1Enclosure: Tench Coxe’s Notes on Jefferson’s Draft Report on Commerce, [5 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Coxe wrote “Abolish the drawback on [Beer?]—it is dangerous.” Opposite this additional line in the margin he canceled “Qu. Modifications of Drawbacks.”
2To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...their situation.” Pollock estimated that imports totalled 40,000 barrels of flour and an equal amount of beef, pork, rice, gammon, lard, butter, cheese, spermaceti candles, beeswax, apples, potatoes, codfish, beer, cider, masts, iron, and steel, the whole of which he thought could be valued at $800.000. As to the latter, he gave a detailed account based on customs records of the exports...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 1 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
dry goods for St. Domingo equal to all that is stated to be shipt thither. Steel is but 978 Drs. Gunpowder but 869 Drs. Ginseng but 90,000 ℔. Beer but 4600 Drs. and there appears to be but 1,300,000 wheat, which cannot be right. On the whole, Sir, I feel a confidence that this return is considerably short of the truth. I have the...