To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 23 September 1794
From Tench Coxe1
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, September 23, 1794. Requests a “Warrant to be Issued for the sum of two thousand Dollars, for the purpose of making a payment of that sum on a/count of a contract for Iron cannon ball & ballast or Kentledge, to L. Holingsworth & Son as agents for the Company of the sd. contractors, consisting of Richard Edwards, George Leonard, Levi Holingsworth and Paschal Holingsworth.”2
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 in 1794, see Henry Knox to H, April 21, 1794.
2. The contract with Levi Hollingsworth and Son, a Philadelphia merchant firm, was dated July 9, 1794. See Coxe to Edwards, Leonard, and Levi and Paschal Hollingsworth, July 24, 1794 (LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives).