Thomas Daniels Archaeological Site

An Early 18th-Century Connecticut Homestead

Sources of Additional Information

Image of enameled glass tumbler with bird motif

Fragment of an enameled glass tumbler, with bird-motif decoration.

Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Everyday Life. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1977.
Gordon, Robert B. American Iron, 1607-1900. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Harper, Ross K., and Bruce Clouette. Report: Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery Program. The 1712-ca. 1770s Daniels Homestead (Site No. 152-128). Storrs, CT: Archaeological and Historical Services, Inc., 2007. Available at the Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Hempstead, Joshua. Diary of Joshua Hempstead 1711-1758. Collections of the New London County Historical Society, Volume I. New London, 1901. Also available online.
Isham, Norman M., and Albert F. Brown. Early Connecticut Houses: An Historical and Architectural Study. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1965. Originally published in 1900. Also available online.
Kelly, J. Frederick. Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. Originally published in 1924.
Knight, Sarah Kemble. The Journal of Madam Knight. A Treacherous Journey by Horseback from Boston to New York in the Year 1704. New York: Theodore Dwight, 1825. Reprinted 1992 by Applewood Books, Chester, CT. Also available online.
Light, John D. "The Archaeology of Blacksmith Shops," Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, vol. 10, no. 1 (1984): 55-68.
Nylander, Jane C. Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Russell, Howard S. A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1982.
St. George, Robert Blair. Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Watkins, Laura Woodside. Early New England Potters and Their Wares. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.

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