Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 3 December 1794

From Tench Coxe1

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 3, 1794. “In consequence of a second experiment to provide for the stakage of Pamplico and Matchapungo Rivers, and the Navigable Creeks to the Town of Washington … Green Parker has reduced his terms from 100 to 79 Dollars.… I beg the favor of your obtaining the pleasure of the President upon the proposal.”2

LC, RG 26, Lighthouse Deeds and Contracts, National Archives; LC, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters, Vol. I, National Archives.

1. For background to this letter, see H to George Washington, September 29, 1794.

2. The following statement appears at the bottom of this letter: “The Secretary of the Treasury Philada. Decbr. 8th 1794. The reduced terms as mentioned within are approved. Go. Washington.”

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 3 December 1794
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    Coxe, Tench
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    3 December 1794

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 3 December 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0399. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, August 1794 – December 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 419.]

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