1Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 17 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
...you to get me a peice of the plain Russia towelling. ...toweling take a receipt, for as thus “...
2Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 18 April 1791 (Adams Papers)
...as to get me a dozen yds of diaper for towels I have not one there, and whatever else you...
3Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 13 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
...would whiten me a cotton sheet or two & some towels which are in a trunk in the Garret. let...
41782 Oct. 27. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
...Chairs, and you are furnished with hot linnen, Towels &c. There is a Bell which you ring...
5[October 1782] (Adams Papers)
...Chairs, and you are furnished with hot linnen, Towels &c. There is a Bell which you ring...
6John Quincy Adams, Josiah Quincy, III, Inventory of John Adams’s Estate, September 1826 (Adams Papers)
11 do Towels
...to a sudden curent of air sett fire to a towel which was thrown over a Basket and in a few...
8Inventory of Deacon John Adams’ Estate, 9 October 1761 (Adams Papers)
9 Sheets 3 table Cloths 3 Towels 4 Pellow Cases
9To George Washington from Ephraim Blaine, 14 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
...it best to forward it and the Diaper for Toweling whole in Order that it may be made proper...
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 7 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
: A stout linen fabric used for toweling (
11Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August [1817], document 2 in a group of … (Jefferson Papers)
states that the towels previously sent were “a ‘heartsome sight’” but worries...
...two drawers to hold water for washing with a hand towel....pitcher for washing and a hand towel
13Burgess Griffin to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
the table Clothe & towels war found Since
14From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 12 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
...out, put in flannel & rubbed dry with towels. Immediately upon his being. taken out let...
15Alexander Hamilton’s Fourth Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
shirtings, coarse towelling, bedticks, hosiery. shirtings, sheetings, toweling,
16Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [5 December 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
..., Tow linens, coarse shirtings, sheetings, toweling and table linen, and various mixtures...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 10 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...exactly recollect what they were but sheets, towels counterpanes and tea china were I think...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...their colours stand, and even try whether a towel dipped in soap and water and rubbed on...
19Memorandum Books, 1767 (Jefferson Papers)
Dowlas was a coarse linen fabric used for towels and shirts (
20Memorandum Books, 1769 (Jefferson Papers)
Gave Jupiter to pay for making towels 2/.
21Memorandum Books, 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
.... makg. 2. pr. sheets 8/ do. 12 towels 12/.
22Memorandum Books, 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Gave Petit to pay for 4. doz. towels 12.
23Memorandum Books, 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...Robertson for 3 pr. sheets, 3. tablecloths, 15 towels £14–1–3.
24To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 2 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
...said his practice was to wash with a coarse towel of a foot square, then rub dry with...
25Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
...all our house-linnen, sheets, Table cloaths, Towels, some coarse linnen, & a piece of...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Remsen, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...before I tried their durability with a coarse towel dipped in soap suds. In that trial...
11 towels
...without inconvenience, speak for a piece of Diaper towelling, for me? they make it so much...
...; the screws and key, are also sewed in the towel, I hope they will do no injury. the volume...
30III-A-2. Account of Items in the Estate Used by Martha Custis, 1759 (Washington Papers)
24 pillow Cases & Towels99 Napkins and Towels