Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 December 1794

From Tench Coxe

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 17, 1794. “I shall be glad of your opinion whether I shall direct the purchase of canvas1 (other than which is to be home made) at such prices as considering certainty, may be as advantageous as contracts resting on future importation.”

LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives.

1. For information concerning the naval armament for which this purchase was to be made, see Henry Knox to H, April 21, 1794.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 December 1794
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    Coxe, Tench
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    17 December 1794

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 December 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0436. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 447.]

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