To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 9 July 1794
From Tench Coxe1
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, July 9, 1794. “You will find under this cover Estimates2 of monies which will be wanted by the supervisor of New York3 for pickled provisions for the axe men & carpenters under Mr Morgan4 & which may be wanted for advances to them, Cheese, butter, liquors, Melasses &ca. by the Collector of New London in Connecticut.5 Mr. Francis6 having informed that Sulphur can be procured at less than the cost & charges of importation I have desired him to secure 100 to 120 tons.7 The cost will be from £2400 to £3000.”
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 background to this letter, see Henry Knox to H, March 29, April 21, 1794; H to Coxe, April 4, 1794.
2. “Estimate of money requisite to defray the expences of procuring and sending the woodsmen from Connecticut to Georgia” and “Estimate of money necessary for the cost & charges of the shipment of provisions at New York for the use of the Axemen and Carpenters in Georgia and the Carolines” (LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives).
3. Nicholas Fish. See Coxe to H, second letter of June 30, 1794.
4. John T. Morgan.
5. Jedediah Huntington.
6. Tench Francis.
7. Coxe to Francis, July 3, 1794 (LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives).