This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Larkins, Devers, Surls, Longnecker, Campbell, Smith, Bathgate, Bloodhart Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TCC.2ACE/371.366.1 Message Board Post: I have a copy of a newspaper article "How James Larkins Became an Expert Potter" printed in The Review (East Liverpool OH) on 10/20/1938 that references the Newells. Newell excerpts from the article: John Newell, James Larkins, Edward Larkins and Joseph Larkins built a pottery known as the Virginia in 1845 on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River (where the town of Newell now stands). This was not far from the blockhouse erected by Daniel Greathouse, an early settler and Indian fighter. Clay used from the pottery was taken from the farm of John Newell. It further states that Hugh Newell, a son of John Newell, took much of the pottery ware down the river for sale. Supposedly spending so much time in southern states, and particularly New Orleans, that he learned to speak French fluently. The pottery went under during the Civil War - the southern buyers considered it too far north and the northerners ignored it because it was more or less in a southern state. In 1938 John Newell (grandson of John Newell) is listed as president of the Hancock County Building and Loan Co. in Chester. ********** James Larkins was my great great grandfather. We know little to nothing about him or his pottery, except what is in the article. He apprenticed with Edwin Bennett, brother of James Bennett who was the founder of the very first pottery in East Liverpool. Any information about James Larkins or the pottery would be appreciated.