1Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 18 April 1791 (Adams Papers)
be so good as to get me a dozen yds of diaper for towels I have not one there, and whatever else you think I stand in immediate want of— I cannot bear to go to a place unprovided, when a little forethought and care would save me much trouble, and I...
2Alexander Hamilton’s Fourth Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
shirtings, coarse towelling, bedticks, hosiery. shirtings, sheetings, toweling,
3Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [5 December 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
...Woolseys, hosiery of Wool, cotton & thread, coarse fustians, jeans and Muslins, check⟨ed⟩ and striped cotton and linen goods, bed ticks, Coverlets and Counterpanes, Tow linens, coarse shirtings, sheetings, toweling and table linen, and various mixtures of wool and cotton, and of Cotton & flax are made in the household way, and in many instances to an extent not only sufficient for the...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 12 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
...the water be put in the Kitchen over night & in the morning let the child be dipped in it head foremost wrapping up his head well & taking him again immediately out, put in flannel & rubbed dry with towels. Immediately upon his being. taken out let him have two tea spoons full of brandy mixed with just enough water to prevent its taking away his breath.
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 7 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
: A stout linen fabric used for toweling (
6From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...did some pannels of that work in the house I lived in in N. York. Would you be so good as to get leave to examine them now, see how their colours stand, and even try whether a towel dipped in soap and water and rubbed on them, will affect them? If you find them stand well, I should be very glad to know of Schneider whether
7To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Remsen, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...have examined the fresco paintings of Schneider in Mr. Bruce’s house, and found them equally fresh and vivid as when first done. They bore this appearance before I tried their durability with a coarse towel dipped in soap suds. In that trial the center pannel, on which was painted a landscape, lost nothing; but another pannel nearly opposite to the door of your bed chamber, on which was...
8Memorandum Books, 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Pd. Robertson for 3 pr. sheets, 3. tablecloths, 15 towels £14–1–3.
9Memorandum Books, 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Gave Petit to pay for 4. doz. towels 12.