1From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 10 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 22. has been duly recieved, and I again avail myself of the permission to trouble you with a letter for Europe which needs an unsuspicious conveyance. I rejoice at the victory obtained by the French over their enemies. I should have rejoiced much more however to have seen them at peace with their continental antagonists, and the whole war reduced to a duel between them and...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 10 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 30. The sentiments therein expressed on the subject of the treaty coincide perfectly with those of this country, which I believe were never more unanimous. 4. or 5. individuals of Richmond, distinguished however by their talents as by their devotion to all the sacred acts of the government, and the town of Alexandria constitute the whole...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 1 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few days ago only your favor of Mar. 20. accompanied by the Collection of your papers lately printed, for which I cordially thank you. It will enable me to turn with more convenience to pieces which I consult with pleasure and instruction. I congratulate you on the successes of our two allies. Those of the Hollanders are new, and therefore pleasing. It proves there is a god in...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 1 May 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several favors of Feb. 22. 27. and Mar. 16. which had been accumulating in Richmond during the prevalence of the small-pox in that place, were lately brought to me on the permission given the post to resume his communication. I am particularly to thank you for your favor in forwarding the Bee. Your letters give a comfortable view of French affairs, and later events seem to confirm it....
5From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and returns him Mr. Franks’s letter with thanks for the perusal of it. His situation has permitted him to communicate it to the President, but no further. The oppressions of our commerce in the West Indies are really grievous: but it seems best to take no small measure, but to wait for the mass of matter we expect from the merchants and to...
6From 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...
7From 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...
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, 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...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, [on or before 8 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe. He cannot find under what authority a Swedish built ship, for instance, bought by British subjects and navigated legally, can be employed between England and Sweden.—Is it that where the law uses the terms British , or British built ships, the former means any ships owned by British subjects ? If so, a Swedish ship bought by a British subject...