541To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 20 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Treasury Department, 20 July 1791 . In the unavoidable absence of the Secretary of the Treasury, Coxe requests the Secretary of State to have prepared and sent to the Treasury a correct list of U.S. consuls and their places of residence, being necessary for the collectors of the impost. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); in a clerk’s hand; endorsed by Remsen as received 20 July 1791, but not recorded in...
542To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 17 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
An application has been made to me, since I had the honor of seeing you, to know whether it will be illegal, or, in any respect, improper for a Citizen of the United States to accept the business and to perform the service of an agent for the prizes sent and to be sent into the port of Philadelphia by the French ships of war, public and private. I have promised the applicants information upon...
543To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 27 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive this afternoon your note relative to the value of the transportation of the whole produce of the United States to foreign markets. By this I understand the amount of the freight money that would be paid by the owners of our produce to the owners of the vessels in which they are laden, if they were always different persons. In the very imperfect state of the documents...
544To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 30 April [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to the Secretary of State a letter from Mr. Stephen Kingston relative to a foreign built Ship, which is stated to belong to Mr. Kingston of Philadelphia. This Vessel is not now in the United States but in Jamaica, Honduras or on the High Seas between them. She is British built, and has now a British register, it is presumed, as she could not without one enter...
545Enclosure: Tench Coxe’s Notes on Jefferson’s Draft Report on Commerce, [5 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on the Report of the Secretary of State, made in consequence of the reference of the House of Representatives of the day of 1791 [pa]ge 1 1 Nations —substitute Countries —or change the words “ Spain &ca.” 2 Quere the difference between Breadstuff and meals page 2 1 its Dominions —to prevent mistakes might be inserted as above
546To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that the house of Pragers & Co. will supply some Bills on Amsterdam at 3/ Pennsa. Money, or 36 ninetieths of a dollar. The Treasury bills supplied for the use of the Department of State on the last occasions were at 364/11 Ninetieths, which the Merchants consider as the par . Not being in trade I would recommend an Application to Mr. Vaughan in regard to Messrs....
547To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [30 January? 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that pitch is certainly 11/ ⅌ 112℔ i.e. dutied to exclusion as a manufacture. Tar 11d. ⅌ barrl. and turpentine ⅔ ⅌ Cwt. Mr. Remsen’s copy of Mr. Coxe’s very rough minutes, corrected, is enclosed, also the amount of fur duties in England equal to 15 and 20 ⅌ Ct. ad valorem at the medium prices. Mr. Coxe will not fail to send the Return of Exports...
548To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, with Jefferson’s Note, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that he has purchased of Mr. John Wilcocks a bill on London at 174 ⅌Ct. to the amount of 5000 Drs. Mr. Wilcocks wishes for the Cash this day and will give Mr. Coxe the bills by the time Mr. Jefferson can send a check on the Bank. [ Note by TJ: ] gave instantly an order on the bank for 5000. D. payable to John Wilcocks or bearer. RC ( DLC ); with...
549To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 30 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 30 June 1791 . Enclosing “some notes on the Portuguese regulations” based on reliable sources and according with his own previous knowledge and the “known spirit of the Portuguese commercial System.” He will furnish a similar paper on the other cases, meanwhile adding summary data on the Swedish subject. Their West India trade (at St. Bartholomew’s) as free as possible, all...
550To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 20 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the opportunity by Mr. Madison to transmit to you a copy of a collection of papers which one of our printers has lately published and of which I request you will do me the honor to accept. They may assist to shew foreigners, our young people, and those, who have been out of the way of seeing for themselves, some of the considerable facts, which have affected the political and private...
551To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [ca. June 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to enclose to Mr. Jefferson a state of the exports of Sugar, coffee, cocoa and Cotton from Surinam for 1787, and some smaller articles for other years. None of these articles can be shipt elsewhere than to Europe, nor in any other than Dutch bottoms. A Dutch Merchant having informed Mr. Coxe that he has furnished Mr. Fitzsimmons with the Dutch account of Duties for Mr....
552To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [1790] (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you a very interesting report made in March last by a Comme. of the British Privy Council upon the subject of their corn trade. The two first paragraphs of the 7th page appear to merit particular attention, and more especially the last of them against which you will observe I have placed an index☞. The paragraph in page 22, marked with an index favors exceedingly the...
553To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [7 April 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that he has been attentive to the State of Exchange on Holland and Britain since last Monday Morning. He found that bills on England sold on that day and Tuesday at par on a credit of 60 days the buyer allowing the interest—and for cash at small discounts, about 1 ⅌Ct. or £165 currency for £100 stg. Dutch bills were about 3/ ⅌ guilder at the same...
554To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 8 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to Mr. Jefferson an abstract from the general imports, intended to exhibit the quantum of manufactured supplies, which each foreign nation has the benefit of selling to the United States. The estimate is formed on a presumption that all the ad valorem articles from Europe and the E. Indies are Manufactures. This is almost universally true, and if it varies in...
555To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope, Sir, that this letter will find [you] settled in your retreat at Monticello. It is the first which I have had the honor to address to you since your departure. I congratulate you on the temperate conduct of the French Convention towards the U.S. in regard to the late Altercations of Mr. Genet with our Government and his conduct in general. I understood yesterday from the P. that Mr....
556To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to enclose to Mr. Jefferson a bill of Mr. John Wilcocks for £1077.11.9 Stg. which, at 174 ⅌Ct., amounts to 5000 Drs. Mr. Vaughan this day informed Mr. Coxe that he was negociating for 50,000 Drs. in Bills on London to be delivered on the 18th. of Augt., which he said he should procure on much more favorable terms than 74 ⅌Ct.—but he did not say how low. He added that...
557To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Crew, 22 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing for you the morning chronicle for this day; it contains a motion by Mr. Gray for an address to the King against the War with France, which paper may be acceptable to you, should the subject it contains not have reached you before. In order the better to enable me to serve my friends, and that neither their interest nor my own may suffer should business at any...
558To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Crew, 17 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose to you four newspapers, which contain some parliamentary debates, which it may be agreeable for you to receive.—I shall be glad to have the honour of receiving your commands in any thing it may be in my power to serve you. I am with the greatest respect Sir Your most obedt Servt, RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 17 Mch. 1791 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures not identified,...
559To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Crew, 21 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
London 21 Aug. 1789. A Virginian, he left London last Oct. for Virginia where he spent winter and spring, arriving back about two months ago. Will make London his “permanent residence for mercantile business with … friends in America.” He is confident he can serve TJ as well as any other person there and will be much mortified if TJ does not make use of him one time or another.—He has letter...
560Petition and Memorial from Lewis Crousillat, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
To Thomas Jefferson Esquire Secretary of State for the United States of America. The Petition and Memorial of Lewis Crousillat of the City of Philadelphia Merchant Respectfully Sheweth. That your Memorialist Came to this Country from France in the year One Thousand seven hundred and eighty one and settled in the city of Philadelphia where he hath continued to reside and carry on Business as a...
561Memorial from Nicholas Cruger and Others, 26 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
To Thomas Jefferson Esquire Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs for the United States The Memorial of Nicholas Cruger of the City of New York Merchant, Andrew Burke of same place Mariner And Jacob & Philip Mark, John Alsop, Thomas Randall, Paschal N. Smith, William Laight, Richard Yates & George Pollock, Daniel Cotton, William Minturn, Minturn & Champlin, James Scott & Co., Gulian...
562To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 7 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond , 7 Apr. 1791 . He had the honor and the pain of receiving TJ’s friendly letter by Mr. Hamilton, and while sorry to learn the situation he could never make acknowledgments enough for TJ’s “uncommonly friendly and very pointed attention to the business.” After deliberating with anxiety, he ventured to impart the contents of TJ’s letter to [Griffin], which he received with some emotion...
563To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you with this line by Mr. Greenup just to remind you of (as soon as matters of more consequence will permit) my affair with Griffin, to have it if possible brought to a speedy and favorable issue, being much afraid that some Chicanery has, or will be, practised, to defraud me of justice ultimately I conceive Your particular enquiry […] which you was kind enough...
564To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 27 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing of your arrival at Norfolk; and would have immediately done myself the honor to Wait upon you had I not been prevented of that pleasure by an inflamed throat and the badness of the Weather. To day the inflammation is rather better but with difficulty now can swallow. Thrice wellcome my honorable and very dear friend to your native and where universal...
565To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 12 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I some time ago took the liberty of writing you a line enquiring into the situation of my debt and suit vs. Dr. Griffin and solliciting your further friendly agency therein. I hope you have received the letter before or at this period and anxiously hope and wish for favorable Accounts of the business; as soon as convenient, and agreeable to yourself, to write me. I have been this forenoon with...
566To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 13 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 13 Apr. 1791 . This will be delivered to TJ by Dr. John Griffin, whose letter to TJ about his bills on Potter was enclosed in one from Currie and has no doubt been received. Currie will be under greater obligation to TJ when the bills are paid; he hopes Potter will not have to make sacrifices, but if so he thinks himself entitled to that advantage more than any other creditor. Once...
567To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 10 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the opportunity by Judge Irdell to write you this short Epistle, and to apologise in Some measure for the liberty lately taken upon two Occasions: viz of two Short letters of introduction by A Mr. Campbell and a Mr. Maitland to be delivered by their respective bearers and a liberty I am conscious ought seldom or ever to take place but between friends on the most intimate footing. I hope...
568To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 21 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Not expecting the pleasure of seeing You down here, I take the liberty of writing you a line to inform I received Your polite letter dated Schyllkill inclosing the attorney’s report to you of the state of my Suit vs. Griffin and am much Obligd. by your friendly intention to have it brought to an end before you leave Philadelphia again. After Your return from Monticello, there are 3 pipes or...
569To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 13 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
From the last letter I had the honor of receiving from you I was informed that my suit vs. Griffin had lain by from the Gentleman to whom it was formerly intrusted having left off the practice of the Law and that it would be determined at the april term. I have every thing to hope from your friendly attention to the business and will be glad as soon as convenient to be informed of its...
570To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 6 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
It is sometime since I had the honor of a line from you. In your last, I was inform’d that, my suit versus Griffin would probably be determin’d last April Court. Not having heard since leaves me in doubt whether any thing has been done in it. Will be glad to be inform’d when you are at leisure its situation and still continue to sollicit your friendly attention to it. We were in hopes of the...