John Janvier’s trade label is inside the waist of this clock. It indicates that Janvier made this clock shortly after his Philadelphia apprenticeship, when he established a cabinetmaking business at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. This label dates the clock as the earliest known example of Delaware’s soon-to-be most famous furniture-maker. John Janvier settled a few years later in Cantwell’s Bridge, now Odessa, Delaware, where he enjoyed an illustrious career while training the next two generations of Delaware’s finest cabinetmakers.