331To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 27, 1792. Encloses “a contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware light House and Benjamin Price for two mooring Chains for two of the Beacon boats stationed in the bay of Delaware.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives. William Allibone.
332To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 20, 1792. Transmits “for the purpose of submission to the President a contract entered into between the Superintendent of the Delaware light House, piers &c. and Thomas Davis and Thomas Connaroe junior, for the replacing of one of the piers which formed the harbour near Mud Island, which pier was carried away by the Ice at the Breaking up of the River...
333To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 10 June 1792 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor of your letter from the Town of Quincy, of the erection of which I was not before informed: nor did I ever hear you distinguished by the title of “ Braintree ” unless the tree of knowledge may be so called. Mr Pinckney is still here. I do not know precisely when he will depart. No ship, which he likes, is to be found in Phila. or N. York destined for England. The Sidney, of...
334To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, May 31, 1792. “Prior to the recommencement of the building of the Light House on Bald Head, I found it necessary to make an examination of that part of the work which has been executed under the direction of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of North Carolina: and I do myself the Honor to state to you some ideas that have occured, together with...
335To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, May 28, 1792. Encloses contract “for the digging and building of a well for the Use” of the Delaware lighthouse. Discusses “the causes of the extraordinary expence.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives.
336To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [20 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I understand from Mrs. Hamilton that you do not expect to return from Newark for several days from which I conclude that you mean to make a complete arrangement of the Business of the Manufacturing Society. I am heartily glad of this tho I could have wished you were returned as I have gone thro the preparation of all the instructions, forms &ca. which are rendered necessary by the Alterations...
337To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 12 May 1792 (Adams Papers)
I hope this letter will find you and Mrs. Adams comfortably set down at Braintree, where your mind will have time to recover from the fatigues of a very discordant Session—There has been done however a good deal of important & useful business, which will conduce towards the great Desideratum of public order. The provision for the Election of the President & Vice President & for the contingent...
338To George Washington from Tench Coxe, 11 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Having been informed by the Secretary of the Treasury, that you had been pleased to confide to me the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, I should have deemed it my duty immediately to have waited on you for the purpose of expressing my grateful sense of the honor confered upon me, and of respectfully informing you of my chearful obedience to your commands in this and every service in...
339To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [6 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The bill relative to the debt having passed thro the House I hope an handsome conclusion will be made to the business of the Departments. I should not have troubled you again upon [it], but that I am well informed that a Member of the Senate, who opposed the bill in its present Shape said a week ago that “the whole of the Treasury clauses except the Compensations would be struck out in the...
340To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [17 December 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson, that the silver crown of six livres Tournois is worth in the French W. Indies nine livres of the Colonies and that the livre Tournois according to the par of french coins is deemed conformable with that fact—that is 30s. of the Colonies are worth 20s. of France. Mr. C. will read the letter with care and have the honor to return it in person to...
341To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 15 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that the Charges on the Sally at Port au Prince are in colonial livres of which 8 are equal to a dollar nearly, tho not precisely. Mr. Coxe will transmit some fuller papers than those sent, which it was hoped in the interim might be of use. He has ascertained that Tar pays in G. Britain a duty of 11d. Sterling, and expects hourly further...
342To 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...
343Tench Coxe’s Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [Fall] 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 foreign Nations for military and other essential...
344To 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...
345To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 1 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform the Secretary of State that he has just discovered a Monsr. Hallet, who is said to be a very excellent Draughtsman. He lives at a Mr. Savery’s a hatter at the Corner of 3d. and arch Streets. Mr. Hallet does not speak English, but the writing can be added by a Clerk. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by clerk as received the same day. Hallet was employed not...
346To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 20 September 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknowledge the honor of your letter of the 13th. instant—and am very happy to find that what has been done in regard to a house is satisfactory to Mrs. Adams and yourself. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that I have a message this moment from Mrs. Keppele (the owner) from which I learn that Mr. Bradford will certainly move out on the 4th of October; so that I hope to have...
347To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 3 September 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have after many efforts procured you a house at the corner of 4th & Arch streets now in the Tenure of Judge Bradford late Attorney Genl. of Pennsa. The rent is very extravagant and we have to procure a stable and coach house in the neighbourhood unless you chuse for the six months of the Session to have your horses at livery. General Knox agreed with me...
348To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The account of the Chinese trade is in many respects similar to information and conformable to experience I have had. I do not observe any thing contrary to what I have heard from authority. The accot. of the East India trade is minute so far as it goes, and gives some useful information. The increase of the consumption of the finer kinds of Teas deserves notice. The quantity of Specie (at 2...
349To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 27 August 1791 (Adams Papers)
I am honored this day with your letter enclosing one for Mr. W. Hamilton, and one for your Steward, both of which I have put into the way of being delivered to them. It will give me very great & sincere pleasure to be instrumental to the accommodation of Mrs. Adams & yourself, for which purpose I shall take all the pains in my power to procure a house, that will be suitable. Rents are much...
350To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 6 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to the Secretary of State the account of all the payments for lands, which have been made to the United States prior to this day being Drs. 687,563 70/100. The contract for land intended to have been made between the United States and Messrs. Flint and Parker, as will appear by reference to their letter of 18th. Octr. 1787 and to the resolution of Congress of...
351To 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...
352To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 19 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to make his acknowledgements to Mr. Jefferson for Sir John St. Clair’s pamphlet—the last nine lines of which are as free from reason and as full of passion as anything in Lord Sheffield. The little publication relative to Scotland is curious, and in parts interesting even to the United States. Mr. Coxe begs leave to add a few facts relative to the dutch commercial...
353To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 13 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 13 July 1791 . He received TJ’s note by Pearce and will give his attention “to fix a man who appears of so much importance to the United States. He communicated…very freely, and finding on my cautioning him about foreign seduction that he had been attacked in that way already at New York, I have prevailed on him to deposit his articles at once in the patent office. This will...
354To 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....
355To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 30 June 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you a continued bill of the Treasurer’s set of exchange, No. 1351, for five hundred dollars in your favour bearing date the 4th day of May 1791 and drawn on Benjamin Lincoln Eq. Collector of Boston. I beg leave respectfully to observe, that the Secretary of the Treasury relies upon your readiness to indemnify the United States for any injury that might arise to them...
356To 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...
357To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 23 June 1791 . Enclosing account of Cuba and statement of Newfoundland fishery for three years. Also sends the Virginia imports which TJ will see are “near a half a million greater in value” than register’s return, owing to later quarterly returns from some customhouses which were then deficient. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 22 June 1791 and so recorded in SJL —an...
358To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 15 June 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have had the honor to inform you of the payment of several sums of money to your Steward. You will find enclosed an acknowledgment from him, that he has received from me the whole five hundred dollars, which you were pleased to leave in my hands. I shall be much obliged, Sir, by your covering to me the receipt I gave you for this money. I had great pleasure in meeting my friend Colonel Smith...
359To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 25 May 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that on a second application of your Steward, I this day paid a second Sum of one hundred Dollars— A letter from the Supervisor of Virginia to a gentleman in this City mentions that the plan of the Bank does not appear to create any uneasiness there, and that he considers the excise or revenue law as likely to be popular on the South side of James River, where it...
360To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 4 May 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor avail myself of the opportunity preceeded by the honorable R. Morris Esquire of transmitting you a Draught at Sight on the collector of Boston for 500 Drs agreably to the your instructions. I had to you.— The remainder will be paid , as you will pleased to direct, on applications of your Steward. No occurrence worthy of being communicated to you has taken place since you left...