From John Adams to Tench Coxe, 13 September 1791

To Tench Coxe

Braintree Septr. 13. 1791

Dear Sir

I received yesterday your Letter of the 3d and pray you to accept of many Thanks for your obliging Attention to my Affairs. Although the Rent is very high, I am perfectly Satisfied that nothing better could have [bee]n done. The House I hope will be deemed Democratical enough, although the Rent is quite princely: rather too much for a Simple Duke.

Mrs Adams joins with me in presenting our best Thanks for your kind Care and her kind Compliments to Mrs and Miss Coxe.1

I Shall leave it to the same friends who have taken so good Care of me hitherto to determine how I shall dispose of my Horses, whether at Livery stables or in others if others can be hired for me.

I am my dear sir your obliged / Friend and humble servant

John Adams

RC (PHi:Coxe Family Papers); addressed: “Tench Coxe Esqr: / Philadelphia”; internal address: “The Honourable Tench Coxe Esq”; endorsed: “John Adams / Braintree Sepr. 13: / 1791.” Some loss of text due to placement of the seal.

1. That is, Coxe’s wife, Rebecca Coxe Coxe (1764–1806), and their eldest daughter, Ann Rebecca (1783–1849) (Cooke, Tench Coxe description begins Jacob E. Cooke, Tench Coxe and the Early Republic, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1978. description ends , p. 54, 236, 451; Philadelphia Inquirer, 31 March 1849).

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Title: From John Adams to Tench Coxe, 13 September 1791
Author: Adams, John
Recipient: Coxe, Tench
Date: 13 September 1791

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Cite as: “From John Adams to Tench Coxe, 13 September 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0039. [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, p. 60.]

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