Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Pipes
Adam Stag purchased six pipes at the Colden store on this day, 250 years-ago.
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| Clay pipes. Image courtesy of de.wikipedia.org |
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This article is one in a series of a daily accountings of Colden Store transactions. Be sure you read the first installment for an introduction to the store. You should also read this article which appeared in the Journal of the Orange County Historical Society.
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Unlike the 'sticks' of mohair discussed in the prior blog, for which scant evidence is found in archaeological digs, the ubiquitous clay pipe is one of the most common colonial artifacts.
Tobacco was snorted as 'snuff' and probably chewed as well, but smoking of tobacco in pipes was very common. Colden sold over 1200 of the fragile 'little ladles', as they were called by the English. No wonder their clay fragments are often found when digging in the dumps of colonial farms.
These pipes were likely imported from England, but pipe manufacture had been going on in Virginia and Maryland for over 100 years.
Because tens of thousands of pipes have been found, there are copious publications on this topic. The Williamsburg write-up is a good place to start.
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