1051To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
It was my wish to have forwarded to you sooner, the enclosed paper, No. 6, by way of answer to the queries I had the honour to receive from you, the 26th of last month, but I could not revise the facts with sufficient care, till this time. You will observe, I have pursued a mode different from that which the form of the queries pointed out, thinking that “ a present state of the navigation of...
1052To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 6 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ November 6, 1793. On November 18, 1793, Hamilton wrote to George Washington and enclosed “a communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 6th instant.” Letter not found. ]
1053To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [February 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
to british Goods and habits in trade than any other Circumstance. Mr. De Marbois & Mr. De Cheamont & the Count de Moustier & Mr. de la forest in Newyork have so far enterd into those Ideas that in several conversations with them they have conceded to me that it was therefore the Interest of france to promote the growth of manufactures in America & nothing is more evident in my View of things....
1054To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 23, 1794. In answer to “enquiries … made by a committee of the house of Representatives relative to the clerks in the public offices,” lists the clerks in his office, their duties, and their compensations. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1794–1795, National Archives. On December 17, 1794, the House of Representatives appointed a...
1055To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 1 November 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, November 1, 1794. “Mr. James Byers applies for four hundd. Doll. on a/count of his contract for casting ten brass Howitzers dated the 23rd day of July 94.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives. Byers was a resident of Springfield,...
1056To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 18, 1793. On March 22, 1793, Hamilton sent to George Washington “a Communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue, of the 18 instant.” Letter not found. ]
1057To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 15 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President being returned I have prepared the inclosed act relative to the State of Kentucky and the Northwestern and southern Territories upon the principles which occurred in conference during his absence. The additional Inspectors if created, will only require appointments by the President, as the inspectorships were erected by the Act of arrangement heretofore made. A sketch of an...
1058To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to your desire I have the honor to in-close to you a draught of a supplementary arrangement of the Business of the Revenue, and of the compensations to the Officers employed in the supervision, inspection and collection thereof, grounded upon the plan delineated in the act of the President of the 15th. day of March 1791. In transmitting this draught for your modification and for...
1059To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [10 December 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to remind you that the propriety of a communication from the President to the Legislature upon the subject of the Cessions of Light houses &c heretofore made, & to be made hereafter, was intended to be submitted to the consideration of the President in the beginning of the present Session. With great respect I have the honor to be Sir, yr. mo Obedt. Servant LC , RG 26,...
1060To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 22 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the honor to receive this day the order of the House of Representatives relative to the measures that have been adopted concerning the naval armament, in your letter of the 20th. instant. It was on the 4th. day of April that a participation with you in the Treasury business for the War Department was committed to this office. After the requisite examination into the objects to be...
1061To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 1 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 1, 1794. Requests “that a warrant be issued in the name of Tench Francis Esqr. Agent for military purchases for twenty five Thousand Dollars.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives).
1062To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 6 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, August 6, 1794. “I have the honor to request you will place the sum of four thousand & forty seven dollars & 22 cents in the hands of Nathaniel Gorham Esquire of Boston for the purpose of paying for a quantity of copper & tin, necessary for making ten eight inch Howitz, and for a small advance upon the workmanship, agreeably to a contract with Paul Revere...
1063To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I trust that the first reason suggested, in your letter of the 28th inst. is that which has occasioned the letter it returned to me. It appeared indispensable that you should see it, as Mr. Francis found himself impelled to shew it to me, & requested advice. Messr. N: H: & Co. have had two or three Agencies for the purchase of Objects of no great size, which have been terminated. They were...
1064To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Coxe presents his complts. to the Secy. of the Treasy. & requests that he will be pleased to take the necessary measures for the reception of the whiskey (to be purchased for 1795) at the deposite posts of Fort Washington & Pittsburg, and wherever besides the public service may be deemed to require it to be received. A Letter this day received from Kentuckey expresses a wish that this may...
1065To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 25, 1794. At the foot of a memorandum dated September 29, 1794, Coxe wrote: “The above is the original note of the Contracts referred to in my Letter of the 25 Septbr. 94 to the Secy. of the Treasury.” Letter not found. ] Coxe wrote two letters to H on this date concerning contracts. The contracts which Coxe discussed in this letter to H concerned stakage on the North...
1066To 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...
1067To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 18, 1792. Encloses “an account of Abraham Hargis the Contractor for sinking and completing the well at the Cape Henlopen or Delaware light House.” Discusses the terms of the contract and compares it with the contract for the repair of the lighthouse at Cape Henry in Virginia. Discusses the compensation of the keeper of the Portland lighthouse. LC ,...
1068To 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...
1069To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 25, 1792. Transmits and explains “a contract made by the Collector of Ports-mouth in New Hampshire with Titus Salter for keeping and supplying the light house on New Castle Island at the Mouth of Piscataqua River.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives. Joseph Whipple. A copy of this contract may be found in RG...
1070To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 4, 1793. “I have the honor to inform you that on the receipt of Mr. J. N. Cummings’s letter to you relative to the case of Mathias Brewer, I wrote to him for information on certain points, which appeared necessary. I desired him to communicate the same, with a general State of the Case, to the Supervisor.… I am in daily expectation of the papers and...
1071To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [27 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 27, 1793. In an undated letter written sometime in 1797 to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Coxe reviewed his correspondence with Hamilton concerning the execution of the revenue laws in Pennsylvania. In the course of the letter Coxe wrote: “The Amendments proposed in my letters of the 11th. Decr. 1792 & 27th. of August 1793.” Letter of August 27, 1793, not found. ] ADf , Papers of...
1072To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 18, 1793. On May 22, 1793, Hamilton wrote to George Washington : “The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit to the President of the UStates a communication of the 18 of April, from the Commissioner of the Revenue.” Letter not found. ]
1073To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, May 20, 1794. Requests “a Warrant for eight hundred Dollars for the purpose of paying the balance due to the Coppersmith for his work on the Bald head Lantern, and to make a further payment to the Blacksmith.” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives. John McCauley. See Coxe to H, February 18 , March 5, 1794 . Samuel Wheeler. See H to...
1074To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 17, 1792. “I have the honor to in-close you a copy of an original Certificate transmitted to me by Thomas Newton Junr. Esquire, and signed by Lemuel Cornick the person employed by him to oversee the building of the Chesapeak light House. It appears from this Document that Mr. John McComb Junr. had completed the execution of his contract on the 2nd...
1075To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 28, 1794. On February 28, 1794, Hamilton sent to George Washington “a Communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue, of this date, with its enclosures.” Letter not found. ]
1076To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [8 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I consider it as a duty to communicate the substance of a conversation, which I had this Evening with a intelligent citizen of Philada. on whose veracity I rely, and who, in common affairs is far from inaccurate. He informed me that his Catholic Majestys Commissioners were lately sitting with him, when a gazette was brought in; which contained the accot. of the Indian Movements in the Southern...
1077To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 10 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, November 10, 1792. “I have the Honor to inform you, that the Supervisor of North Carolina has communicated to me the Resignation of William Wynne, John Baker and Edmund Sawyer Esquires, as Inspectors of the Revenue for the ports of Wynton, Bennets Creek Bridge and Pasqustank River Bridge, of which ports they were also Surveyors.…” LC , RG 58, Letters of...
1078To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 15 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 15, 1794. The clothing contractors for the Service of 1795 have requested of me to procure them an advance of 15 or 20,000 Dols.… I wish part of that sum to be advanced to them as may be convenient. The articles they are to supply will amount to about 120, 000 Drs. in all.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to...
1079To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 18, 1794. “I have the honor to inclose to you a letter from the Superv. of Maryland on account of the pay of Genl. Smith’s Detachment.… I have sent a copy to the Secy. at War and also because the agency of this office for the War Departmt. having been interfered with by some operations of other agents not made known to me, I am without the necessary...
1080To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 4, 1794. “The enclosed contract between Wm. Allibone and M: Vanduzen is transmitted for the purpose of submission to the President. I am satisfied that a more favorable contract cannot be effected, with a workman equally to be relied on for fidelity, care & ability.…” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives. The contract between...