1From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 30 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns Mr. Cox many thanks for the several communications he has favored him with and which will be of great utility to him. Can he procure him the loan of one of the latest editions of Ld. Sheffeild’s book? As also Edward’s answer to it. RC ( CtY ); addressed “Mr. Coxe Treasury office Chesnut street”; endorsed. Not recorded in SJL . Sheffield’s Observations on the commerce of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, [ca. 28 February 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Cox and is much obliged to him for the inclosed pamphlet. He had received a copy the last year soon after it’s publication. It was the first acknowlegement publicly made that England was an importing country as to bread. The report was written by Ld. Hawkesbury. The same thing had been satisfactorily proved before by a private hand in 1784. Can Mr....
3III. Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 17 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th : Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and being to write to the President this morning, he has no hesitation to inclose to him Mr. Coxe’s letter, and to assure Mr. Coxe of his wishes for success to the application. He has not waited to consult with Mr. M. because he should have lost a post in the conveyance of the letter, and that as to himself he had no doubts to consult about....
4From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 20 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and returns him the table of shipping with thanks for the opportunity of examining it. He sends for Mr. Coxe’s examination one of the returns, which Th: J. has required half-yearly from our Consuls in foreign ports, and will thank Mr. Coxe for any hints for it’s improvement either by insertions or omissions. RC ( CtY ); addressed: “Mr. Coxe”;...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 16 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and returns him his book with thanks, finding it is the same which he already possessed.—The account of port charges at Port-au-Prince on the Sally of Philada., cannot be used in comparison, because her tonnage is not mentioned.—There is no account of charges in any port of the English West Indies.—Also, in stating those in the French W....
6From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 5 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and his thanks for his Notes, which are exactly in the way he wished. But Mr. Coxe having omitted to return the report, Th:J cannot as yet understand the whole of them. He will be glad to receive the report now, and devote this evening to the examination of them, and would be happy to see Mr. Coxe tomorrow morning at the hour he proposes, as...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 8 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and incloses a letter from which he gets a hint which may serve as a clue to the unfavorable distinction made by the British as to our vessels. He suspects that they permit vessels belonging to other countries, tho’ not built in those countries to carry to Engld. the produce of those countries. They certainly did this for us till lately. In...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 8 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments and thanks to Mr. Coxe for the paper sent him yesterday. It fixes a conjecture that the East and West line run from the intersection of the Pensylva. boundary with the Ohio, forms the head line of the ranges of townships . But there surely was a partial survey of those ranges of townships . It is presumed that the sales made at New York must have been on...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 3 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe—and informs him it has been determined to issue passports to all vessels belonging wholly to American citizens, whether home, or foreign-built: to endeavor to give them only to those which are bonâ fide our own, to prevent all collusion, the prevalence of which might draw rigorous examinations and embarrasments on the vessels truly ours, and...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe. He directed a Census to be sent him in the moment of receiving his note of the 5 th. With respect to the placing Consuls in the British islands, we are so far from being permitted that, that a common mercantile factor is not permitted by their laws. The experiment of establishing Consuls in the Colonies of the European nations has been going...