181To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 30, 1794. Requests “that a Warrant may issue in favor of William Allibone Esqr Superintendent of the Delaware Establishments for four hundred & fifty Dollars to enable him to discharge the contingent expences for the quarter ending this day.” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives; LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of...
182To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find within this enclosure an estimate of the monies which are likely to be wanted in Georgia & the Carolines for the purchase of Live Oak & Cedar, & the compensations of the Wood cutters &ca. It is made with latitude, & for six months. As it is unknown at what place this wood will be procured, it is difficult to divide the sum exactly. Perhaps it may be well to deposite 11.000...
183To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The contract with Saml. Hughes for Iron cannon will require an advance of eight thousand Dollars, which he wishes to receive at the Baltimore branch of the bank of the U:S: I find there is a greater sum there. The bond to be Signed by the surety will be prepared for transmission to Mr. Gale, with a request to him to Judge of the perfect competency of the surety or sureties before he shall pay...
184To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 30, 1794. “It is necessary that I receive some indication of the points to which you wish the attention of Col: Alexander White to be drawn when he shall set out from Winchester to examine the capacities of Mr. Zanes Estate to supply the remainder of the Iron Cannon.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the...
185To 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.”...
186From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [1 July 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton will thank Mr. Coxe for the loan of Eighty Dollars for a day or two. AL , Tench Coxe Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. At the bottom of this note is written: “Recd. the above Eighty Drs. July 1. 1794.” Below that Coxe wrote: “The above is this day repaid to me. July 5th 1794.”
187To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 3 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 3, 1794. Requests that a warrant for five hundred dollars be issued “in favor of John Mease as agent for T. Marshall … on a/count of Whiskey purchased for the … Military supply.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives. Thomas Marshall.
188To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [5 July 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe will be very much obliged to Mr. Hamilton for the sum of 80 Drs. wch. he had the pleasure to lend him—if it be convenient to replace it. An unexpected call to pay off a Note for a gentleman to whom Mr. Coxe had lent his Name is the occasion of his troubling Mr. H. AL , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. At the bottom of this letter H wrote: “Mr. Meyer will please to pay the above...
189To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the pleasure to enclose the papers desired by the secretary of the Treasury. He is apprehensive that the copying and comparing all the papers he writes in pursuance of the Treasury Agency for the war department will be found impracticable, considering the other business of the Clerks. Mr. Coxe’s letter to Mr. White about Mr. Zane’s Iron works, had gone before the receipt of the...
190To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a request which I have this day made of the Secy. at war, the subject of which appears to merit your and his particular attention. Mr. Francis has been orally desired to make out a schedule of such things heretofore ordered thro’ him, the importation of which appears expedient or necessary. It would be very useful to me to receive from your office...