1To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 9 August 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to communicate to you the substance of a note, without his signature, which I received last Night from a person of considerable abilities , now in private life , in Paris. After expressing his expectations, that “an Envoy extraordinary is on the way to France.” he adds “ It would renew at once the happy former good understanding between the two Countries. His words are...
2To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 14 August 1797 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to communicate to you by a late mail a few important lines concerning a foreign topic. In this separate letter, I pursue the duty which always accompanies such communications that of furnishing the name to you in such manner & as early as circumstances permit. My letter was from Mr. la Forest, whose residence in America in the Employment of France, and correspondence with its...
3To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 29 September 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you, from considerations both of duty and of prudence, a copy of a letter recd by me last Night from an English Master workman, who has made proposals to this office at 32000 Dollars for erecting a light House upon Cape Hatteras, and at 16000 Dollars for erecting a lighted Beacon House at castle Island. This attempt is at once so dishonest and imprudent, that I...
4To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 2 December 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to make application to you upon the subject of two letters, which I have received from Oliver Wolcott Esquire, the Secretary of the Treasury. The first of those letters is dated on the 9th. of November last. Mr. Wolcott therein informed me, that he should make certain correspondence, which has lately passed between us the basis of a representation to you against me for...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 25 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
My notice of your health on the 31st. Ultimo, Sir, was intended to shew, that I knew what you had written on that day. It was regularly received by the person whom you honored with the communication. None of his letters between the place of his residence and the dated place of that, have ever miscarried, but one, from a southern state in October, upon private business is said to have been...
6To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 22 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor respectfully to enclose to the President the principal letter from his brother. There were several others of nearly the same date, but they were of no consequence in a public view, but as they went to confirm parts of the letter of the 26th November. It appears to have been the opinion of Mr. D. W. Coxe that very advantageous operations against the Spanish Dominions were...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 15 May 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Robert Wescott who recd the title of the Land sold Messrs. Whelen Miller & Co. has reconveyed to me 36½ tracts thereof & I have replaced with them 3200 Drs. being the difference between their retained half of 73 tracts, and what they had paid. It proves the wisest measure for Whelen & Millers Notes are under Protest at all the Banks, and they have seperated. They have sold some parcels of...
8To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 10 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
The reasons, which induced me to the freedom of my communication concerning our affairs with France, have prompted me to that which I have now the honor respectfully to submit to your consideration in the same guarded & confidential manner. It appeared to me, in the month of Feby last, that some persons of weight and even in the auxiliary offices of the government itself, had adopted the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 7 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. T. Coxe returns, with his best respects, the pamphlet Mr. Jefferson was so good as to lend him. It certainly has merit both for information, and reasoning. But Mr: Coxe would wish to see An Enquiry into the means of Prosperity to the United States well handled, before he would think it safe to settle finally the commercial course they ought to steer. Commerce would in his opinion be found...
10To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 21 September 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have received a letter from one of my brothers, who went thro Pittsburg to New Orleans in June last, which contains some information relative to public affairs. I therefore do myself the honor to enclose a copy that it may be of any confidential use that you may think proper, within the Government. My brother having a very considerable commercial establishment at New Orleans, and other parts...