BSG.CS.01365 — Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Wakefield, John & Jeremiah Naylor & Co

Found in Connecticut at a colonial cellar hole, 37mm.

9980 / 70 1/2 // ship, .JOHN & JER . TAYLOR & Co.. around

Two separate seals are shown above the left, complete rivet and rove discs with connecting strip, found by Don Bailey and the right, a single rove disc, by Dave wise.

The scratched numbers are believed to refer to a particular order 9980 and a the length of finished cloth 70 1/2 yards.

A further seal found in context has been reported under the title Signed, Sealed and Delivered, February 17, 2017 by Stephanie Grooms Featured Fragment – A Lead Cloth Seal from John Lee Pratt Park By Dr. D. Brad Hatch.

Documented evidence of John & Jeremiah Naylor has been found on page 299, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit: 1814-1815 by John Gallison, 1845, See p.282, which shows the company also traded in Rio de Janerio, Brazil but in this case its goods were captured by the Yankee and carried to Portland, Main. Also on page 57, Historic Sketch of the Parish Church, Wakefield by Joseph Lawson Sisson