551To 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....
552To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [1790] (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you a very interesting report made in March last by a Comme. of the British Privy Council upon the subject of their corn trade. The two first paragraphs of the 7th page appear to merit particular attention, and more especially the last of them against which you will observe I have placed an index☞. The paragraph in page 22, marked with an index favors exceedingly the...
553To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [7 April 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that he has been attentive to the State of Exchange on Holland and Britain since last Monday Morning. He found that bills on England sold on that day and Tuesday at par on a credit of 60 days the buyer allowing the interest—and for cash at small discounts, about 1 ⅌Ct. or £165 currency for £100 stg. Dutch bills were about 3/ ⅌ guilder at the same...
554To 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...
555To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope, Sir, that this letter will find [you] settled in your retreat at Monticello. It is the first which I have had the honor to address to you since your departure. I congratulate you on the temperate conduct of the French Convention towards the U.S. in regard to the late Altercations of Mr. Genet with our Government and his conduct in general. I understood yesterday from the P. that Mr....
556To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to enclose to Mr. Jefferson a bill of Mr. John Wilcocks for £1077.11.9 Stg. which, at 174 ⅌Ct., amounts to 5000 Drs. Mr. Vaughan this day informed Mr. Coxe that he was negociating for 50,000 Drs. in Bills on London to be delivered on the 18th. of Augt., which he said he should procure on much more favorable terms than 74 ⅌Ct.—but he did not say how low. He added that...
557To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Crew, 22 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing for you the morning chronicle for this day; it contains a motion by Mr. Gray for an address to the King against the War with France, which paper may be acceptable to you, should the subject it contains not have reached you before. In order the better to enable me to serve my friends, and that neither their interest nor my own may suffer should business at any...
558To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Crew, 17 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose to you four newspapers, which contain some parliamentary debates, which it may be agreeable for you to receive.—I shall be glad to have the honour of receiving your commands in any thing it may be in my power to serve you. I am with the greatest respect Sir Your most obedt Servt, RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 17 Mch. 1791 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures not identified,...
559To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Crew, 21 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
London 21 Aug. 1789. A Virginian, he left London last Oct. for Virginia where he spent winter and spring, arriving back about two months ago. Will make London his “permanent residence for mercantile business with … friends in America.” He is confident he can serve TJ as well as any other person there and will be much mortified if TJ does not make use of him one time or another.—He has letter...
560Petition and Memorial from Lewis Crousillat, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
To Thomas Jefferson Esquire Secretary of State for the United States of America. The Petition and Memorial of Lewis Crousillat of the City of Philadelphia Merchant Respectfully Sheweth. That your Memorialist Came to this Country from France in the year One Thousand seven hundred and eighty one and settled in the city of Philadelphia where he hath continued to reside and carry on Business as a...