A Desk With No Number, The French Connection, Part Three

Henry Flagg French

This unnumbered fac-simile was given by Henry Flagg French to his daughter Sarah Flagg French Bartlett, presumably as an 1880 Christmas present. It was passed down in her family until it was donated to a rummage and ultimately donated in 1956 to the Concord Antiquarian Society which is now the Concord Museum where the desk remains in their collection.

This desk has the typical photographic reproduction of the original affidavit and is signed and dated by the Treasury Department cabinet maker James A. Degges, similar to the desk numbered six in the Virginia Museum of Culture and History. It is unclear whether this copy has a secondary label.

I have yet to find an image of Sarah so I'm using one of her father until I can find one to replace it with.

Thank you to the staff at the Concord Museum for their generous assistance with my research.

Images courtesy of the Concord Museum