To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 October 1794
From Tench Coxe1
T. D. R. O. October 4 1794
Sir
You will receive by this express a copy of a letter to me from Mr. Gale.2
A letter has been sent from your Office, from Col. Carrington to you3 a copy is enclosed. Major Hodgdon whom I have seen, assured me 5 or 6000 blankets have gone forward; the last this day. Ten bales containing as he supposed 1600 more have arrived from N. York, & are in good time, as he could not get more off than have this day gone. He says that Invoices of all parcels were sent with them. The Arms had gone before this letter was received from Mr. Carrington. Mr. Hodgdon informs me that he sends you daily an account of what he forwards.
I have not received any information from Mr. Stagg4 relative to the Objects of your letter of the 30th.5 I made this day another unsuccessful call to see him. He was absent on business. The Clerk with whom I left the request for the tellers, said he had informed him of my request.
The Money for Mr. Gale (3000 Dolls.) had been applied for by the exhibition of his letter at your Office.
I have cautioned Mr. Gale to take care that the disease at Baltimore be not communicated to the Militia by the clothing from there.6
It appears to me expedient that the agency or Commissareate for 17957 should be considered if not filled while the President is to the westward. Several of Gen. Wilkins’s8 friends wish the situation for him. Mr. Ross9 particularly. I have the honor to be
Sir your mo. obedt. Servt.
T. Coxe C. R:
The Secty. of the Treasy.
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 background to this letter, see H to Coxe, April 4, 1794.
2. George Gale was supervisor of the revenue for Maryland. On October 4, 1794, Coxe wrote to Gale: “I have desired the remittance of 7 or 8000 Dollars be made to you by mondays post, as desired in your letter of the 2d. instant …” (LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives).
3. Edward Carrington’s letter to H has not been found. Carrington was supervisor of the revenue for Virginia. On October 4, 1794, Coxe wrote to Samuel Hodgdon, commissary of Army stores: “I have just seen a letter to the Secy of the Treasy. From Col: Carrington in which he urges the speedy transmission of the Blankets, and also requests a particular a/count of each parcel sent …” (LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives).
4. John Stagg, Jr., chief clerk in the War Department.
5. Letter not found, but see Coxe to H, October 1, 1794.
6. See Coxe to Gale, October 4, 1794 (LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives). Coxe is referring to the outbreak of yellow fever in Baltimore.
7. Coxe is referring to the appointment of a commissary for Army supplies in the western territory.
8. Brigadier General John Wilkins, Jr.
9. Presumably James Ross, one of the Federal commissioners appointed by George Washington to confer with representatives of the insurgents in western Pennsylvania. See H and Henry Knox to Washington, August 5, 1794, note 3.