On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, the General Court (i.e., the Massachusetts legislature) wrote to General Washington that

we apprehend there is an absolute Necessity of our providing Coats for the Men & this Govermt having engag’d the same to our Troops a Part of which are already provided by the several Towns in this Govermt in Consequence of.

Source: “Massachusetts General Court to George Washington, 18 August 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0224. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, pp. 323–324.]