This linen napkin has a history of service to the U.S. consul to the Azores. United States diplomatic relations with Portugal and Great Britain were managed on Faial Island by three generations of the Dabney family. Charles William Dabney succeeded his father, John Bass Dabney, as U.S. consul in 1826, and this napkin may be from a set of table linens purchased around that time. The makers, Coulson’s Manufactory in northeastern Ireland, were a multi-generational business. Their famous linen damask weavers attracted patronage throughout the Atlantic world.