"The John Hinds Pottery / Kiln Site in Holland, MA"

Name: "The John Hinds Pottery / Kiln Site in Holland, MA"
Start: 2024-11-21T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Publick House Historic Inn

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Publick House Historic Inn | Sturbridge, MA

Doug Lyons and Mike Forand will share the discovery, and archeological exploration of the site of John Hinds pottery workshop, and kiln in Holland, MA.
John Hinds is a previously undocumented 18th-century New England redware potter (ca. 1714—ca 1793), living and working in South Woodstock CT (ca 1740–1750) and in Holland/South Brimfield MA (1750–1793). He is mentioned several times in Lovering’s History of the Town of Holland as a potter. His last mention as potter is in 1789. He was consistently documented as a potter in land deeds for some 39 years.
Lyons and Forand worked with Old Sturbridge Village for about four seasons at the Hinds site during which we recovered an abundance of artifacts, and uncovered the kiln base. They have generously made their documentation and artifacts available to us for the presentation.
No other contemporary potter living in Hinds’ locale has yet been identified. The earliest nearby potters are the well-known Thomas Bugbee, born 1793 South Woodstock CT, Hervy Brooks b. 1779 Goshen CT, and James Moore d. 1829 in Brimfield/Holland MA.