There are far more frequent mentions and advertisements of china in old New England newspapers than in other American papers of the same years. The southern publications of colonial times that I have seen contained no announcements of the sale of china. None appeared bearing date until after the Revolutionary War. And it is plain, from the evidence of inventories, “enroulments,” wills, and newspapers of the eighteenth century, that porcelain was far more plentiful in New England than elsewhere in America at the same date. Mr. Prime says, “Few of the people of Revolutionary times had seen porcelain;” but when it had been advertised in every New England newspaper; had been sold in grocers’, milliners’, chemists’, dry-goods, saddlers’, and hardware shops; had been displayed at the printers’ and book-shops and writing-schools in every town of any size throughout New England; and sold in considerable quantities by all the little Boston shopkeepers—the Amorys, Waldos, Brimmers, Adamses, Sheaffes, and Boylstons, I fancy all New England good wives must have owned a few pretty pieces. Doubtless the wealthiest Virginians of colonial times also had some china. It is not, however, named in Baltimore inventories until after the year 1700. Nor was it plentiful in New York; one of the earliest mentions of china in New York is in the list of the possessions of wealthy Cornelius Stienwerck, “Ten pieces of china dishes or porcelain £4.” In August, 1748, the _New York Weekly Journal_ contained its first announcement of the sale of china—“A choice parcel of China Ware just imported to be sold at Wholesale. Enquire of the Printer.” Now, the “Printer” at that date was a woman, the Widow Zenger, wife of the former owner of the newspaper, and with her assumption of the printing and editing business came various feminine advertisements such as this of china ware, others of mantuas and hair-powder, and of “bonnet-papers,” which she cut and made and sold in large numbers; but this china sale was certainly exceptional in New York at that date.