31To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 14 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have been requested to transmit to you the papers in relation to Mr. William Griffith Montgomery, which I have now the honor to inclose. His father is one of that numerous body of natives of Ireland, whom the American war of 1775 found here. He took an active part in the revolutionary contest to its close. His mother was a native of this city, a sister of Dr. S. P. Griffith’s and a niece of...
32To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 4 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have sent to our greater seaports from New Orleans to Portsmouth N. H. to different friends, copies of the dispatch on impressment. You will see from the enclosed paper how seasonable the important contents of that paper are. It is true that many circumstances will induce men of all parties to support our opposition to G. B. whether of war, or less seriousness. But every day convinces me...
33To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 3 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 April 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “As I am not possessed of the account of Mr. Stevens, and am uncertain whether it is your wish to include the bill he drew upon me I shall be much obliged by an explanation of your wishes. My Sales & the net proceeds could be rendered, and paid over instantly. I shall write Mr. Stevens upon the subject and beg the favor of your instructions. “It is discovered...
34To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 24 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you a copy of a paper, which is written, in part, with a view to exemplify the mode in which it is considered, that the press and the operations of the offices or of some proper agents ought steadily to develope the cardinal truths and the practical details, on which are to be founded those vast and important aids, which internal trade can afford to Agriculture....
35To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 31 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
An original letter from a house of the first character in Liverpool, of the 7th. Ulto. is now in my hands. It mentions that "the import of cotton from the East Indies, has amounted, in 5 Mos., & 7 days of 1807, to 49.213. bales, and that a further importation from the same quarter into G Britain will take place from September to Decemr., of 50.000 bales more, that the present use of India...
36To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 31 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am astonished to learn that Mr. B. Mifflin deputy Commy died yesterday suddenly. I entreat your consideration of my name for the office, or for that of Mr. Duncan, under all the circumstances of my family. I say with Sincerity that the times require my appointment to the D. Commys. office. Mr. Irvine is a mere lawyer, unacquainted with the walks of trade. I write at the dawn of day, having...
37To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 22 October 1788 (Madison Papers)
As I know your anxiety upon the Subject of the State legislatures, I have great Satisfaction in assuring you that by the returns of our new house at least 38 are firmly attached to the Constitution. The whole number is 69, but we have no returns of the greater part of the remainder. I think we have the best ground to believe the house will be 40 to 29 at least—and a very able man, Mr. Findlay,...
38To James Madison from Tench Coxe (Abstract), ca. 11–16 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
Ca. 11–16 Apr. 1805 . “I have the honor to write to you in consequence of an application from Mr. Clement B. Penrose, who is desirous of an appointment in the Louisiana Territory under the Government. He is a gentleman of about 34 years of age, married, his [ sic ] several children, and is a branch of two old and respectable Pennsa. families. He read law about eighteen months under the late...
39To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
The great importance of the Florida and Louisiana Business has occasioned me to trouble you with some extracts from a considerable french Geographical work of 1741, which was reprinted in 10 or 12 Volumes 1767, after the French Cession of Louisiana. I believe the Spaniards in office here are very uneasy at the expressions in the report of the Comme. of the Reps. lately made public with respect...
40To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 3 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 February 1804, Purveyor’s Office. Has just acknowledged receipt of the U.S. treasurer [Thomas Tudor Tucker]’s order for a sum which agrees with that mentioned in JM’s 28 Jan. 1804 letter. “Mr. Stevens’s bill has not yet appeared.” “The Sal ammc., Lac &c were sold on the day advertised. I have sent twice for the vendue account, but have not received it. When I shall obtain it the necessary...
41To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 4 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
Knowing the attachment to freedom and humanity, which mark your character I feel a solicitude to bring into your view the Situation of the people of Ireland in the United States. You will not understand that I recommend any measures in regard to them or their unhappy country. But, if any in Authority here have forgotten our engagements of 1775, if they have denied them the proferred rights of...
42To James Madison from Tench Coxe (Abstract), 18 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
18 June 1805, Philadelphia . “On my return from a short visit to my family, I had the honor to receive your letter of the 11th. instant. I did not expect any immediate benefit to the U.S. to follow my communication of the paper in my last, yet I felt a disposition to trouble you with the perusal, because I had some reason to believe that the paper with the letter, which accompanied it,...
43To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 13 January 1791 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to request a few Minutes conversation with Mr. Madison this Evening at 7 or ½ after 7 OClock on the subject of the Enquiries he made at the Treasury. If agreeable he will call on Mr. M. at his lodgings for that purpose, unless he shall be informed by a Note directed to him at the Treasury, before three OClock that it will not be convenient then. In that Case he wishes...
44To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 24 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
One of my neighbours when I lived in this place, Mr. Du Ponceau is about to publish a collection of state papers calculated to illustrate some important points of public law. One of them which he shewed me appeared to be so important that I begd a copy, which I might send to Washington. I have the pleasure to inclose it. You will observe it expressly mentions wheat, meat &ca. not to be...
45To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [ca. 12 September 1814] (Madison Papers)
The inclosed view of the British population is most respectfully submitted, at this crisis. Physical strength, except as to recruits to serve in the Atlantic, tho less than among the whites is a fair item, in relation to estimates of the value of even the E. Indian population. Seapoys, sailors, cutters of ship timber &ca are commonly derived from that country. But if we consider all the...
46To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 25 January 1791 (Madison Papers)
In pursuance of the intention I had the honor to intimate to you last week I have commenced the collection of the documents necessary to make out the various statements. On Saturday evening I sketched out a plan for the Tonnage which will exhibit all the information, I think, that can be extracted from the returns of the collectors in their present form. It is as follows—A statement of Tonne....
47To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 28 December 1787 (Madison Papers)
I trouble you once more with an Attempt of mine to explain a point connected wth. the new federal constitution. Finding from a conversation with Mr. Wilson & Dr. Rush that an Idea in Mr. R. H Lee’s letter to your Governor concerning the commercial powers of Congress was doing mischief in Virginia I devoted last Sunday to an investigation of it. I take the liberty of enclosing a couple of...
48To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 27 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
From your letter with respect to the Convention at B. I have been anxious to procure the Remr. of Mr. Lloyd’s debates to send to Mr. King. There were some pages more struck off, which I have obtained and cover them to you with a letter to be forwarded as before. I beg your pardon for the trouble I give & the freedom I have used. I find our Opposition were possessed of the temper of the Western...
49To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 4 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
As I know you lodge at Mrs. Ellsworths I take the liberty of troubling you wth. a request that you will oblige me so far as to engage a chamber for me in her house. And if possible one exposed to the South tho it should be in the upper story. I expect to leave Philadelphia for my fathers seat to Morrow, and shall return my sulkey from thence and proceed in the Stage so as to reach New York on...
50To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 24 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 January 1805, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to transmit in this inclosure my Accounts for the Agency & Expenses, in the Business of the 400 Copies of the Laws adjusted with Mr. Carey, also for Expenses of transporting the old box of Laws to Governor Sevier, & the old Trunk of Stationary to Govr. Harrison. They are in distinct Accounts as indicated in your letter of the 8th. Instant....
51To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 February 1788 (Madison Papers)
If you thought it worth attention to publish N. 1. of the Pennsylvanian perhaps No. 2, enclosed may also be properly inserted in the same paper. The first was in Hall & Sellers’s of 6th. sent before. I wish to believe the accot. of the 11th from New York informing of the Adoption by Massachussets on 5th instant—but we wait for the Numbers, the form, the more perfect Certainty. To Morrow I...
52To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 23 February 1814 (Madison Papers)
I think it my duty confidentially to make known to you, that I have drawn a respectful memorial to the S. of the U.S. upon the subject of the difficulties, which I conjectured would arise there, and some which from symptoms I suspect, base and malignant as they are, to have been imposed upon that honorable body. How highly ought I, under all the circumstances with which you are surrounded to...
53To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [ca. 19 September 1814] (Madison Papers)
The Comme. of Defense determined, on Thursday (I think), the 15th., to request a comme: from each ward to be appointed to receive from them a communication, which they could not make publickly. Saturday, at 10. OClock, was appointed to make it: Committees were to be appointed in the short interval by the 120.000 persons (or the freemen among them) in the city and various suburbs. Notices were...
54To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 14 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
I feel very happy in the effect upon many well disposed men, not attached to the administration, which the letter on impressments has produced. I published it with a little introduction calculated to make it bear on the course of conduct respecting the intended Treaty. The sentence at the end of my note has reference to matters in relation to impressments as they might appear in a British...
55To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to send you a copy of an examination into the Subject of the Spoliations of the neutrals, which appears to me likely to be of some use in considering the french decree, even if your letters from our minister should be less satisfactory than his letter to Mr. Lee warrants us to believe. The publisher having given me a few copies I have sent one to the President, one to the Secy...
56To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday the letter you did me the honor to transmit of the 27th. March. Its contents shall be private & confidential. It is for that reason that I send you, in the rough draught, some preliminary and direct views of the subject. I thought it best to lose no time, and therefore devoted all of yesterday, which I could spare from public business, to rehearsals and reflexion, with my...
57To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Carey being prepared to deliver yesterday a number of sets of the Laws of the U.S. they were recd. cased & shipt agreeably to the inclosed bill of Lading on board the Schooner Hyland, Jno. Hand Junr. Master in two cases directed to “ The Secretary of State Washington .” She is expected to sail in three days. This being the first mail after the Books were ready, I avail myself of it to give...
58To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 April 1790 (Madison Papers)
I have the pleasure to enclose you a further consideration of the affairs of R. Island —and two of the papers of which I sent the origls. to Col. H. You will see they will be objects of treaty & consequently must require to be reserved. That which relates to our Navigation is comprized in sixty pages & I have not any person to copy it at this time. In haste yr. respectful & obedt. Servt. RC...
59To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 18 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor by yesterdays mail, before entering upon my Pennsylvania office, to transmit to you a letter of resignation of the office, duties and agency of Supervisor &ca. This step was taken from an apprehension that an incompatibility of that duty & agency might occasion it to be considered impracticable for me to perform them, while I was Clerk of the genl. Quarter Sessions under...
60To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 16 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
I have obtained from the Editor about sixty pages of the debates of our State Convention, wch. I am anxious to get into the hands of Mr. King, for the use of the gentlemen in the Massachussets convention. Uncertain whether he is in New York or Boston I have taken the liberty of enclosing it to you with a request that you will as early as possible have it sent forward to him under a franked...
61To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 13 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
The decided information brought hither thro NewYork, in the letters & papers pr the Thetis brig, Capt. McDonnald, is by this time in your possession in all its details. No doubt your advices by Charleston & other wise have been equally full as to the names of the culpable. I have learned, in a certain way, that Mr. Eaton is expected here in the course of a journey to Washington city, and that...
62To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 11 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you official copies of two Patents of the King of Great Britain for Land in West Florida, this day received from William Lyman Esquire, Consul of the U.S. in London. One of them is to George Tead for 2000 acres on Mobile River, recorded May 4. 1770 in Book E fo. 14 Recorders office West Florida, as certified by Fras. P⟨on⟩;ssett D. Recorder. The other is to Mrs....
63To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 13 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
It is with sincere reluctance, that I trouble you upon the subject of a vacancy which I am told has been created, this day. It is understood that Capt. C. Irvine has been appointed Commissary Genl. I submit myself to your consideration for the office of Supt of military stores, of the duties of which I have had many occasions to think and much opportunity to acquire information. Tho it is not...
64To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The meeting held here this day has gone off tranquilly. A set of resolutions were adopted the contents of which I am unable to state, as I could not hear them. I presume they go upon the general ground of agreeing to support the government in measures against the late british excesses. The meeting was mixt, numerous & respectable. Some circumstances have occurd on this occasion which merit...
65To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor most respectfully to state, that the Attorney General of Pennsylvania has expressed a second Opinion, that there is an incompatibility between the Office I hold under the State & an office under the United States. Wherefore it proves, as I mentioned in my resignation of the 14th. instant, which I had the honor to transmit to you, impracticable for me to perform the remaining...
66To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 16 March 1789 (Madison Papers)
A very long acquaintance with Col. Saml. Hanson, who will have the honor to deliver you this letter, and the respectability and number of testimonials of his merits, which he carries with him to New York have induced me to trespass on your friendship. He goes as a candidate for some public employment for which his talents may be thought equal, and I wish to give him a chance of your support....
67To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 8 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
An affair in which I have no interest, but that of a citizen whose property is landed, has occurred to my observation with so much force, that I have considered it as duty to attempt to attract to it the most respectable notice. It is above thirty years since I submitted to you in our return from the convention at Annapolis, that the garden cultivation of cotton on the Chesapeak bay convinced...
68To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 4 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I had some time ago the honor to apply to you for the favor of Warrants, as Midshipmen in the Navy for my Sons James Sidney Coxe & Henry Sidney Coxe. As I am not acquainted with the course, which it has appeared to you proper, or which it may be found practicable to adopt in those cases, I have taken the liberty, by this mail, to request of my friend Jonathan Roberts Esquire, to enquire, in...
69To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 5 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 November 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to inclose to you a bill of Lading for one box of books containing fifty eight sets of the laws of the U.S. Tho Mr. Carey assures me that the ⟨o⟩thers will be ready for any vessel that shall sail after the 10th. instant, I thought ⟨i⟩t best to forward these, as they might be wanted.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p.; docketed...
70To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 28 September 1789 (Madison Papers)
I received information of the nomination of Mr. O. yesterday. He is certainly a very suitable character, and well entitled to this place from his former employments. I have to make you my Apologies for the trouble I have given you, and my acknowlegements for such good offices as you have rendered, the extent of which I am sure was as great as your Ideas of public good would admit. I am well...
71Memorandum from Tench Coxe, [ca. 2 April] 1802 (Madison Papers)
The extinction of the modern republics. The result of the Consulta at Lyons merits the attention of the American Government. When the Peace of Oct. 1801 was known here, it was observed that there were no provisions in favor of the republican form of government, no Securities for its existence. The first consul of France was its arbitrary Chief, de facto . The English obtained their end, “ of...
72To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 22 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
I am encouraged by your goodness, expressed thro Mr Gallatin, to trouble you with a letter on the same subject as my last, after having obtained from my brother, of the House of Reps., the loan of his file of bills in relation to the revenues, and offices creating at this session. I have read & considered the bill relative to the office I formerly held, and I perceive that it is wisely...
73To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 5 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 September 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to inform you that I have shipt to Governor Claiborne a case containing the remainder of the sets of the laws for the use of his Government. The Number was 39. I have recd. his acknowledgement of the former parcel. There are 113 sets preparing for Washington, being printed and bound. When they go I will forward a Note of the whole, with...
74To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 8 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
Mr Coxe has the honor respectfully to transmit the enclosed to the President, as the best disposition he can make of it, within the views of the writer. Mr. Coxe begs leave to remark, that he does not remember any thing very material, in the case of the gentleman applying, but believes he was employed in the care of the small foreign distillery near to Charleston. Mr. Coxe cannot suppress his...
75To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 25 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to offer to you my most grateful and respectful acknowledgements for the appointments of Midshipmen, conferred upon my two Sons, James & Henry. I have the particular satisfaction to state, that Commodore Rodgers, upon the evidence of Character & preparation in the case of the elder, has been so good as to station him on board the Guerriere frigate: and that Commodore Porter,...
76To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 27 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
In the present critical state of our affairs, I take the liberty to offer to your consideration a suggestion which appears to me of great importance. The injuries to neutral rights have, as I believe, been produced by the conduct and example of great Britain in the form of Orders of her executive government abrogating in their Admiralty and superior prize courts the written or customary law of...
77To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 28 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I received this day three letters of various dates from my brother in Law Mr. Charles Davenport Coxe, of the U. S. marine Corps. It appears that they must have been long on the way. One of them covered the inclosed letter from him to you. I collect from Mr. Coxe’s letter, that he is willing & desirous to remain in the situation as successor to a Mr. Dodge, in which Mr. Lear has placed him, pro...
78To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 21 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
A case of so much importance to the U. S. has occurred here, that I do myself the honor to inclose to you a copy of the opinions of Ch. J. Tilghman and Judge Smith (of the Supe. Co. of Pa.) which was lent to me by Mr. Du Ponceau. He was of course for France, and Mr. C. Hare for the officer. In the course of the discussion, it appeared, that Mr. Bond was offered to prove that British Deserters...
79To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 3 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have conferd with Mr. Carey since I had the honor to receive your letter of the 30th. Ulto. He expects to deliver 150 sets of the laws immediately, and very soon after 100 more. The Amount of the $2000 will therefore be soon delivered. I presume that I shall hear from the Treasurer this day or to morrow so that I can be perfectly punctual as to 250 or 260 of the first copies. I have...
80To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I understand to day that the coming out of Lord Selkirk is certain, and that he is to come in the place of Mr. Erskine. It is also stated to me that the British Government has adopted a rule that no minister shall go from England to any foreign Government, who is unmarried, "particularly to our government" This seems to be considered as merely calculated to keep them disengaged from connexions...