Adams Papers

From Tench Coxe to John Adams, [ca. 2 September 1791]

From Tench Coxe

[ca. 2 September 1791]1

Sir

I have the honor to inform you that I have been engaged thro this week in attempts to provide for you an house fit for the reception of your family but have not yet succeeded. Genl. Knox is also paying attention to the matter & we shall certainly accommodate you, if in our power. He is of opinion that it will not be proper to refuse £300 per Annum for Mrs. Keppele’s2 house at the corner of Arch & fourth streets, should it be obtainable at that price. To morrow she is to inform me— Mr Hamilton gives £250 for a single house of about 26 or 27 feet front in Market street opposite the presidents— Mr. delaforest after a fruitless trial of a week has bought a new house for £1560—3

I merely write, Sir, to inform you of the present train of things, and assuring you of my unremitted Attention to your instructions, I have the honor to be with the highest respect, / sir, your most obedt. / & most hum. Servant

Tench Coxe

RC (Adams Papers). Filmed at [Oct.–Nov. 1793].

1. The dating of this letter is based on Coxe’s 3 Sept. letter to JA, below.

2. That is, Catharine Keppele (or Keppley) (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 9:296).

3. Alexander Hamilton resided at 164 High Street, while George and Martha Washington then lived at 190 High Street, commonly known as Market Street. Antoine René Charles Mathurin, Comte de Laforêt (1756–1846), who served as the French vice consul to the United States from 1785 to 1793, resided at 113 Spruce Street (Hamilton, Papers description begins The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Harold C. Syrett, Jacob E. Cooke, and others, New York, 1961–1987; 27 vols. description ends , 8:511; Philadelphia Directory, 1791, p. 124, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols., rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 23205; Washington, Papers, Presidential Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, Mark A. Mastromarino, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, David R. Hoth, Jennifer Stertzer and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987– . description ends , 6:399–400; AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 8:296, 9:xvi; Philadelphia Directory, 1793, p. 34, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols., rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 25585).

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    From Tench Coxe to John Adams, [ca. 2 September 1791]
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    Coxe, Tench
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    Adams, John
    Date
    2 September 1791

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    “From Tench Coxe to John Adams, [ca. 2 September 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0035. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, pp. 56–57.]

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