1To George Washington from John Dandridge, 12 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
About three weeks since, Mr Wm Holt of Williamsburg informed me that there were some Eastern shore beans lodged in my neighbourhood for him, & requested me to take them into my possession, & send you one half; which I now do in the bag connected with this letter—Mr Holt expected this would have been done long before this, but the Gent. with whom the beans were lodged has been from home until...
2To George Washington from John Dandridge, 27 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of drawing your attention a little to the subject of the Debt due you from my Fathers Estate—I have now in my possession a tract of Land in Gloucester County, entirely level, situate on the navigable waters of north river, but a small distance from the Bay & containing four hundred acres: The soil is very rich & strong—It was sold under a mortgage, to my Father, foreclosed,...
3To George Washington from John Dandridge, 6 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have received your answer to my offer of the tract of Land in Gloucester. I have no platt of it by which you can be informed of it’s boundaries precisely; but I can give you such a description of it’s situation as will answer the purpose of examination—It is part of a large tract of land that belonged formerly to one Brister, a citizen of England, and was escheated under the laws of this...
4To George Washington from John Dandridge, 2 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter of the 26th Ultmo, yesterday, with the inclosures—I assure you, that I am sensible of the indulgence you have continually afforded to my Father’s Estate and of your present offer to extend it: But so sensible, also, am I, of the great difficulty in raising cash at present, and so anxious am I to adjust the claims against the Estate, that I shall take the price fixed on...
5To George Washington from John Dandridge, 8 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
I take this moment to inform you that I have just recorded a Deed of the Land in Gloucester, to you, agreeable to the price offered in your Letter on that subject; to wit £800. You will be so good as to present my affectionate duty to my Aunt, & inform her that her Friends here are well. I am, Sir, with respectful regard, Yr Obt Sert ALS , ViMtvL . For background to this letter, see Dandridge...
6To George Washington from John Dandridge, 21 September 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have for a long time intended to forward to you the present inclosed Deed for the Gloucester land, & must beg pardon for my neglect in omitting it. I have, for a year past, monthly expected to be able to make you some payments on account of Doctr D. Stuart, & have still been disappointed. The most positive promises have been made that I shall receive some considerable sums at the meeting of...
7To George Washington from John Dandridge, 28 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lewis A. Pauly, who will present this to you, having some propositions of a public nature to make, which relate to the military establishments of the United States & which will most probably come to your consideration, I take the liberty of informing you, in his behalf, that I have known him for several years as a respectable & honest man in my neighbourhood. Mr Pauly came into this...
8To George Washington from John Dandridge, 23 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
I cannot help saying that I am sorry to be obliged sometimes to trespass on the little time that you have to spare from attending to the many cares which your public & private affairs must ingage you in; but I will not aggravate my trespass by a tedious apology. Being about to remove some distance from where I now live, & being possessed of the wives & children of Frederic and George two of...