Notes
This standing desk is said to have been crafted in a workshop at Red Hill. Patrick Henry likely used the desk at Red Hill during his lifetime.
Patrick Henry's widow, Dorothea Dandridge Henry Winston (1757–1831), spent her last days with her daughter, Sallie Butler Henry Scott (1780–1856). Sallie Butler Henry married Alexander Scott (1769–1819) in 1813 and lived with her husband at their plantation across the river from Red Hill at Seven Islands. When Henry's widow came to live with the Scotts, she likely brought many of her furniture and household items with her, including this desk.
The Scotts inherited the standing desk. It was passed down to Alexander and Sallie Henry Scott's son, Patrick Henry Scott (1815–1865). Charles Yancey Scott (1860–1931) inherited the desk from his father, Patrick Henry Scott, and thus was a great-grandson of Patrick Henry. In 1943, the Scott family donated the desk to the Patrick Henry Memorial Library in Brookneal, Virginia. In 1975, the desk was transferred from the library to Red Hill at the request of Mrs. William P. Williams, then a trustee of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation.
The Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation received the desk as a transfer from the Patrick Henry Memorial Library in 1975.