George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 25 December 1797]

25. Appearance for Snow in the Morning but clear afterwards & moderate—Mer. 24 a 32. Mr. W. Dandridge came.

William Dandridge was a son of Martha Washington’s brother Bartholomew Dandridge (1737–1785) and Mary Burbidge Dandridge (d. 1809). Young Dandridge had purchased garden seeds for GW at Georgetown (GW’s Cash Memoranda, 1 Sept. 1797–20 Feb. 1799, RPJCB).

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    [Diary entry: 25 December 1797]
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    Washington, George
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    25 December 1797

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    “[Diary entry: 25 December 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0012-0025. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 274.]