Gottfried Aust

He was the first master potter in the Moravian community in today's Old Salem, North Carolina.

He settled in Bethlehem, Province of Pennsylvania, working for master potter Michael Odenwald.

[2] He moved to Bethabara, Province of North Carolina, part of the Wachovia Tract, in October 1755, shortly after the Moravian Church expanded to the American South from Pennsylvania.

[2] Future Salem master mason Johann Gottlob Krause was orphaned by the age of two, and he was adopted Aust and Felicitas Grosch.

[4] Historians have described Aust as "grouchy, ill tempered, crusty, of a choleric nature, irascible, opinionated, and independent".

One of Aust's earthenware teapots, with slip decoration, created between 1756 and 1771.