1To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [12 November 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
Owing to the absence of Mr Whelen the matter with his concern was not settled till just before my late illness. I am now just getting out. The Pattersons take back their balance, about 10,000 Ds in their Lands and we take a moiety of the remainder. Out of these Mr Church will have to the amount of his remaining 17¾ tracts, taking none but what have been ours, and by a fair draughting Lot. I...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 13 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Whelen informed me that he would call upon me soon to fix some preliminaries about the arbitration. I soon expect him but have not yet seen him on the subject. I have not heard of any improvement condition in regard to the lands of Aliens in Pennsylvania, and am satisfied there can be none to effect Mr. Church’s purchases with me. It would be an expostfact to provision—in equitable & void....
3To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Whelen & I do not understand that he had made a proposition to you to let Mr. Church take back what remains in their Hands of Mr. Church’s original interest in the lands sold him & Company. You will find on a revision of my Letter of the 17th. inst. that it does not convey that Idea and you will perceive on reflection that it could not. The matter stood thus. When you were here at the...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 17, 1796. On May 31, 1796, Coxe wrote to Hamilton and referred to “my Letter of the 17th. inst.” Letter not found. ] Coxe, who had been first a Loyalist and then a Patriot during the American Revolution, was a member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury from 1790 until the abolition of that office in 1792, and commissioner...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 17 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I mentioned to you that the Board of Property had decided in favor of Ball & Smiths Warrants, but I presume it has escaped your Memory. After this six months are given by our laws for an appeal to the courts of Law. I hoped that this would elaps—but about the last day the process was served. I have apprized my council, in the former stage, of the present situation of the matter & due care will...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 14 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have transmitted to Walter Rutherford Esqr. for two years intt. on my bond to J. B. Church Esqr. the sum of Six hundred Dollars which will be delivered to you or any gentleman in your office who will exhibit to him my Bond with a receipt for that sum thereon. I have been in the woods as I believe I informed you upon the Business of Ball & Smith’s contract. The advantages in favor of the...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [4 August 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
I have been prevented from answering your last letter partly by a journey into the woods, which I have since risqued in person to secure justice in laying the warrants under Ball & Smith, and partly by the difficulties arising with Messrs. Wheelen, Miller & Co. they had from me certain counter Notes for the Greater part of the Notes furnished by them, which I do assure you I was not able to...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 10 May 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Since I wrote you last I have recd. a reconveyance for eleven tracts of the land formerly Church & Coxe’s & sold to Wheelen Miller & Co—taken out by lot or draught. The deed was made to Mr. Church in consequence of our law being repeated, which gives foreigners a right to hold lands in Pennsa. & before your letter about Mr. Anthony appeared. If it be not agreeable to have the title so the deed...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 25, 1795. At the bottom of an account which Coxe enclosed in his letter to Hamilton on February 17–18, 1795, Coxe wrote : “(see letter or Note to Mr. Hamilton of Feby 25. 1795) with copy hereof.” Letter not found. ]
10To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [22 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Messrs. Wheelen & Miller & Co. not having sent me the papers relative to the part of Patterson’s & Co’s. concern on Friday I walked up to your House with the inclosed Bond, which was all that remained for me to do alone in the land concerns or the Business of the Loan to me. I regretted to find you were gone. I had a wish to pay my last respects to Mrs. H—— and Mrs. Coxe called within an hour...
11Enclosure: [Account with John B. Church], [17–18 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
To Tench Coxe Dr. (in accot. for the Investment of half of ten thousand Dollars in Lands) To part amot. of the debit to Ball & Smith ⅌ a/c 37..19..2½ To half amount of cost of Lands with Steedman ⅌ account 305..13..1¼ 647.15.10¼ To part of the amount of the cost of Lands with Ruston, Jackson & Compy. (being twenty One tracts about 8484 Acres—and 156 being out of three tracts—believed to...
12To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [17–18 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. T. Coxe presents his Comps. to Mr. Hamilton and incloses to him the account of the purchase of Lands from Pattersons & Co, and the account of the purchase in the Case of Ruston, Coxe & Co from Jackson, Steedman & Co. This last is that which was made to cover the disappointment in the Event of an unfavorable final issue in the Case of Ball & Smith. Mr. Coxe also adds a general Note of the...
13To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [13 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe presents his comps. to Col. Hamilton with a Statement of the Account for Lands in the case of Church, Coxe & Steedman —and in the Case of Church, Coxe, Ball, Smith &ca . The others are drawing out. These being ready are sent to give time for inspection. He has repeated his request for an Adjustment before monday in a letter to Wheelen Miller & Co. Copy, Tench Coxe Papers, Historical...
14Enclosure: Tench Coxe to George Washington, 31 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I trust you will believe my solemn assurance of you, that a very painful sense of duty has impelled me to the Communication, which I have now the honor to make to you. As it will be perceived, that it is one of those cases in which an obedience to that sense may produce inconveniencies, I address you, Sir, as much in confidence as you may conceive the nature of the case to admit. The inclosed...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 30, 1795. “I perceive, that Mr. Biscoe mentions in the extract of his letter returned to me this day, that he had enclosed his commission to the President. If the answer be sent which you desire, then the commission should go back to him.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1794–1795, National Archives. George Biscoe was collector of...
16To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 30, 1795. “I observe you are of opinion that no Act of the President can give concurrent Jurisdiction to officers of different districts &ca. I had entertained the hope that the 1st. Section (lines 11 & 12) of the act of the 5th of June 1794, would have enabled him to annex the River to each district, Survey and division, which the public service...
17To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 January 179[5] (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 30 179 [ 5 ]. “I have sent herewith the complete drawings of a thirty two pound Battering cannon…. The contractors, Brown and Francis & Co. & Hughes & Co. have each a complete set.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives. This letter is...
18To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 29 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 29, 1795. “Agreeably to what was done for the supply of 1794 it appears to be expedient to authorize the Supervisor of the Revenue in Kentucky to draw on Philadelphia for such sum, not exceeding four thousand dollars, as he may find necessary, in preference to drawing upon the Supervisor of Virginia….” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue,...
19To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Coxe presents his compliments to the Secretary of the Treasury and reminds him of the Subject of the Delaware piers, in lieu of those destroyed, as a harbour, by the building of Fortifications. Also of the Superintendence of the Light House at Cape Fear. He wishes to be informed whether the contract for Segwin Light House is to be proceeded in . Also of the Presidents determination in...
20To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 24 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The appointment of an Attorney of the United States for Kentucky has been anxiously desired by the Supervisor. The determination of the question raised in one of my late letters to you —whether the River Ohio can be subjected by an Act of the President to the concurrent Jurisdiction of the Supervisors of the Virginia and Ohio Districts, as also to that of the Inspectors and Collectors of the...
21To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 22 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
It was not my view in my communication of the 8th concerning Messrs. Downings application, to desire any thing to be paid to Messrs Wheelen & Co or to them, as in relation to their business with or for Mr. Elie Williams. I had engaged Messrs. Downings to supply the Philada. & Chester Divisions of the Pennsylvania militia by a letter written to them in consequence of yours, desiring me to make...
22To Alexander Hamilton from Matthew Clarkson, 19 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, January 19, 1795. “Your Letter of the 15th. Inst. met me last Saturday at this place on my return from Poughkeepsie. The offer of the Office of Commissioner of Loans by the President of the United States demands my warmest acknowledgments & meets my ⟨accept⟩ance provided the appointment can be deferred untill the 27th. Inst. To you Sir I will detail my reasons for wishing the...
23To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 19 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 19, 1795. Encloses “a draft for Six hundred Dollars Issued from the Treasury in favor of Jedidiah Huntington Esquire which he has returned as not necessary for the purposes for which it was intended.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National...
24To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 19 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
A doubt has been suggested by the Supervisor of Kentucky, whether the carriage tax for the first year is exigible and collectible in that district, under the circumstances following which are extracted from his letter. “These (the new Revenue laws) came to me as Inspector of the 7th Survey in the district of Virginia, and the necessary preliminary measures were taken on my part for carrying...
25To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 19 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I find from Col: Presley Nevill, that his father (Inspector Nevill) has just informed him that he is prepared to pay at sight, 6 to 7000 Dollars for Revenue received in the 4th Survey, and the further sum of 3000 Dollars at ten days sight. It will follow that any payments which the contractors may have to receive can be conveniently furnished to that amount by the Supervisors Bills. I am, ...
26To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The letter herein inclosed from Mr Dayton appears to require a degree of consideration from the executive Department of the Government. It was delivered to me yesterday by Collector Burr. It seems as if it had never been sealed. The date is at Philadelphia in the Session of Congress. The subject was not mentioned to me at any time to the best of my recollection and belief. Mr Burr says, the...
27To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 18, 1795. “It appears necessary that order should be taken upon the subject of gauging wines paying duty ad valorem. It is understood, that they are not gauged to establish the sum of duty , but it is necessary that they should be gauged to enable the inspectors of the Revenue to mark and certify the quantity . The expence of gauging and authority...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose to you some papers relative to a parcel of Goods, which have arrived at Boston under my Name & directed to me. It seems Mr. de la forest before he left directed some Articles to be shipt under cover of my Name without my Knowledge, but really for Mr. Fauchett, & himself. Mr. Delaforest wishes for an order to receive the goods at Boston free of duty alledging them to be for the Use of...
29To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 16 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 16, 1795. “I have this moment sent over to your office, a requisition of Col. Nevill for Three thousand dollars. As Mr McNair, for whom the money is wanted, leaves Philadelphia to day, it will be particularly desirable that a warrant for it may be got thro’ with expedition. It being the first money that Col. Nevill has received, there can be no...
30To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 14 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
It may be useful in the case of the suit for the carriage tax in Virginia, that the Attorney General be apprized, that by the laws of Virginia, the magistrates, singly, have exclusive Jurisdiction in all cases wherein the sum does not amount to six Dollars. The Carriage tax on some classes, is only one Dollar. The suit however may be brought for the tax upon a Coach or a Chariot, which are Ten...