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ID - 10
Birth -1806
Death -1806

Gender - Male

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Son of James and Rebecca Duffel, aged 3 months. Not sure if this is 1800 or 1806. Worn off

James is buried in Lynchburg. He was a silversmith by trade well serving as a Revolutionary War Soldier. [1]
There are several references to them in Fredericksburg 1802-1806 and then VH Aug 4, 1807, reported as moving[2]

He was born in 1761 in Bucks Co, PA and died 1835 Lynchburg [3]

Where Duffel learned his trade we do not know; it may have been in Alexandria, for he enlisted in the Revolutionary army from that city. According to Gwathmey, he was a corporal in the 5th and 11th Virginia Regiments of the Continental Line. He is listed in the 1790 census as a resident of Prince George’s Parish, Georgetown District, South Carolina.

The New York Directory for 1801 contains his name with the information that he was to be found at 349 Pearl Street. His eldest child and only son died in New York in 1802, aged six years. Later that same year he moved to Fredericksburg, Va., where his brother, Edward, a merchant, had preceded him.

On October 28, of that year, he thanked the people of Fredericksburg for the encouragement they had given him and announced that he had moved three doors above his former residence, to a tenement of Capt. Mercers.

In February 1804 he announced that a Negro girl had come to his shop and, under the pretense of being sent by a neighboring lady, obtained four pairs of earrings, a breastpin, and a finger-ring. He asked that these be stopped if offered for sale.

He continued to advertise watches, silver, plated ware, jewelry, and guns, until on August 4, 1807, he gave notice that he intended moving from Fredericksburg about the middle of the following month, and offered his stock for sale. Whether he moved at this time or not has not been determined, but his youngest daughter, Elizabeth, was born in Fredericksburg on October 19, 1809. His brother, Edward, had gone to Lynchburg, and here James followed him. The wives of these two brothers were sisters.

In 1810 he bought Lot 13 in Lynchburg and in 1811, Lot 6, as well as some additional land in the city. He was a member of the Lynchburg City Council and in 1814 a director of the Exchange Bank of Virginia. In November 1817, he advertised that he intended to quit his present business and offered his stock for sale and the house in which he lived for rent. Jewelry, silver and plated ware, watches, spectacles, rifles, and shotguns, pistols, swords, epaulets, whips, and canes were for sale at greatly reduced prices until all was sold. On December 3, 1827, he bought a piece of land from William Galt’s executors, to which he added more frontage in 1828. [3]

[4] paid $15 license

Sources

[1] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Duffel&GSiman=1&GSst=48&GRid=34051806&
[2] Virginia Herald  29 Jun 1802.1×1  ;  7 DEC 1804  3×3  ;
[3] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~silversmiths/makers/silversmiths/79719.htm
[4] http://resources.umwhisp.org/Fredericksburg/merchants/fburgml1804.htm

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