Wm. H. Davis & Son
ca. 1850

The organ was moved into the new church at an unknown date, for which it was too small. It was replaced with a new unit organ by the Delaware Organ Co. in 1967 and the organ was given to a priest in Maryland, but probably never installed. It was given to the Smithsonian Institution in 1968 and was put on display in the musical instrument exhibit. This exceptional collection lasted until the mid-1990s, when the collection was replaced with an exhibit based on computers and electronic technology. The entire instrument was placed in deep storage and has been inaccessible to the present day. Any request to see any of the organs in the collection is shut down by the curators of the storage facility. It is rumored the instruments will be moved to another facility that hopefully will at least make them accessible to historians even if the curators continue to state the collection will never be displayed in public again. It's too bad the government won't put them on loan to public institutions, and it's a disgrace our most famous museum, considered America's attic, doesn't view musical instruments an important enough part of American culture to be seen on permanent display.

Repaired in 1912 and 1947. Used until 1967. Moved to Bethesda, MD, then to Smithsonian, Washington, DC in 1969.