To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 1 August 1794
From Tench Coxe1
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 1, 1794. Requests “a payment to be made to John J. Feach & Co.2 of the sum of five thousand Dollars on a/count of a contract made with them for the casting of a quantity of Kentledge or Iron Ballast & Cannon ball.”3
LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives.
1. Coxe, who was commissioner of the revenue, had been made responsible for procuring military, naval, and Indian supplies. See H to Coxe, April 4, 1794.
For background to this letter, see Henry Knox to H, March 29, April 21, 1794.
2. John Jacob Faesch, who had come to the United States from Switzerland in 1764, was a well-known ironmaster in Morris County, New Jersey. In 1787 he was a member of that state’s ratifying convention. Faesch’s Mount Hope Furnace in Rockaway township supplied shot, shell, and cannon for the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
3. See Coxe to John J. Faesch and Company, July 18, 1794 (LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives).