Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 January 179[5]

From Tench Coxe

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 30 179[5].1 “I have sent herewith the complete drawings of a thirty two pound Battering cannon…. The contractors, Brown and Francis & Co.2 & Hughes & Co.3 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.

1. This letter is mistakenly dated “1794.”

2. This Providence, Rhode Island, firm was a part owner of the Furnace Hope. See Coxe to H, June 27, 30, second letter of August 9, October 8, 1794.

3. Samuel Hughes operated the Cecil Iron Company at Havre de Grace, Maryland. See Coxe to H, June 27, third letter of June 30, October 8, 1794.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 January 179[5]
    Author
    Coxe, Tench
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    30 January 1795

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 30 January 179[5],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0124. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 18, January 1795 – July 1795, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, p. 210.]

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