既然“旧中国贸易”利润如此诱人，不仅Salem， NY， Boston港口来往中国的船，Baltimore（Captain O'Donell）， Charleston也有。

Nathaniel Russell:

One of Russell’s merchant ships, appropriately named Russell, was the only documented eighteenth-century vessel known to have engaged in the China trade directly from Charleston. Setting sail in the spring of 1796, Russell’s Captain, William Wood, eventually steered the ship into the port of Canton some seven months later. There, he sought the services of Canton’s leading porcelain merchant, Syngchong, from whom he purchased over ten thousand pieces of “Nankeen blue.” Wood and the Russell returned to Charleston a little over one year later, this time with a hold packed full of porcelain of varying shapes, sizes, colors, and patterns. Nathaniel Russell secured an announcement in the South Carolina Gazette stating that his vessel had made port in Charleston carrying a payload “direct from Canton China” that included 37,000 pounds of ceramics for the Carolina market.

It is hard to quantify just how many tons of Chinese goods were brought to Charleston from the 1790s to the 1860s. As for porcelain, one need to look no further than various museum galleries or private homes to rediscover some striking assortments, most with a substantial local provenance. Archaeologically, blue and white Canton porcelain is ubiquitous. Excavations, including those at the Nathaniel Russell House and Aiken-Rhett House, almost always recover handfuls of shards still glazed with its unmistakable style.

-Grahame Long, Director of Museums