24651From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, 19 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Custis, to whom I have spoken on the subject very much approves of your administring upon Mr Custis’s Estate and thinks, as I do, that you had better undertake it alone, than jointly with her—If it is necessary to have a Guardian appointed to the Children before the Administration is compleated, & the Estate divided It is much my wish that you (as the Natural friend and nearest relation...
24652To George Washington from Richard Bowen to Bartholomew Dandridge, 12 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
As above is the acct for advertising the President’s farms. your remitting the amount per post will much oblige. If you have opportunities to Alexandria, it may be lodged in the hands of Mr McRea, post master, who will send it on by the rider to this place (Anthony Moore) whose receipt in my behalf shall be sufficient. Am, Sir, your hble Sert ALS , DLC:GW . This letter has “Martinsburg Augt...
24653From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, 18 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 5th of last Month came safe to my hands—at this place; in the vicinity of which the Army is cortored. I am fully perswaded, from all Accts, that in Posey you have to deal with a most consummate villain; and from your own that you have pursuaded the most prudent method of managing him, and for obtaining that justice wch is due to Mr Custis’s Estate. I am clear in Sentiment...
24654Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 20 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit the enclosed letter to the President of the U.S. from Major Gaither—dated 23d May 93. I am Dear Sir Your humble Servt ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Another writer added the phrase containing the date of Henry Gaither’s letter to Knox. Gaither, writing from Fort Fidius in Georgia, reported that residents of the Georgia frontier were fleeing their homes in fear of an Indian...
24655Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Be so good as to submit to the President of the United States the letter of Genl Chapin, with the accompanying speeches of the cheifs of the six nations at Buffaloe Creek on the 7th ultimo. Yours ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . In his letter to Knox of 25 Feb., written at Canandaigua, N.Y., Israel Chapin wrote: “Inclosed are the proceedings of a Council holden at Buffaloe Creek, the 7th of this...
24656From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 3 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lear informs me the President has declined, finally, to take any part of the furniture in the Green drawing room—and that you will be requested to have the lustre in the middle of it packed up & sent round to this place. If the latter should not have taken place before this letter reaches your hands, let it be sent to Mrs Morris, who I beg will receive it as a present; and to whom I will...
24657From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 14 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
We have not precisely fixed the day on which to commence our Journey for Philadelphia, but I expect, if nothing unforeseen happens to prevent it, to be in that City on, or about the first day of next m⟨onth.⟩ I request therefore that every thing necessary to be done in or about the house may be compleated before we arrive: Painting especially. It is my wish to leave the tenement in good...
24658From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 30 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
I mentioned to the President to-day the request of Mr Boudinot that the President would sign 50 diplomas for the New Jersey Cincinnati. The President thought he had signed that number during the late session of Congress. The inclosed papers will show that General Knox was to request it: but I suppose the blanks were never sent to the President. For I now find in this office one bundle...
24659From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 3 December 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18th of June has been duly received, and gave us the first certain account of your arrival in Holland, which we received with pleasure. My family are much as you left them, and my avocations being altogether of a domestic nature, I concern myself little in matters beyond my outer Inclosures; indeed I find enough to do within them, for upon a more critical examination of my...
24660Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 11 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States, the Letter from the Governor of Virginia and the proposed Answer thereto —The idea of the firing of the Dedalus has been communicated by the Secretary of State. Yours sincerely LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from Henry Lee to Knox probably was that of 5 Feb., in which Lee expressed concern about the presence of “two...
24661Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 14 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War prays Mr Dandridge to lay before the President, the reports No. 1. 2. 3 & 4, for the two Houses of Congress. No. 5, on the frigates I shall myself present to the President in perhaps half an hour. No. 6. on the fortifications will require a further examination; but will be ready to-morrow morning. The reports of the Directors of the mint will be ready to send in this...
24662From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 13 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary has this moment received Mr Dandridge’s note of this morning, enquiring whether the Secretary had come to any resolution on Govr Mifflin’s letters &c. The answer is in the negative. The Secy received that letter &c. last Saturday evening; and to expedite the departure of Capt. DeButts, was yesterday engaged in draughting the form of a long treaty to aid General Wayne in his...
24663From Henry Helmuth and William Hendel to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 16 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
We beg the particular favor of You to deliver the inclosed petitions to His Excellency the President of the United States, and You will oblige very much thereby. Your humble and Obedient Servants ALS , in Helmuth’s hand, DLC : Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion Collection. Two of the submitted petitions, dated 13 June, are the same. One contains the signatures of 129 “Citizens of Philadelphia,”...
24664Samuel A. Otis, Sr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 31 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
There is a standing order of Senate that I lay before the President of the United States, from time to time, a copy of their records, when acting in their Executive capacity. This I have done to the close of the last session, and left the book in which the proceedings are copied with the President of the U. States, which if you will procure to be returned by the bearer, I will continue the...
24665Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 4 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Will you be so good as to present to the President the enclosed draft of a letter to me on the subject of the resolve of Congress of the 31st Ultimo, and also my answer thereto. I am Dear Sir Your obedt Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The draft was of GW’s letter to Knox of 1 January . For the enclosed answer, see Knox to GW, 2 January .
24666Yundt & Brown to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 16 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 12th we had the honor of receiving on the 13th instant. The advertisement is inserted in this day’s paper, which is transmitted to the President, (to save postage) by mail. Our charge is twenty five dollars, (being a dollar per square for the three first insertions) which you will please to pay Mr Young, bookseller, to whom we shall give an order. It was our desire to make it...
24667From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 5 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
The letter you left with Mr Kitt—the one you wrote from Shippensburgh and another from Greenbriar Court house dated the 10th Ulto have all been recd. It can excite no ⟨illegible t⟩hat the ⟨illegible⟩ , the manner, and other cir⟨cumstanc⟩es attending your departure from this place, was not more displeasing than it was surprising: not only to me, but to every one else; and opened the door for...
24668Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Pickering incloses the proceedings from Winchester, with the draught of an answer under the same cover, which Colo. Pickering wrote a number of days since & locked up in a closet at the office of state, where it lay unnoticed till this forenoon. Mr Dandridge will also find inclosed two letters received to day from Mr Monroe, which Mr D. will have the goodness to lay before the President....
24669Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 20 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War received yesterday the inclosed letter from Mr Kinlock, desiring the extract from Mr Huger’s letter might be laid before the President: you will have the goodness to present it. Captain Kalteisen, who is an old officer now in the corps of artillery & who has been commanding at Fort Johnson, in Charleston Harbour, being in town, wishes very much to pay his respects to the...
24670From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 20 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Dandridge will be pleased to lay before the President the inclosed letter from Mr Seagrove & the Newspaper which accompanied it. The Secretary of War has had copies made of the Talks of the Creek Chiefs, which he proposes to forward by post next Monday, to Governor Blount. AL , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Neither the letter from Creek Indian agent James Seagrove nor the accompanying newspaper...
24671Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 15 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Conceiving it may be satisfactory to the President, I enclose the first report from Capt. Hills respecting the Scite for an Arsenal upon the Powtomac. Yours ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The report of John Hills has not been identified.
24672Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 30 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Pickering incloses to Mr Dandridge a memorandum of the Director of the Mint, of copper he has purchased; for the payment of which Mr Dandridge will be so good as to make out an order in the usual form, & present it to the President for his approbation & signature. 6495 lbs. at 2/4 amount to Dollars 2020 67/100. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s...
24673From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 22 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Dandridge will be so good as to lay the inclosed papers before the President; they were received to day by the mails. From General Wayne—letter dated Apl 7th with inclosures. From James Seagrove—May 7. 1795. with the proposals of J. C. Nightingale & Co. for the Indian trade. From General Morgan—May 15th The General has been precipitate in forming a corps for six months longer service; &...
24674Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 8 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit, the enclosed letters from Governor Blount, to the President. I am Dear Sir Yours &c. LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letters to Knox of 4, 9, 13, and 17 Dec. 1793 from William Blount, the governor of the Southwest Territory, have not been identified. GW returned these letters to Knox later this same date ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the...
24675Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 15 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States, the enclosed letter just received from the Governor of South Carolina, dated the 23d of January, with the several papers accompanying the same. Yours sincerely LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter from William Moultrie to Knox of 23 Jan. and its enclosures have not been identified.
24676Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
General Knox presents his Compliments to Mr Dandridge and requests that the papers, accompanying this, respecting the Frigates, may be submitted to the President of the United States. A Copy of the promotions and appointments in the army is also transmitted. L , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter is in the writing of John Stagg, Jr., chief clerk of the War Department. Knox probably was...
24677From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 9 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War requests Mr Dandridge to lay before the President the inclosed letter of John Parker Hale, lieutenant in the corps of artillerists and engineers, desiring to resign. From the information heretofore received by the Secretary, the resignation is not to be regretted. Mr Hale wishes to leave town to-morrow morning. AL , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Also on this date John Harris,...
24678Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 31 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed draught of a letter to Mr Seagrove touches on points of such importance, I think it necessary to be submitted to the President’s inspection: and as it respects Mr Seagrove’s letter to the President, the submission is indispensable. The letter with its inclosures accompany my answer, as well as Mr Seagrove’s Talk, which has occasioned many of my observations: but which from its...
24679From Giuseppe Ceracchi to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., c.10 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr King Boudinot and Wollcot will better explane the reason of there unsincerity respecting the plan of the National Monument they have connected other plots more pernicious, because secretly acting ageinst it to destroi it. My situation thank God, is for to be as the President immagin but if I should give time to the American egerness for foregn mony, my fortune might have been furthed at...
24680Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 7 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit the enclosed letter from Genl Wilkinson of the 26th Jany together with the papers accompanying it to the President of the U.S. Yours sincerely ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . James Wilkinson’s letter to Knox of 26 Jan. and its enclosures have not been identified. According to an entry of 7 March in GW’s executive journal, these documents were about the expedition being planned by...
24681From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Dandridge will be pleased to present the inclosed letter from Mr Seagrove to the President. It contains the agreeable intelligence that the Creek Nation are coming in with prisoners & stolen property, and are determined to be at peace with every part of the United States. ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . An extract of Creek Indian agent James Seagrove’s letter to GW of 12 May states: “I have...
24682Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 30 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
Be pleased to Submit to the President of the United States the enclosed letter from Genl Blount, of the 2d instant, containing the account of the destruction of two of the lower cherokee Towns. I am Yours respectfully ALS , DLC:GW . William Blount’s letter to Knox of 2 Oct. enclosed a copy of James Ore’s letter to Blount of 24 Sept., which described the destruction of the Cherokee towns of...
24683Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 16 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit, the enclosed draft of a letter to the respective Governors relatively to the law for drafting the eighty thousand Militia, to the President. I am Sir Your humble Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . GW approved the draft on this date ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797 . Charlottesville, Va., 1981. , 303). The circular, which...
24684Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 11 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to Submit the enclosed letters from Governor Shelby and Genl A. Campbell to the President of the United States. yours Sincerely LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . In a letter of 10 Jan., Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby wrote Knox in order “to call the Attention of the President of the United States to the defenceless situation of the frontiers of this state.” In expectation of being “vigorously...
24685Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 16 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the U.S., the enclosed letters from Genl Wayne of the 17th October, (duplicate the first not received) and the 12th of Novr. They have been just received I have not perused the enclosures conceiving it proper that the President should see the letters as early as possible in the morning as some measures may be proper to be taken thereon in order to lay them...
24686Benjamin Joy to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 4 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
In the month of Novr 1793 I received onboard the Ship John Robt Folger master from J. M. Pintard Esqr. at Madeira a pipe of wine for account of the President of the United States and was requested by him to take it on to India and from thence Ship it by a very safe opportunity to some part of America: no one offering after my arrival in India until nearly the time I was about leaving that...
24687John Marsden Pintard to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 27 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
I herewith hand you Invoice of one pipe of very choice old Madeira wine Shiped by me on board the American Brig the Peace of Norfolk Joseph Saltus Master and Consigned to Messrs Pettit & Bayard of Philadelphia to be held by them at the disposal of the President of the United States if he thinks proper after tasting it to Receive it and Should the President Conclude to take it you will be...
24688Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 22 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment recd from Mr Wolcott the inclosed letter to Mr Adet, which this morning I left at Mr Wolcott’s office for his perusal and remarks. He approves of it entirely. I called at Mr Lee’s in the morning for the like purpose, but he was not at home. However, his letter to me (also inclosed) which I received yesterday, shows a concurrence of his opinion in every principle advanced by...
24689From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 8 March 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your conduct during a six Years residence in my family, having been such as to meet my full approbation & believing that a declaration to this effect would be satisfactory to yourself & justice requiring it from me, I make it with pleasure. And in full confidence that the principles of honor, integrity & benevolence wch I have reason to believe have hitherto guided your steps will still...
24690From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 15 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Dandridge will be pleased to lay before the President a letter & plans relating to the proposed arsenal for South-Carolina, received during the late absence of the President—and the letters from Govr Matthews and James Ross Esqr. lately recd. AL , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter and plans for a South Carolina arsenal are not identified. In a letter dated 16 April, Georgia governor George...
24691Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 13 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Genl Knox’s Compliments to Mr Dandridge and requests he will submit to the President the enclosed draft and also Captain Hills instructions respecting a proper spot for the erection of Arsenals. L , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter is in the writing of Nathan Jones, a War Department clerk. The enclosures have not been identified. John Hills (died c.1819), who claimed to have been educated in...
24692Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 24 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States, the enclosed letters from Mr Dallas; and the proposed answer thereto to the Governor —The answer is according to the principles adopted. Yours sincerely LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter of 24 Jan. from Alexander J. Dallas, the secretary of Pennsylvania, reads: “The Governor has directed me to transmit to you the inclosed...
24693Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 22 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Be pleased to submit the enclosed drafts of letters to the Governors of North and south Carolina. probably the last paragraph but one, to the Governor of south Carolina may be a little differently shaped, but to remain the same in principle. Yours sincerely ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . In his letter to North Carolina governor Richard Dobbs Spaight of this date, Knox acknowledged the receipt of...
24694From Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 5 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Dandridge will be pleased to lay the inclosed papers before the President. 1. A Letter of the 29th ulto from Genl Morgan. 2. do do from Colo. Butler. 3. Extract of a letter from Major Craig. 4. Copy of a letter to Govr Mifflin. The Secretary of War will wait on the President to-morrow morning to take his orders relative to General Morgan and any other matters referred to in the...
24695From Pettit & Bayard to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 23 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
We were yesterday favor’d with your letter of 18th Inst. respecting a pipe of wine sent by Mr J. M. Pintard from Madeira to the President & are sorry the application was too late having disposed of it immediately after the President declined taking it agreeably to the directions given us by Mr Pintard —shou’d the other one alluded to come to our address We will not fail to give you information...
24696From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 9 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
Give the enclosed letters for Govr Jay and Doctr Priestly safe conveyances, but not by Post, for this would be expensive for Pamphlets wch I believe they are, from the Board of Agriculture of which Sir John Sinclair is President they came from him with others to me. I expect to leave this for Phila. on Monday, if all are well. make enquiry for good footmen. Yours affectionately Let Colo....
24697George Taylor, Jr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 27 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
G. Taylor Jr. presents his compliments to Mr Dandridge—and informs him that previous to the President’s departure for Virginia vizt on the 7. Sept. last there were remaining in the office signed by the President 9. Commissions for officers employed in the collection of the Revenue and 8 for officers of the revenue Cutters—of which number there have been issued agreeably to orders from the...
24698John Holland Barney to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 20 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am Sorry to inform you that the Presidents servant Austin in Attempting this Morning to Cross a Run near Harford Town, is Likely to Loose his Life . he is now at Mrs Stiles at Harford but intirely Given over by the Docter. he was with Great Difficulty Draged Out of the Water by her servant. I am yrs in Haste ALS , DLC:GW . John Holland Barney (1752–1840), a brother of Commodore Joshua...
24699Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 20 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States the enclosed letters from James Seagrove, Major Gaither and Constant Freeman, all of which have just been received. I am Dear Sir Your obedt Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . According to GW’s executive journal, Knox submitted four letters this day ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797 ....
24700From Samuel A. Otis, Sr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 5 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Mr Otis’s compliments to Mr Dandridge and sends him for the use of the President of the United States a Journal of Senate during the second Congress—Should more of the same kind be wanting, Mr Dandridge will be so good as to apply. Mr O. sends also the sheets of the present session as far as they are printed. L , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Otis sent GW the Journal of the Senate of the...