terprises tended to be small. 1 Votes of the Assembly, V, 255. 2 Coxe, View, p. 313. 3 Lancaster County Assessment Lists, 1773, Public Records, Harrisburg Pa. 4 Cazenova Journal,p. 75. 5 Minutes of the Select Council of the City of Lancaster, Feb. 22, 1836. 6 Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept. 11. 1760; American

Vereinten Staaten, IV, 684. 2 Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XVII, 454-465; Lancaster Borough Assess- ment, 1814. 3 Enumeration of the Taxable Inhabitants Residing in the County of Lan- caster, 1800, Public Records, Harrisburg, Pa. (cited hereafter as: Lancaster County Taxables, 1800); Coxe, View, p

respectively.1] By the early nineteenth century, the county was one of the chief pottery centers in Pennsylvania, only Philadelphia City and Philadelphia County having larger numbers of works. The local industry reached its peak about 1810 when fifteen potteries produced more than $10,000 worth of clayware. 12

. Hist. Records Survey, Inventory of the County Archives of Pennsylvania, Number 36, Lancaster County, pp. 7-10. 3 Isaac Weld, Jr., Travels Through the States of North America, I, 120, 123; Cazenove Journal, p. 72; Lancaster Journal, Sept. 14, 1804. 4 T. F. Gordon, A Gazetteer of the State of