91To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [before 18 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The papers announce that the legislature is to rise in ten days. This critical and peculiar situation in which I am placed impels me, contrary to my intention, to address you once more before the conclusion of the Session. It was in the Month of Decemr. 1800, that a gentleman now in Washington then recently returned from that place, informed me here, that a number of the persons who were...
92To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 14 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Necessary attention in my Office, and the badness of the day preventing me from having the honor of waiting upon you as early as the case requires, I take the liberty to draw your attention to a little inaccuracy which has inadvertently taken place in the President’s proclamation of the 12th. Instant. You will perceive that in promising the reward of 500 dollars, it is offered for “the above...
93To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 19 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to make his acknowledgements to Mr. Jefferson for Sir John St. Clair’s pamphlet—the last nine lines of which are as free from reason and as full of passion as anything in Lord Sheffield. The little publication relative to Scotland is curious, and in parts interesting even to the United States. Mr. Coxe begs leave to add a few facts relative to the dutch commercial...
94To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 20 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Treasury Department, 20 July 1791 . In the unavoidable absence of the Secretary of the Treasury, Coxe requests the Secretary of State to have prepared and sent to the Treasury a correct list of U.S. consuls and their places of residence, being necessary for the collectors of the impost. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); in a clerk’s hand; endorsed by Remsen as received 20 July 1791, but not recorded in...
95To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 17 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
An application has been made to me, since I had the honor of seeing you, to know whether it will be illegal, or, in any respect, improper for a Citizen of the United States to accept the business and to perform the service of an agent for the prizes sent and to be sent into the port of Philadelphia by the French ships of war, public and private. I have promised the applicants information upon...
96To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 27 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive this afternoon your note relative to the value of the transportation of the whole produce of the United States to foreign markets. By this I understand the amount of the freight money that would be paid by the owners of our produce to the owners of the vessels in which they are laden, if they were always different persons. In the very imperfect state of the documents...
97To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 30 April [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to the Secretary of State a letter from Mr. Stephen Kingston relative to a foreign built Ship, which is stated to belong to Mr. Kingston of Philadelphia. This Vessel is not now in the United States but in Jamaica, Honduras or on the High Seas between them. She is British built, and has now a British register, it is presumed, as she could not without one enter...
98Enclosure: Tench Coxe’s Notes on Jefferson’s Draft Report on Commerce, [5 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on the Report of the Secretary of State, made in consequence of the reference of the House of Representatives of the day of 1791 [pa]ge 1 1 Nations —substitute Countries —or change the words “ Spain &ca.” 2 Quere the difference between Breadstuff and meals page 2 1 its Dominions —to prevent mistakes might be inserted as above
99To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [ca. 15 September 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
This letter is transmitted, respectfully, as the only information I possess of the Gentleman, tho I should rely on the recommendation of Mr. le Ray (de Chaumont) Junr. had he given one. RC ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR ); undated; on same sheet as James Anderson to Coxe, Paris, 9 June 1801, requesting a consular post in France, Spain, or Italy, and naming Jacques Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont as a...
100To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that the house of Pragers & Co. will supply some Bills on Amsterdam at 3/ Pennsa. Money, or 36 ninetieths of a dollar. The Treasury bills supplied for the use of the Department of State on the last occasions were at 364/11 Ninetieths, which the Merchants consider as the par . Not being in trade I would recommend an Application to Mr. Vaughan in regard to Messrs....
101To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [before 7 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
British private Vessels. The important and curious document, in this inclosure, appears to be well adapted to the use of the government of the U.S. It exhibits the whole of the private British Shipping owned in Great Britain, proper, & Ireland, exclusively of the Colonies, in August 1801. also their actual employment or situation. There are 124 pages at about 80 on a page giving 9920 Vessels....
102To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is only by candid representations of the disinterested, or the applications of the concerned, that you can add to that stock of information, which your own and your ministers knowledge afford. I trust therefore that in doing myself the honor to communicate these remarks, I shall contribute to your accommodation. The question of alterations in the list of officers, civil, and all others, may...
103To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [30 January? 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that pitch is certainly 11/ ⅌ 112℔ i.e. dutied to exclusion as a manufacture. Tar 11d. ⅌ barrl. and turpentine ⅔ ⅌ Cwt. Mr. Remsen’s copy of Mr. Coxe’s very rough minutes, corrected, is enclosed, also the amount of fur duties in England equal to 15 and 20 ⅌ Ct. ad valorem at the medium prices. Mr. Coxe will not fail to send the Return of Exports...
104To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 30 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 30 June 1791 . Enclosing “some notes on the Portuguese regulations” based on reliable sources and according with his own previous knowledge and the “known spirit of the Portuguese commercial System.” He will furnish a similar paper on the other cases, meanwhile adding summary data on the Swedish subject. Their West India trade (at St. Bartholomew’s) as free as possible, all...
105To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 20 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the opportunity by Mr. Madison to transmit to you a copy of a collection of papers which one of our printers has lately published and of which I request you will do me the honor to accept. They may assist to shew foreigners, our young people, and those, who have been out of the way of seeing for themselves, some of the considerable facts, which have affected the political and private...
106To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 4 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In the Course of public business it has been my lot and duty to meet a gentleman, who held a quadrennial situation on the first Wednesday in Decembr.—He had been recently in the army and is, as you will perceive, in the Senate. The inclosed voluntary letter (from the original on public file,) will prove how little calculation is to be made upon that determined hostility to me, which rival and...
107To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 13 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to excuse the liberty & the inconvenience of this application, & to believe that Nothing would induce to the step but the imperious dictates of duty to a family whose interests for more than twenty years I have greatly neglected. Thus circumstanced I reflect with seriousness & not without sensitivity that the time approaches when your retirement from public life will prevent my...
108To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 24 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The immense objects, for which the nations of Europe began to contend at the Commencement of the French revolution, excited a Spirit of Military enthusiasm unequalled in the history of Mankind. The numerous potentates combined against France, dreading the extension of the republican principle, underwent a corresponding excitement. The hierarchies and the aristocracies of rank and property,...
109To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 6 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive your letter of the 27th. Ultimo, and as I consider it to be your expectation, that nothing will be said on the first subject—to which it relates, I govern myself accordingly. In regard to those attentions to the public interests, which you are good enough to characterize as assiduous and useful, they are the result of a sense of duty. The “Res augusto donis,”...
110To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [ca. June 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to enclose to Mr. Jefferson a state of the exports of Sugar, coffee, cocoa and Cotton from Surinam for 1787, and some smaller articles for other years. None of these articles can be shipt elsewhere than to Europe, nor in any other than Dutch bottoms. A Dutch Merchant having informed Mr. Coxe that he has furnished Mr. Fitzsimmons with the Dutch account of Duties for Mr....
111To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [1790] (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you a very interesting report made in March last by a Comme. of the British Privy Council upon the subject of their corn trade. The two first paragraphs of the 7th page appear to merit particular attention, and more especially the last of them against which you will observe I have placed an index☞. The paragraph in page 22, marked with an index favors exceedingly the...
112To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [7 April 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that he has been attentive to the State of Exchange on Holland and Britain since last Monday Morning. He found that bills on England sold on that day and Tuesday at par on a credit of 60 days the buyer allowing the interest—and for cash at small discounts, about 1 ⅌Ct. or £165 currency for £100 stg. Dutch bills were about 3/ ⅌ guilder at the same...
113To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 1 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Being this day informed that the death of the late worthy Collector of this Port has taken place, I do myself the honor most respectfully to submit myself to your consideration as a candidate for that situation. As the Office has a direct relation to that pursuit in life to which I was regularly bred, and in which I have been habituated by practice, I respectfully trust that this step will not...
114To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, with Jefferson’s Note, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that he has purchased of Mr. John Wilcocks a bill on London at 174 ⅌Ct. to the amount of 5000 Drs. Mr. Wilcocks wishes for the Cash this day and will give Mr. Coxe the bills by the time Mr. Jefferson can send a check on the Bank. [ Note by TJ: ] gave instantly an order on the bank for 5000. D. payable to John Wilcocks or bearer. RC ( DLC ); with...
115To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of naval power is agitated every day in our seaports, Towns, because the Editors of Newspapers live by the patronage of persons interested in Trade. Discussions on the opposite side rarely appear. I have formed some opinions on the subject, which seemed worthy of examination. It seems idle to labor much for the profits of foreign trade, and to spend more money yearly in what is...
116To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 8 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to Mr. Jefferson an abstract from the general imports, intended to exhibit the quantum of manufactured supplies, which each foreign nation has the benefit of selling to the United States. The estimate is formed on a presumption that all the ad valorem articles from Europe and the E. Indies are Manufactures. This is almost universally true, and if it varies in...
117To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A gentleman of this place called upon me to day and stated to me the receipt of a letter by him evidencing some kind intentions towards me. There appears to be a necessity of making some remarks and explanations, which I hope will be excused. The reason of mentioning the object in a letter (covered to the Secy of State) from this place, was the certainty represented to me of a vacancy—the...
118To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope, Sir, that this letter will find [you] settled in your retreat at Monticello. It is the first which I have had the honor to address to you since your departure. I congratulate you on the temperate conduct of the French Convention towards the U.S. in regard to the late Altercations of Mr. Genet with our Government and his conduct in general. I understood yesterday from the P. that Mr....
119To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 7 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. T. Coxe returns, with his best respects, the pamphlet Mr. Jefferson was so good as to lend him. It certainly has merit both for information, and reasoning. But Mr: Coxe would wish to see An Enquiry into the means of Prosperity to the United States well handled, before he would think it safe to settle finally the commercial course they ought to steer. Commerce would in his opinion be found...
120To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to enclose to Mr. Jefferson a bill of Mr. John Wilcocks for £1077.11.9 Stg. which, at 174 ⅌Ct., amounts to 5000 Drs. Mr. Vaughan this day informed Mr. Coxe that he was negociating for 50,000 Drs. in Bills on London to be delivered on the 18th. of Augt., which he said he should procure on much more favorable terms than 74 ⅌Ct.—but he did not say how low. He added that...