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    Here are some clothing/uniform/personal items issued to the Regiment at Fort George in Maine:

    Linen
    Blue strouting
    Linen sheeting
    Reg’t buttons, w thread, silk& twists
    Striped Holland linen
    White men’s silk stockings
    Check handkerchiefs
    Black hair ribbon
    Printed or bordered handkerchiefs
    Hair powder, one half scented
    Paisley Gauze
    Hard pomatum
    Military shoes
    Cakes, patent blacking
    Fine shoes and boots
    Razors
    Women’s and children’s leather shoes
    Russia drabs
    Thread of different kinds
    Huck-a-bag for towels
    Pins, needles and ribbons
    Russia sheeting
    Buckles
    Clothes brushes
    Felt hats
    Shoe buckle brushes
    Canvass hats
    Tooth brushes
    Military socks
    White jane, sorted
    Round white hats
    Brown jane for breeches
      Kilmarnock gloves
    Manchester pattercoats
    Kilmarnock caps
    Plain & striped demity for waistcoats
    Soldier white shirts, ruffled fronts
    Buckram
    Check shirts
    Military cock’d castor hats, fine
    Worsted cold stockings
    Black round hats
    White worsted cold stocking
    Napery (for diapers?)
    Thread stockings
    White flannel
    Tartan for plaids, hose and kilts
    English & Russia duck
    Bonnets, garters and stocks
    Onasburgh
    Printed cotton Cambrick
    Printed linen
    Manchester stuff for gowns, vests, etc
    . Ivory and horn combs
    Shirts, ruffled ready made of linen
    Millinery, sorted
    Irish linen
    Superfine wool scarlet cloth
    Superfine wool yellow cloth
    Blue wool cloth for Officers great coats
    Superfine uniform and scarlet rattinetts
    Silver single button hole lace
    Silver epaulets


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