1To George Washington from Benjamin Andrews, 14 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You wrote lately to our company of Otis & Andrews, for blue drab cloth, and trimmings of it’s colour, for a Surtout; I am sorry it has not been in their power to procure either; but I take the liberty of sending, and Your Excellency will do me the honor of receiving, a pattern of blue & scarlet, which I happend to have lying by, in my house; with such trimmings, as after writing to several...