1John 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...
2From Samuel Bayard to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 28 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
By the Adriana, Captn Fitzpatrick you will receive a complete, & exact model of the Bastile, made from the very materials of this once celebrated fortress. It is a present from Mr Slade a gentleman of eminence in Doctors Commons, who is charg’d with conducting a considerable proportion of the appeals under my care, to the President of the United States—to one whose character he has ever...
3From 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...
4From 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,”...
5Abraham Hunt to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 31 October 1795–2 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your Letter respecting a Saddle Horse for the President & I wish it was in my Power to give him any hopes of succeeding in this Country—I dont believe such a one as he wants, or ought to have, is to be met with in this State—indeed it is extreemely difficult to meet with a horse that is of a smaller size than would suit the President that is good for the Saddle. You mention that...
6Benjamin 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...
7Henry 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...
8Henry 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...
9Henry 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...
10Henry 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 .
11Henry 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.
12Henry 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...
13Henry 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.
14Henry 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...
15Henry 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...
16Henry 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...
17Henry 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...
18Henry 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...
19Henry 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...
20Henry 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...
21Henry 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...
22Henry 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...
23Henry 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 ....
24Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 14 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit the enclosed letter to the President of the U.S., which is conformable to the principles agreed upon by the heads of departments and the attorney General The secretary of state has agreed to the draft, but the secretary of the treasury has been too busy to peruse it. If the President should approve it, I beleive it may yet be put on board the active Capt. Welsh for charleston,...
25Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 29 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit the papers herein enclosed to the President of the United States—Those marked with red Ink have been copied to be presented to Congress with the message to morrow —The letter to General Pickens being a private letter seems upon further consideration not proper to be submitted —Governor Blounts letter of the 27. December and the enclosures have not been copied they being...
26From Samuel A. Otis to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 8 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
I return you the book containing a copy of the proceedings of the Senate in their Executive capacity, which I am ordered to lay before the President of the U. States. I have the honor to be Your most humble Sert ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. The Third Congress, second session, sat from 3 November 1794 to 3 March 1795.
27Samuel 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...
28From 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...
29From 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...
30From 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...