American Toby Jug Museum 

Eleazer Wheelock toby jug designed by Lorna Bailey and modeled by Anthony Cartlidge, and produced by Old Ellgreave Pottery of Burslem, England, in a 1998 limited edition of 150. Eleazar Wheelock (1711-1779) was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in present-day Columbia, Connecticut, for 35 years before founding Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He had tutored Samson Occom, a Mohegan who became a Presbyterian minister and the second Native American to publish writings in English. Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock founded and ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. The college was primarily for the sons of American colonists. Occom, featured as the handle of this jug, was Dartmouth's first fundraiser, traveling to England to seek financial support for the school. The book Wheelock sits on, "Gradus ad Parnassum" by Jesuit Paul Aler and published in 1686, was a thesaurus of synonyms, epithets, verses and phrases in classical poetic usage.