As American territory extended westward, many Edgefield potters migrated in the same direction, settling in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. In 1849 Jefferson S. Nash published a notice in the Edgefield Advertiser that he was tentatively planning to leave for Texas in February. Nash himself was not a potter, but rather a farmer and the proprietor of an iron foundry.  However, the 1850 census for the Marion County area lists J. N. Gibbs, born in South Carolina, as living in the house next to Nash. No occupation is cited, but the possibility exists that Gibbs was a potter who brought the Edgefield potting and glazing traditions with him to Texas and produced the pottery for Nash. Nash's storage jar is certainly reminiscent of the forms and glazes so closely identified with the Edgefield district. 

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.