1Henry 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...
2Henry 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...
3From 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...
4From 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...
5From 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...
6From 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...
7Henry 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...
8Timothy 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...
9From 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...
10From 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,”...