31To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 24 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 January 1805, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to transmit in this inclosure my Accounts for the Agency & Expenses, in the Business of the 400 Copies of the Laws adjusted with Mr. Carey, also for Expenses of transporting the old box of Laws to Governor Sevier, & the old Trunk of Stationary to Govr. Harrison. They are in distinct Accounts as indicated in your letter of the 8th. Instant....
32To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 14 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
I feel very happy in the effect upon many well disposed men, not attached to the administration, which the letter on impressments has produced. I published it with a little introduction calculated to make it bear on the course of conduct respecting the intended Treaty. The sentence at the end of my note has reference to matters in relation to impressments as they might appear in a British...
33To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to send you a copy of an examination into the Subject of the Spoliations of the neutrals, which appears to me likely to be of some use in considering the french decree, even if your letters from our minister should be less satisfactory than his letter to Mr. Lee warrants us to believe. The publisher having given me a few copies I have sent one to the President, one to the Secy...
34To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday the letter you did me the honor to transmit of the 27th. March. Its contents shall be private & confidential. It is for that reason that I send you, in the rough draught, some preliminary and direct views of the subject. I thought it best to lose no time, and therefore devoted all of yesterday, which I could spare from public business, to rehearsals and reflexion, with my...
35To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Carey being prepared to deliver yesterday a number of sets of the Laws of the U.S. they were recd. cased & shipt agreeably to the inclosed bill of Lading on board the Schooner Hyland, Jno. Hand Junr. Master in two cases directed to “ The Secretary of State Washington .” She is expected to sail in three days. This being the first mail after the Books were ready, I avail myself of it to give...
36To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 13 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
The decided information brought hither thro NewYork, in the letters & papers pr the Thetis brig, Capt. McDonnald, is by this time in your possession in all its details. No doubt your advices by Charleston & other wise have been equally full as to the names of the culpable. I have learned, in a certain way, that Mr. Eaton is expected here in the course of a journey to Washington city, and that...
37To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 11 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you official copies of two Patents of the King of Great Britain for Land in West Florida, this day received from William Lyman Esquire, Consul of the U.S. in London. One of them is to George Tead for 2000 acres on Mobile River, recorded May 4. 1770 in Book E fo. 14 Recorders office West Florida, as certified by Fras. P⟨on⟩;ssett D. Recorder. The other is to Mrs....
38To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The meeting held here this day has gone off tranquilly. A set of resolutions were adopted the contents of which I am unable to state, as I could not hear them. I presume they go upon the general ground of agreeing to support the government in measures against the late british excesses. The meeting was mixt, numerous & respectable. Some circumstances have occurd on this occasion which merit...
39To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 5 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 November 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to inclose to you a bill of Lading for one box of books containing fifty eight sets of the laws of the U.S. Tho Mr. Carey assures me that the ⟨o⟩thers will be ready for any vessel that shall sail after the 10th. instant, I thought ⟨i⟩t best to forward these, as they might be wanted.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p.; docketed...
40To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 5 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 September 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to inform you that I have shipt to Governor Claiborne a case containing the remainder of the sets of the laws for the use of his Government. The Number was 39. I have recd. his acknowledgement of the former parcel. There are 113 sets preparing for Washington, being printed and bound. When they go I will forward a Note of the whole, with...
41To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 27 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
In the present critical state of our affairs, I take the liberty to offer to your consideration a suggestion which appears to me of great importance. The injuries to neutral rights have, as I believe, been produced by the conduct and example of great Britain in the form of Orders of her executive government abrogating in their Admiralty and superior prize courts the written or customary law of...
42To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 28 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I received this day three letters of various dates from my brother in Law Mr. Charles Davenport Coxe, of the U. S. marine Corps. It appears that they must have been long on the way. One of them covered the inclosed letter from him to you. I collect from Mr. Coxe’s letter, that he is willing & desirous to remain in the situation as successor to a Mr. Dodge, in which Mr. Lear has placed him, pro...
43To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 21 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
A case of so much importance to the U. S. has occurred here, that I do myself the honor to inclose to you a copy of the opinions of Ch. J. Tilghman and Judge Smith (of the Supe. Co. of Pa.) which was lent to me by Mr. Du Ponceau. He was of course for France, and Mr. C. Hare for the officer. In the course of the discussion, it appeared, that Mr. Bond was offered to prove that British Deserters...
44To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 3 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have conferd with Mr. Carey since I had the honor to receive your letter of the 30th. Ulto. He expects to deliver 150 sets of the laws immediately, and very soon after 100 more. The Amount of the $2000 will therefore be soon delivered. I presume that I shall hear from the Treasurer this day or to morrow so that I can be perfectly punctual as to 250 or 260 of the first copies. I have...
45To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I understand to day that the coming out of Lord Selkirk is certain, and that he is to come in the place of Mr. Erskine. It is also stated to me that the British Government has adopted a rule that no minister shall go from England to any foreign Government, who is unmarried, "particularly to our government" This seems to be considered as merely calculated to keep them disengaged from connexions...
46To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 24 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
The great importance of the present crisis occasions me earnestly to wish for a copy of the report on our external relations, which is understood to have been recently communicated, as soon any spare ones may be recd. from the press, and be permitted to circulate among our citizens. I beg the favor of your desiring one of the gentlemen of the Department to cover one to me. Tho it is perfectly...
47To James Madison from Tench Coxe, November 1807 (Madison Papers)
This letter goes to you as a citizen. I have no copy of it, or the paper it encloses. If that paper seems to you (as a citizen, who loves his country and has a goodwill for the writer) likely to do good, it may take any course, altered or unaltered, as may seem best. My information is imperfect, my views of course limited, & liable to be incorrect, and I may feel too much. Our Country does not...
48To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 5 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to inclose you a letter for the President which I request the favor of you to deliver or forward with such addition, if any, as you may judge proper. I have written to Mr. Gallatin at NewYork, by the mail of this day. It was at a period very remote from this, that I had first the pleasure to become acquainted with you, and I trust you have found me ever since in the ranks of...
49To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 9 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 May 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “This vessel (the Hiland, Hand Master) remaining in port, I have the Honor to inform you that a further shipment has been made of 38 sets of the Laws, for which a bill of Lading is enclosed. The vessel was expected to sail about this time. “I shall send only 200 copies to Washington ’til I am informed whether the quantity for Louisiana is 100 or 200. No time will...
50To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 22 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 October 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “I have assurances, that Mr. Carey will furnish all the remaining Laws in time to be shipt by any Vessel which shall offer after the 1st. of November. I have before had the Honor to inform you of the shipment & forwarding of the full quantities for upper & lower Louisiana. I have made the business the subject of a particular conversation this day. There are...
51To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 13 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 February 1803, Philadelphia. The house of Coxe and Frazier, in which he was formerly engaged, has a claim to a tract of land “which is a part of a larger tract on or near to the waters of Bayou Pierre & the East Bank of the River Mississippi.” This was conveyed to him in 1790 by Edward Jones, who is now in Gallatin’s office. The original tract was granted by Great Britain to General Lyman,...
52To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1807 (Madison Papers)
Dear Sir Very pressing business of the Army & indian department, with some other circumstances & the impossibility of accomplishing, in a short time, conversations with others sufficiently casual in appearance have prevented my thinking as closely and seriously upon the subject of the treaty, as I earnestly desired, when your wishes and the public interests called me to the duty. I have...
53To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I hope the extraordinary time will afford an excuse for offering to you the inclosed notes. They require no answer and are not expected to receive one. The language of impartial native federal Merchants on the day before the French decree was recd. was, "that we ought to consider as a favor all the trade we had, for England had the power to cut off the whole, and power was right all the world...
54To James Madison from Tench Coxe, June 1807 (Madison Papers)
(Private) There are many symptoms of foreign and domestic eagerness upon the subject of the business of the trials to be held next month in N. York. A few days ago a well known shorthand writer mentioned to me casually in the street that he had received, without a name, a note containing bank bills for $100, that he could not tell from whence it came, and that the note stated that the money...
55To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 4 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
I find among my collection of documents in relation to our foreign trade a book full of tables, statements, and representations, which tho written under a very different state of things from that now existing, must be of considerable use in estimating our prospects. I have the pleasure to send it by the mail, of Monday the 4th. Jany. & I retain this letter one day that it may serve as an...
56To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 17 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1804, Philadelphia. “Mr. Thomas Benger of the County of Philadelphia goes to Washington for the purpose of obtaining a patent for the preparation of oak bark for dying. He wishes for the honor of being made known to you & through you to the Board for granting patents. Soon after the peace of 1783 this gentleman with a numerous connexion moved from Newfoundland to our county of...
57To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The proclamation is well received here by a very large proportion of the community. It is however suggested from a quarter by no means unfriendly, that it would have been agreeable and useful, if the impressment of our Seamen, who were taken from the frigate had been as distinctly and positively affirmed as their American birth. The circumstances of their escape from the British service & the...
58To James Madison from Tench Coxe, January 1807 (Madison Papers)
It is proper that the Government should understand the language held in so important a city as this by the federal partizans, in the present Crisis: I am well assured by information and by my own hearing, that they say "let the Sth.Wn. Country go. We can still trade with them. New England will do nothing to prevent it. They will not stir a step. We should have had an army—we must have an army....
59To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 10 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to transmit you a Note of the monies expended, and to be expended by me for your Department, in relation to the Laws of the United States. This is done to facilitate your Statement for appropriation, which will of course soon go to the Treasury. Mr. Carey has been paid from time to time as he delivered the Books except that I sent him...
60To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 11 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 5th. instant came to my hands yesterday afternoon, and the mail will depart in two hours. On the rect. of it, I went to the house of Mr ——s brother in law, where he lodges when here, but find he has not returned, and is supposed by his friends in this place to be yet in Washington. I suppose he may have gone from thence to Norfolk, Baltimore or Philada. where he has...