71To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 15 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that the Charges on the Sally at Port au Prince are in colonial livres of which 8 are equal to a dollar nearly, tho not precisely. Mr. Coxe will transmit some fuller papers than those sent, which it was hoped in the interim might be of use. He has ascertained that Tar pays in G. Britain a duty of 11d. Sterling, and expects hourly further...
72To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [17 December 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson, that the silver crown of six livres Tournois is worth in the French W. Indies nine livres of the Colonies and that the livre Tournois according to the par of french coins is deemed conformable with that fact—that is 30s. of the Colonies are worth 20s. of France. Mr. C. will read the letter with care and have the honor to return it in person to...
73To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [6 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The bill relative to the debt having passed thro the House I hope an handsome conclusion will be made to the business of the Departments. I should not have troubled you again upon [it], but that I am well informed that a Member of the Senate, who opposed the bill in its present Shape said a week ago that “the whole of the Treasury clauses except the Compensations would be struck out in the...
74To George Washington from Tench Coxe, 11 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Having been informed by the Secretary of the Treasury, that you had been pleased to confide to me the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, I should have deemed it my duty immediately to have waited on you for the purpose of expressing my grateful sense of the honor confered upon me, and of respectfully informing you of my chearful obedience to your commands in this and every service in...
75To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 12 May 1792 (Adams Papers)
I hope this letter will find you and Mrs. Adams comfortably set down at Braintree, where your mind will have time to recover from the fatigues of a very discordant Session—There has been done however a good deal of important & useful business, which will conduce towards the great Desideratum of public order. The provision for the Election of the President & Vice President & for the contingent...
76To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [20 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I understand from Mrs. Hamilton that you do not expect to return from Newark for several days from which I conclude that you mean to make a complete arrangement of the Business of the Manufacturing Society. I am heartily glad of this tho I could have wished you were returned as I have gone thro the preparation of all the instructions, forms &ca. which are rendered necessary by the Alterations...
77To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, May 28, 1792. Encloses contract “for the digging and building of a well for the Use” of the Delaware lighthouse. Discusses “the causes of the extraordinary expence.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives.
78To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, May 31, 1792. “Prior to the recommencement of the building of the Light House on Bald Head, I found it necessary to make an examination of that part of the work which has been executed under the direction of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of North Carolina: and I do myself the Honor to state to you some ideas that have occured, together with...
79To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 10 June 1792 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor of your letter from the Town of Quincy, of the erection of which I was not before informed: nor did I ever hear you distinguished by the title of “ Braintree ” unless the tree of knowledge may be so called. Mr Pinckney is still here. I do not know precisely when he will depart. No ship, which he likes, is to be found in Phila. or N. York destined for England. The Sidney, of...
80To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, June 20, 1792. Transmits “for the purpose of submission to the President a contract entered into between the Superintendent of the Delaware light House, piers &c. and Thomas Davis and Thomas Connaroe junior, for the replacing of one of the piers which formed the harbour near Mud Island, which pier was carried away by the Ice at the Breaking up of the River...