From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [1 August 1794]
To Tench Coxe1
[Philadelphia, August 1, 1794]
Dr. Sir
Sundry papers were sent to you to day by Judge Wilson to get the hand writing proved. Did you get them? Has the needful been done? Have they been returned? Pray be in Town tomorrow Morning at seven oClock.2
Yrs
A Hamilton
ALS, Tench Coxe Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1. Coxe wrote on the back of this letter that he had received it on August 1, 1794. The “Sundry papers” which James Wilson, associate justice of the Supreme Court, had sent to Coxe obviously concerned the Whiskey Insurrection in western Pennsylvania. See “Conference Concerning the Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania,” August 2, 1794, note 9. For background information on the Whiskey Insurrection, see “Deposition of Francis Mentges,” August 1, 1794.
2. Coxe endorsed this letter “ansd.” Letter not found.