231To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 23, 1794. “I have the honor of sending to you, herewith, two commissions for officers, designated as ‘Supervisors of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania &ca.’ It appears to me, that a question may arise, with respect to the validity of Official Acts performed by those Supervisors, by reason of the Stile of the designation of their...
232To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “I have received your letter of the 25th. inst: relative to anchors. You will find my letter of the 25th June, the highest supposed prices &c. of the anchors, and in mine of the 8th. inst. you will find the particular anchors yet wanted.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of...
233To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “It is with extreme concern that I enclose to you a letter of a very improper tenor indeed, from Messr. Nicholas Hoffman & Co. at New York, to Tench Francis Esqr. dated on the 22d instant, and this day received by me from the hands of Mr. Francis.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the...
234To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “Enclosed is a copy of a letter from T: Francis Esqr: of this date, concerning advances for Fort Mifflin &ca. You will be pleased to cause such order to be taken on it as the necessity of the case shall appear to require.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and...
235To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “A considerable impediment to the arrangement of compensations adjusted on Thursday night has just occurred. The 13th Section of the law of the 5th June has been inadvertently caused to refer to the 30th day of June 1795 (‘next’) by the postponement of the consummation of the Act from the preceding month until the commencement of the...
236To 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...
237To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe presents his compliments to Mr. Hamilton, with the inclosed, just received from a Committee of the Snuff manufacturers. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1794–1795, National Archives.
238To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25[–27] December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have Just received your letter of the 24th instant with the papers from the President of the U: S: and the letter of the Secretary at War contained in the same enclosure. It is proper for me to remind You that the arrangement which was made for procuring the timber for the Frigates, was the result of our United Judgments founded upon enquiry & consideration, that the appointments of the...
239To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 27 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose to you, a letter to me from Tench Francis Esqr. this moment received, as the explanation of his application of yesterday for Cash. You will observe he now requires 35,000 Dols. You will perceive that it would be necessary to my expressing an opinion, 1st That a statement of the business between the Treasy. & the Agent has been furnished with your letter of the 4th of April committing...
240To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I finished yesterday my letter relative to the Arrangements for procuring the timber from Geora. having commenced the same on Christmas day in Consequence of the receipt of your letter of that date. This last communication (which it will require two days to copy) and that made under the date of the 22d. inst. concerning the naval armament in consequence of the order of the House of...