Loaves and Fishes, Mugs and Wishes

Historians at Hunter Research patched together a sketch of William Richards’s life through deeds, surrogate records, newspaper advertisements, broadsides, and the artifacts they uncovered. Many of the archaeological finds are displayed at Trenton’s Old Barracks Museum, which borrowed part of the exhibition’s title, Remarkable for His Industry: William Richards, Trade & Manufactory in Revolutionary Trenton, from Richards’s obituary. Drawing on the shards from Richards’s pottery, the Old Barracks Museum has also reproduced a limited number of stoneware objects, including tankards, porringers, and ointment pots.

Old Barracks Museum
Barrack Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
609.777.3599
www.barracks.org