Coxe family papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Contributors: West, Lucy Fisher.; Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824 -- Archives; Manuscripts, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; United States -- Commerce -- History -- Sources; United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865 -- Sources
Other titles: Tench Coxe papers
Description: Correspondence (personal, family, and professional), drafts of essays and incomplete mss. of Coxe's books, memoranda, notes, personal financial records, legal documents, land surveys and other land papers, ships' papers, merchants' accounts, government office records, and miscellaneous material, chiefly from 1775 to 1824.  Includes records from Coxe's official duties as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Commissioner of Revenue, Secretary of the Land Office of Pennsylvania, and U.S. Purveyor of Public Supplies; and correspondence relating to politics from the Annapolis Convention through the election of John Q. Adams, federal economic policy, growth and encouragement of American manufactures, cotton production, internal improvements, agriculture, and the slave trade, and to three generations of Coxe family matters.
Notes: Accompanied by a printed guide, prepared by Lucy Fisher West, entitled: Guide to the microfilm of the papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe family papers at the Historical Society of Pennsyvlania.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division.