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Hi, I'm working on a book on the early artisans of Petersburg of interest is the Badger family, of interest are the following:
Badger, Joseph, Painter, “Color Shop” Proprietor, b.?; d.1803, m. Ann _______, he worked in Petersburg from 1787 to 1803
In 1787 “Jos. Badger” paid taxes on two black servants over the age of sixteen and one under. By 1789 his Petersburg coach making shop was in operation. That year, he and Deveraux Jarrat Manly, a coach maker and wheelwright, were called upon to appraise the estate of Jones Allen Dean. In 1791 Badger placed advertisements in Petersburg and Williamsburg newspapers announcing the opening of a “Retail Color Shop… at the upper end of Old Street, near the tanyard, where country gentlemen and others, may be furnished with all kinds of paints used in common, either in their natural state, or prepared for the brush.” Badger, who simultaneously maintained his “Coach and Sign Painting” business, also supplied “linseed, and train oil, putty, window glass, and paint brushes,” as well as a number of rather specialized services such as custom-made hat cases and umbrella repairing. Certainly, the glazing supplies, paints, and clear finishes available at Badger’s shop would have been of use to area Cabinet-makers and Windsor chair makers.
In 1793 Badger, along with a number of others, was fined four hundred pounds of tobacco for failing to appear when called for Grand Jury duty. The assessment speaks strongly of the agrarian orientation of Virginia’s economy. In August of that year, Badger took a “Poor Orphan Boy” named George Gilmore as an apprentice. The young man had formerly been apprenticed to Robert Scott, occupation unknown. Badger continued his coach making and decorating activities, including the sale of chariots, coaches, phaetons, and double chairs, some of which were imported directly from Philadelphia. By 1794, the partnership of Badger & Shiphard was formed and advertised its ability to provide “Coach & Sign Painting” and “Coach Japaning and Gilding.” The firm also offered house painting and paper hanging.
In 1801 Badger became involved in yet another coachmaking partnership, called “Badger & Leath.”
The 1810 Census lists Mrs. Ann Badger, with one son (under 10) and two (10-15); one daughter (10-15), one (16-23), and one (26-44); she listed as 45 and over; plus two slaves living near a number of free black families.
Ann Badger stayed on the property and in 1813 an insurance appraisal estimated that the nearly demolished “old Painter’s Shop” was not worth $100.
Badger, William H., Cabinet-maker, b. abt. 1798 / 1800, Petersburg; d. post 1870, Petersburg, worked in Petersburg from 1820 until 1870’s. His wife was Elizabeth D. Wells, who he married in Chesterfield, VA, May 31, 1822.
Sycamore Street shop, circa 1825
A very rare William Badger stenciled label (signature) was found an a Windsor chair:
Wm H. BADGER
Cabinet Manufacture
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PETERSBURG
William H. Badger was listed as a cabinet maker in the 1850 U.S. Census for Petersburg as age 50, with a net worth of $3,000 with his wife Eliza, age 47, son William, 18 and daughter Eliza 13. In the 1870 U.S. Census he noted as age 72, living in the 4th ward of the city of Petersburg as an “undertaker,” alone with his wife Eliza D, 65, housekeeper, and Lewis, 22. William H. Badger, Jr. was later a cabinet maker in Stagg Creek, Ashe, NC.
DeJernatt (Degarnet, Degarnett, DeJarnette), John, was an active cabinet-maker in Petersburg from 1806 to 1827, b. October 18, 1766 in Petersburg, Virginia; the son of Christopher and Ann ______: d. December 30, 1830. He was of French descent whose great-g father Jean (John) DeJarnatt (DeJarnette), (1680-1765), a Huguenot, fled La Rochelle, France to escape the turmoil created by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Arriving in America around 1699, DeJarnette first settled in Manakin Town, an area assigned to Huguenot immigrants located south of the James River near Richmond. John DeJernatt married December 12, 1810 Mary Ann Badger, the daughter of Joseph Badger and Nancy Ann ______. The children of John and Mary Ann were (1) Christopher Henry DeJournett, b. July 15, 1815 in Petersburg, d. May 30 1897 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. Christopher was also a skilled wood worker. (2) Mary Ann DeJournett, b. abt 1817 in Petersburg, d. 1896 in Cabarras Co., NC. (3) A third child, b. in 1819, apparently died in infancy and remained unnamed.
John DeJermatt’s Old Street cabinetmaking shop was well established by 1806 when he thanked the public “for the encouragement he has received in the line of his profession,” and informed them that he was “now so situated as to be enabled to carry on the cabinet making business in the most extensive manner… He has the best workmen and materials that can be procured, and will execute orders to any amount, at the shortest notice.”[1]
He found in the 1810 Dinwiddie, Petersburg U.S. Census living amongst one free male between 10 & 15; two free males between 16 & 25; two free males between 26 & 44; one other free person and two slaves. Curiously, DeJernatt did not appear in area records again until 1813 when he insured “three buildings on the south side of Old Street in the Town of Petersburg.” Located on lot 30. The buildings were described as a two-story wooden “dwelling house” with adjoining sheds on either side, a large “cabinet shop and lumber house” with a stone first floor and wood-framed second floor, and a wood-framed “Cabinet Ware room” – a considerable amount of personal property for a Petersburg-furniture-maker at that time.
Over the next five years, DeJernatt became involved in a variety of business ventures in addition to cabinetmaking. In 1815, for example, he insured two adjoining brick buildings situated on lot 7, on the north side of Old Street, one identified as “Jno. Pollard’s dwelling and saddler’s shop,” and the other as a dwelling house and “currying shop” occupied by DeJernatt and Brewer & Co. Interesting, each building was insured for the substantial sum of $4,000. And no mention was made of any cabinet business being conducted on the site. Later that year DeJernatt “resumed the business of a Cabinet Maker in the new brick house on Old Street, fronting Petersburg warehouse,” on part of lot 7. >From this new location he announced for sale “the most fashionable and useful articles in the cabinet line.” In 1815 DeJernatt not only paid $120 rent for his “Mansion” on lot 30 on Water Street, but also another $20 in rent to William Boswell for the portion of lot 7 on Water Street. After 1816, however, he was not taxed for lot 30, an indication that he may have no longer owned the property and had moved both his residence and business to Water Street. DeJernatt was assessed $1,000. for his portion of lot 7, an increase apparently incurred by the new three story brick building. A survey of DeJernatt’s tax records up to this time clearly indicates his progressive economic success. In 1815, for example, he had six black members in his household, possibly shop employees, and owned a riding chair, a gold watch, a wide variety of mahogany case furniture, and “gilt framed pictures.”
By 1815 DeJernatt also operated a ‘Cabinet Maker’s Shop” in Richmond near James Taylor’s Cabinet Shop and ware room,” one of the few examples of a branch cabinetmaking operation in the Petersburg area. One year later, DeJernatt apparently traded his part of lot 7 in return for Taylor’s Richmond dwelling house and cabinet shop. Tax records indicate that by 1817 Taylor was occupying his new portion of the brick building on lot 7, property later offered at a “public vendue” in 1818 to satisfy debts Taylor owed to Pulliam & Swann. By 1819 Samuel Swann was recorded as renting this portion of lot 7. Swann probably was the son of wealthy, Richmond-based cabinetmaker who in 1796 was involved another of Petersburg’s branch cabinetmaking firms, called “Swann & Ellis” – see Ellis). By 1816, DeJernatt portion of lot 7 in Petersburg included a “kitchen & Lumber house” as well as a “plaster’s shop.” It was adjacent to the “Cabinet Maker’s Shop & Ware Room” that John Raymond and John Ventus rented from Betsey Allegrue (see Ventus, John and Raymond, John) That year, DeJernatt gave notice of a runaway apprentice, an eighteen-year-old named Edward Major.
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However, by 1824 he was so deeply in debt to a number of creditors that an indenture relinquishing all of his personal property was entered into the Petersburg Husting Court records. Listed as the possessions of “John and Christopher DeJernatt, cabinet makers,” the property included the estate of their deceased father, Christopher DeJernatt of Rowan County, North Carolinas well as all of his “personal estate.” [2]
His son, Christopher Henry DeJarnette, was a skilled woodworker. The pulpit furniture, at the Rocky River Presbyterian Church was crafted by him around 1860. It is still in use today by the congregation. Concord, NC.
Interesting, the reconstructed rostrum of the Old Blandford Church c.1735, was later built in 1903, for the, Petersburg Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy was made and installed by John William De Jarnatt, (1874-1942,) master wood-craftsman and native of Petersburg, almost certainly a descendant of the earlier DeJarnatt.
A plaque was later placed on the rostrum on October 8, 1978, by his children William Jamison De Jarnette and Ruth Vaughan De Jarnette Tipton, in loving memory of their father.[3]
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[1] Petersburg Republican, 23 April 1807.
[2] From "Southside Virginia Genealogies" Christopher was a beneficiary of the will his aunt, Mary Ford Dupuy, who wrote in Nottoway County, VA in 1793, and was then the widow of John Bartholomew Dupuy (1790). In 1780 Christopher was granted 181 acres in Prince Edward County which listed Christopher Dejernatt head of a household of 6 in 1785. He was probably the Christopher Dejarnett in Prince Edward County who provided 200 pounds of beef to the Continental Army and was taxed on five horses and five slaves there in 1800.
[3] John William DeJarnette’s wife was Ruth J. _____, according to the 1910 census a son in law, James L Patrick,18,of NC resided with them.
The above is a rough draft from my book which I hope to complete next year, I would greatly welcome any addition data concerning them. Location of known furniture examples and family relics, related relationships &c.
Sincerely,
Ronald R. Seagrave, PhD, retired
10860 Quaker Road
Dinwiddie, VA 23841-3041
Email: seagraver@hughes.net
Please check out my Blog: http://dinwiddiecountyhistory.blogspot.com
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