To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 8 December 1794
From Tench Coxe1
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 8, 1794. States that “contracts for the large Anchors can not be made in the U: S: upon terms more favorable than 12½ &13 cents, to be deliver’d in time, and that an importation of them from England can be made at 10 cents …2 the anchors wanted … being about 20 in number.”
LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives.
1. For information concerning the naval armament, see Henry Knox to H, April 21, 1794.
2. See H to Thomas Pinckney, June 25, 1794; Coxe to H, June 25, first letter of July 5, 1794.