NO. 2092. CATALOGUE OF THE WASHINGTON RELICS— BELOTE. 15 



Annapolis, Maryland, December 23, 1783. Presented to the United 

 States Government by George Washington Parke Custis and placed 

 in the U. S. Patent Office. Transferred to the U. S. National Museum 

 in 1883. Plate 20. Cat. Nos. 92641-43, U.S.N.M. 



Waistcoat and small clothes worn hy Washington. — Waistcoat of 

 buff woolen cloth; collar, front, and pocket flaps and buttons 

 embroidered with blue and yellow silk. Knee breeches of buff silk, 

 and knee breeches of buff cloth. Presented to the United States 

 Government by George Wasliington Parke Custis and placed in 

 the U. S. Patent Office. Transferred to the U. S. National Museum 

 in 1883. Cat. Nos. 92644-46, U.S.N.M. 



Tents used hy Washington during the War of the Revolution} — (1) 

 Sleeping tent roof and sides. — Ends lacking. Made of a single rec- 

 tangular piece of white home-woven linen with a striped design of 

 interwoven parallel lines. Door strip of same material, 51 inches 

 square. Length on ridge pole, 8 feet; roof slant, 6 feet; height of 

 side wall, 6 feet. . Presented to the United States Government by 

 George Wasliington Parke Custis in 1844 and placed in the U. S. 

 Patent Office.^ Transferred to the U. S. National Museum m 1883. 

 Cat. No. 92552, U.S.N.M. 



(2) Marguee tent. — Oval-shaped roof, made of heavy home-woven 

 linen. Edge scalloped and faced with strip of home-woven red 

 flannel. Thirteen seams on ends, seven seams in central piece. 

 Two holes in roof for supporting poles. Twenty guy ropes attached 

 to top. Length on ridge pole, 13 J feet; roof slant, 10 feet; circum- 

 ference, 80 feet. Side wall of same material, rectangular in shape. 

 Height, 5 feet 6 inches; length, 80 feet. Lent by Miss Mary Custis 

 Lee. Cat. No. 2083, U.S.N.M. 



(3) Marquee tent rvof. — Oval in shape Made of home-woven heavy 

 brown woolen material. Length on ridge pole, 13 feet; roof slant, 

 9 feet; circumference, 75 feet. Side wall lacking. Lent by Miss 

 Mary Custis Lee. Cat. No. 2084, U.S.N.M. 



Tent 'poles, 'pegs, and pouches. — (1) Oalc ridgepole, in three sections. 

 Length united, 12 J feet; diameter, 4 inches. Ends of each section 

 protected by heavy iron bands 3| inches long, those on the ends of 

 the middle section projecting beyond the wood and forming sockets 

 for the ends of the next section. Lent by Miss Mary Custis Lee. 

 Cat. No. 2082, U.S.N.M. 



(2) Oalc upright pole. — In two sections. Ends of each section pro- 

 tected with heavy iron bands. Diameter, 4 inches; length, 12 feet. 

 Lent by Miss Mary Custis Lee. Cat. No. 2082, U.S.N.M. 



• On the occasion of the visit of Lafayette to the city of Baltimore in 1824, one of these tents was taken 

 to that city by the owner, G. W. P. Custis, and having been set up was used by the members of the Society 

 of the Cincinnati at a reception tendered Lafayette. See the American and Commercial Daily Advertiser 

 of Baltimore for Sept. 13, 14, 16, and Oct. 9, 1824. 



2 It is probable that while in the field this small tent of very light material was set up within a marquee 

 and used by the commander in chief as a sleeping compartment, and hence its name. See Lossing's Mount 

 Vernon and Its Associations, p. 138. 



