151Tench Coxe’s First Draft, September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury in obedience to the order of the house of Representatives of the fifteenth day of January last has applied his attention at as early a period as his other duties would permit, to the subject of manufactures, and particularly to the means of promoting such as will tend to render the United states independent on other nations for military and other essential...
152To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 27, 1794. “I have the honor to request that you will take order upon the subject of a remittance for the expenditures by Mr. Gorham.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives. Nathaniel Gorham was supervisor of the revenue for the District...
153To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 9 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 9, 1794. “Measures having been taken to carry into effect the several acts of Congress lately passed for the purposes of erecting and placing Beacons & Buoys in the ports & Harbours therein recited; you will be pleased to direct the adequate remittances of money for the purposes of defraying the expenses arising thereon.…” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse...
154To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 19 May 1788 (Madison Papers)
The fate of the new constitution is now hastening to a crisis. The decision of Virginia in its favor ensures its existence, for South Carolina will most certainly adopt it before you can be organized. If on the other hand your Convention should reject the Government it will be rendered extremely uncertain in New York, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. Had our friends been less sanguine in New...
155To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 27 September 1787 (Madison Papers)
My anxiety in favor of the new federal Constitution has induced me to attempt some comments on it, that might render it more clear and agreeable to the people at large, than the concise manner, in which it was necessarily drawn up, would admit of. A friend, with whom I ventured to converse on the Subject, has pressed me to pass them thro the papers of Virginia and New York. This will apologize...
156To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “The Superintendent of the Virginia Lt. House (col William Lyndsay) has reported the Death of the late keeper Captain Goffigan. He has placed in that Station Mr. Henry James a native of the place, an old Seafaring Man, whom he thinks every way calculated for a keeper. No other person offers for the service.…” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse...
157To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [31 December 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
You will find enclosed a very rough copy of Leslies improvement of the proposition of Hatton and Whitehurst —for an invariable Standard of length, capacity & weight. This is his original corrected &ca. by me of wch. Mr Jefferson has the fair copy. Genl. S. will be able to make it out. The printed roll contains a plan of state finance proposed by Mr. R Morris, which having relation to the Bank...
158To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 19 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
It has appeared to be of great importance to public impression to get the inclosed (Chaps. 66 &ca) into a paper read by the federal bar, trade &c: More a revision of the case of the Siberia Loan, it appears that the turn of expression should be varied, but the substance is clear & strong. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
159To George Washington from Tench Coxe, 5 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
Mr T. Coxe presents his most respectful compliments to General Washington and has the honor to request his acceptance of a recent publication concerning the Affairs of the United States. He begs leave to remark, that this work contains his reflected opinions upon many of the greater operations of this country & government. He trusts that the General will excuse this observation in the present...
160To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [ca. May–June 1810] (Madison Papers)
The present condition of the world certainly demands all the consideration of every wise and good man, which his situation permits or requires him to bestow upon a temporal subject. The war, which in various forms and upon several grounds, has been carried on between France and her adversaries, has reached a degree of seriousness, which ensures consequences of the most extensive effects and...
161To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 16 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
An eminent Merchant of this city has lately communicated to me some information upon the subject of the India trade. In doing this he furnished me with a note upon that part of the British treaty which relates to it. I have the honor to enclose the paper, and to refer the last paragraph of nine lines to your consideration. There is a question of some importance, whether the two years run from...
162To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 5 February [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to return to Mr. Jefferson the report, on which he has taken the liberty to make marks (to connect his notes), with a pencil. These notes apply very unreservedly to questions of fact—and to modes of expression. There are some Ideas of importance in relation to the subject in general, and to this present moment or state of thing’s on which Mr. C. will communicate his...
163To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 14 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that the Result of my Enquiries relative to Messrs. Perry, Chamberlain, Richardson and Eccleston have issued as follows. It appears to be the unanimous opinion of those Gentlemen, among whom are the Senator and Representative who reside in the Survey, that Mr. Chamberlain is a Man of excellent character and of a standing in the community equal to the Office, but...
164To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 February 1788 (Madison Papers)
I trouble you with the last No. (3) of the freeman. In the paper N. 1. signed a Pennsylvanian I have opened a regular examination of the state of the opposition here, & shall endeavour to add a refutation of some of the objections of the minority. Consolidation I shall of course retouch, & therefore wish any thing you meet on that Subject to be enclosed. No. 44, & 45 of Publius are very...
165To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 17 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
When your message to the legislature announced the idea of the abolition of the internal revenues, I presumed that it was after such examination of the subject as would give rise to the same idea among the members of Congress. I expected therefore the abolition of the little office on which all my income depends. I find from communications from several of the members, and the debates of the...
166To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 21 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
I am sorry to find that the Rhode Island Convention have adjourned without determining in favor of the Constitution. This conduct is however so far favorable as it may be deemed a proof that they are not violently bent against it. The general causes of the conduct of that State are perfectly well understood, but I wish much to know as far as you have collected them and are at liberty to...
167To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 9 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to transmit the foregoing to the Secretary of State. He forgot to mention this morning that he had written particularly to Mr. Seton on the Subject communicated by the Secretary yesterday noon. RC ( DLC ); subjoined to enclosure; endorsed by TJ as received 9 May 1793 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Vincent Gray, the Deputy Collector of Customs at Alexandria,...
168To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 7 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 7, 1795. “… the House of Whelen & Miller propose to set a part a specimen of Salt Petre for the Standard, above or below which they are content to vary the price of 12 50/100 Dolls. It is called rough Salt Petre, and is 10 ⅌ Ct. below the requisite degree of refinement.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the...
169Enclosure: Memorandum from Tench Coxe, [before 10 September 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Note on the act of the President of the United States of the — of — 1801. relative to the internal Revenues . By the constitution of the United States (Sect. 8 art. 1) it is ordained, that all duties imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the U.S. All the internal revenues have been collected in the N.W. Territory, as well as in Virginia, Pennsa. or Massachusetts. It was discovered,...
170To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have in my possession one of your letters inclosed to me on the 12th. instant , the other has been sent to Mr. Monroe. I presumed them to be duplicates. It will always give me pleasure Sir, to evince by attention to these little matters, my dispositions in regard to things of greater importance. It seems Europe is not yet to have Peace. The french have opened the Campain on the side of Italy...
171To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
I presume you will receive, by the mail of this day, or tomorrow an account of the death of Gen. Macpherson. It took place last Night at his country house, near this city. This event has brought up to my mind the permission, which I had the honor to receive from you through Mr. Gallatin—to address you on the subject of the office on the expected occurrence of the event. Since Providence has...
172To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 15 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 15 Apr. 1791 . Encloses return of tonnage for one year, including several customhouse returns not received when Register made up former statement. It is in the form shown TJ in Feb., “except the interesting additions … exhibiting the European—African—Asiatic—West Indian and other Subdivisions of the American commerce, which have been since added. As far as my mind has been...
173To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [22 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Messrs. Wheelen & Miller & Co. not having sent me the papers relative to the part of Patterson’s & Co’s. concern on Friday I walked up to your House with the inclosed Bond, which was all that remained for me to do alone in the land concerns or the Business of the Loan to me. I regretted to find you were gone. I had a wish to pay my last respects to Mrs. H—— and Mrs. Coxe called within an hour...
174To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 6 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 6, 1793. On May 8, 1793, Hamilton wrote to George Washington : “The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the consideration of the President of the U States a communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 6 instant.” Letter not found. ]
175To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 17, 1794. “I shall be glad of your opinion whether I shall direct the purchase of canvas (other than which is to be home made) at such prices as considering certainty, may be as advantageous as contracts resting on future importation.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval,...
176To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 28 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
I should have replied sooner to your last favor, but I had hoped to find some of the debates &ca, for the ten years, which you do not possess. I am sorry I have not yet succeeded, and I fear the rarity of them and the constant purchases by young & rising public men, foreigners, libraries &ca. may disappoint me. I will however keep your wishes constantly in view. The Missouri case has...
177To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 2 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 2, 1794. “… from the best opinion which can be formed at present, it appears, that five thousand Dollars will be sufficient to be placed in the hands of each of the Naval Agents.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives. This letter...
178To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 1 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 1, 1794. “… I have the honor … to request that a warrant may be issued in favor of John Mease as agent for Thomas Marshall … on account of whiskey purchased for the … Military supply. I inclose you Mr. Francis’s application for a further sum of money, for the service at Fort Mifflin, and request that a warrant may be issued in his favor accordingly.”...
179To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, November 30, 1792. Announces “the completion of the light House, Keepers house, oil Vault, and platform on Cape Henry in the state of Virginia.” States that extra work has compelled the contractor to submit a bill in excess of the original contract. Asks Hamilton to secure the President’s approval of this bill. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of...
180To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 19 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
A doubt has been suggested by the Supervisor of Kentucky, whether the carriage tax for the first year is exigible and collectible in that district, under the circumstances following which are extracted from his letter. “These (the new Revenue laws) came to me as Inspector of the 7th Survey in the district of Virginia, and the necessary preliminary measures were taken on my part for carrying...
181To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 10 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor to write you upon the subject of an appointment, I did it with great reluctance from the numerous suggestions of names & applications that must necessarily embarrass and distress you. I will not suppress the expression of a consciousness, that I have undergone the most injurious and severe trials in the public service as a citizen lately, and before as an officer. My...
182II. Tench Coxe’s Notes on the Dutch and Prussian Fisheries, [ca. 23 November 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on the Dutch Fisheries . 1st the Whale fishery. The whale Fishery was carried on previous to the year 1645 by the Groenland or northern Company, who had obtained an exclusive right from the Government for that purpose. Their charter expired in the Year 1741, after which the business declined so much, that the States found little enducement to renew the privilege, but declared the fishery...
183To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
From my knowledge of the Reverend Mr. W. White, Commr. of Loans & of John White Esqr Collector of the Revenue, I beg leave, on their application, respectfully to submit to you an opinion, that a Son & Nephew of those two gentlemen will be a safe & proper person to receive the honor of a place in the Corps of Cadets. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most respectful Servant, RC ( DNA : RG 94,...
184To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [ca. 28 November] 1801 (Madison Papers)
A small addition is proposed to the note by the mail of monday & wednesday from Pha. to Washn. The subject is of deep importance. It does not proceed from the vanity of suppose [ sic ] that any thing can strike here, which will not occur there. Any dangerous views towards this country are most practicable where there is a particular description of people. We are obviously most vulnerable...
185To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 4, 1793. On June 22, 1793, Hamilton wrote to George Washington and referred to a letter “of the 4 inst. from the Commissioner of the Revenue on the subject of compensations to Keepers of Light houses.” Letter not found. ]
186To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
The subject on which I have lately expressed my sentiments to you is so important in itself and so influential in its consequences, that I am led to continue some attention to it. In Poulson’s Amern. daily advertiser of this city of the 17th. inst. there is a proclamation of the Russian Adml. Henry Bailey, in which confiscation is held up as the consequence of infractions of the general...
187To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 13 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury will judge how far the Limits of the two Departments require any alterations of these Instructions. It appears proper and necessary that the Agents should be instructed not to proceed to any purchases, but after they shall be informed by the Commr. of the Reve. that they are to proceed in such purchase: otherwise, double purchases, with the disadvantage of a...
188To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 17 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you a note of all the Sea letters received by me, and of the Disposition thereof. A communication of similar import has been made to the Secretary of the Treasury that he may know for how many the Collectors of the Customs are to be held responsible. With great respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most Obedient Servant Sea letters, considered as received;...
189To John Jay from Tench Coxe, 16 November 1791 (Jay Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose to you an enlarged copy of the Examination of Lord Sheffield, which one of our printers was desirous to republish. You will perceive, in the interspersed and additional new matters, I have endeavoured to bring up such Ideas as would tend to answer the report of the British privy council contained in a letter which I requested M r . King to lay before you. In...
190To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 10 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 10, 1794. “The Advertiset. for the military supply of Clothing for 1795 was predicated upon that from yr. office for 1794, there being at the time no regular requisition from you for the purchase. It is observed now, that no blankets were included in the advert. from this office. The contract being about to be closed it is wished to know what has...
191To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 24 March 1789 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you a few lines some days ago, which I hope you have received. The letter contained Col. Morgan’s propositions to our farmers & tradesmen. On sunday last I sat down to make a few notes on some points which appear necessary to be considered in forming our System of impost. Enclosed you will find a copy of them hastily transcribed, of which you will make any use you see proper. Some of...
192To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 23 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, September 23, 1794. Requests a “Warrant to be Issued for the sum of two thousand Dollars, for the purpose of making a payment of that sum on a/count of a contract for Iron cannon ball & ballast or Kentledge, to L. Holingsworth & Son as agents for the Company of the sd. contractors, consisting of Richard Edwards, George Leonard, Levi Holingsworth and Paschal...
193To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 8, 1794. “A few days after the receipt of your letter of the 6 of April, requesting me to act temporarily in the War business of the Treasury, I found that little reliance was to be placed upon a cheap or even a certain supply of Gun powder within the United States. I was unable to get any good house to make a contract for 300 Tons which you authorized...
194To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
In pursuance of the order of the Senate of the 18th day of February 1793 An enquiry into the expediency of erecting a Light House upon watch Hill in the state of Rhode Island was duly instituted. It appears that a Light house of the first class or of very considerable expence is not desired, nor necessary to Navigation in that quarter. That a light on Watch Hill would not be extensively useful...
195To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 29 November 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Tench Coxe. 29 November 1805, Philadelphia. “I am honored with your letter relative to the copies of the two patents to Mrs. Rebecca Blackwell and Mr. Geo. Fende or Fead. I have just recd. the originals and I take the liberty to transmit them for the purpose of being forwarded to the proper officer or officers, whether register or commissioners. I will take the necessary measures for...
196To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 18 August 1787 (Madison Papers)
Some matters of a good deal of consequence to myself render it necessary for me to be known to Mr. Jefferson—just so far as to take the liberty of addressing two or three letters to him. You will oblige me very much by favoring me with two copies of a short letter of introduction to go by different opportunities. It will be much more agreeable to me to receive them from you sealed than open....
197To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Messrs Richard & Hunt Downing have rendered to me the enclosed minute of their supplies at Downingston to the Pennsylvania Division of the Militia Army on their return. As the quantity is small & Mess. Downings were employed by Mr. Williams to supply the Troops on the march westward, it appears expedient, to wrap up the whole in a settlement thro’ Mr. Williams. If you should approve that Idea,...
198To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 November 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, November 27, 1794. Requests “that a remittance of seven or eight thousand Dolls. may be made to Geo: Gale Esqr. Supervr. of Maryland for the purpose of supplying with provisions &c. the Maryld Division of the Militia Army returning from the Westward.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military,...
199To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 5 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor respectfully to submit to the inofficial perusal of Mr. Jefferson, a part of a series of papers, which he has sent to a Washington News paper, which have a material relation to public affairs. They contain a proportion of matter published in a former crisis, with considerable additions arising out of present circumstances. It is a serious & painful truth, that gazettes &...
200To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to Mr. Jefferson the paper under this cover with a request that it may be returned when he shall have read or caused it to be transcribed. The Name of the writer Mr. C. will have the honor to communicate orally . RC ( DLC ); addressed: “The Secretary of State”; endorsed by TJ: “Florida West.” Recorded in SJPL .