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When the Hunter research group did the first of their two archaeological digs beginning in 1997 through 1999 a surprise awaited them that had never before been proved.The United Glass Company in Allowaystown in Salem County better known as Wistarburgh had in fact produced a small amount of Blue to light amethyst glass.This was not cullet as moils of blue glass was found suggesting local manufacture and not cullet.The color blue was reserved for tableware not common bottles in the colonial days.Most of the blue glass produced was not for the affluent population but for the common citizenry as it was their version of fine tableware.On a grassy knoll in a hay field behind the Mansion House Caspar Wistar built lies the Remnants of Wistarburgh which thrived for 43 years from 1739 to 1782.
Here is the map plan depicting the various areas of glass shards cullet and ceramic pot pieces.Wistarburgh nowadays is a farm pasture
and a hay field.The book and picture is courtesy of Dale Murschell Wistarburgh Historian. at the bottom circled in blue is where the blue glass was found during the dig.Hunter research returned a second time in 2003 for a more extensive study.Margarate Wistar Haines Caspar's daughter married a very prominent Philadelphian Reuben Haines.When Caspar Wistar passed away in 1752 quite a bit of comemrative glass was made at the glass works for his children and their wives.Margarate Wistar received from her father Caspar at the time of his death comemrative plates,bowls, dishes,tumblers, and candlesticks.This glass is in the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.Circled in blue at the bottom of the map is where the blue glass was found.
Here is the map plan depicting the various areas of glass shards cullet and ceramic pot pieces.Wistarburgh nowadays is a farm pasture
and a hay field.The book and picture is courtesy of Dale Murschell Wistarburgh Historian. at the bottom circled in blue is where the blue glass was found during the dig.Hunter research returned a second time in 2003 for a more extensive study.Margarate Wistar Haines Caspar's daughter married a very prominent Philadelphian Reuben Haines.When Caspar Wistar passed away in 1752 quite a bit of comemrative glass was made at the glass works for his children and their wives.Margarate Wistar received from her father Caspar at the time of his death comemrative plates,bowls, dishes,tumblers, and candlesticks.This glass is in the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.Circled in blue at the bottom of the map is where the blue glass was found.
