[Note:A New York merchant and head of the firm of Daniel Parker & Co., contractors for supplying the Army with provisions. ]
Newburgh January 22, 1783.
Sir: It did not occur to me at the moment you were so obliging as to profer your Services at Boston that I was in want of as much superfine Buff Cloth (not of the yellow kind) as would make me a Vest Coat Breechs. and facings to a Coat; and that It was my wish to get as much Buff-Silk-Shag as would line a Coat and Vest-Coat. Inclosed I send a sample of the kind wanted, and shall thank you for procurg. and bg. these things with you.
Mrs. Washington will thank you for getting for her Six yards of very fine Jacanet Muslin, Yard and half wide. The cost of these things shall be paid upon your arrival in Camp. 95 I am etc.
[Note:On January 22 Washington wrote to David Henley, formerly colonel of one of the Sixteen Additional Continental regiments: "If Mr. Parker should have left Boston I will thank you for opening the inclosed Letter to him and complying with the Contents of it.…I would be glad to get the Articles wrote for as soon as possible." This draft is in the Washington Papers . ]