1. Diaper Towel.
2General Orders, 14 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
, Ser. 5). A receipt of this date signed by Hannah Stewart records $20 paid by “His Excelly Genl Washington to Hannah Stewart” for “making & marking of table Cloths towels” and includes the note, “Recd the above Contents in full” (Revolutionary War Accounts, Vouchers, and Receipted Accounts 1, 1776–1780,
3To George Washington from Ephraim Blaine, 14 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
...of Wine and some other Articles which will be forwarded next Week—should
have had the Table Linnen made up but not knowing the length of your Tables or Marquis thought it best to forward it and the Diaper for Toweling whole in Order that it may be made proper sizes.
11 towels
5[October 1782] (Adams Papers)
...the Tuilleries. You are shewn into a little Room, which has a large Window looking over the River into the Tuilleries. There is a Table, a Glass and two Chairs, and you are furnished with hot linnen, Towels &c. There is a Bell which you ring when you want any Thing.
61782 Oct. 27. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
...the Tuilleries. You are shewn into a little Room, which has a large Window looking over the River into the Tuilleries. There is a Table, a Glass and two Chairs, and you are furnished with hot linnen, Towels &c. There is a Bell which you ring when you want any Thing.