Coxe family. Papers, 1638-1897 (inclusive), 1776-1879 (bulk).
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Papers, 1638-1897 (inclusive), 1776-1879 (bulk).
Series I. of the Tench Coxe section, volumes and printed material includes: Letterbooks, 1778-1819, deal chiefly with mercantile and real estate business matters, Collection of Revenue letterbook, 1801-1802; letterbook, 1813-1816, concerning Coxe's difficulties in completing his accounts as Purveyor of Public Supplies. Account books, 1772-1824 relate to Coxe's personal and official business finances and include daybooks, journals, ledgers, checkbooks, bank books, receipt books, land records, revenue records, and others. Additionally, there are Coxe's commercial records consisting of Coxe, Furman and Coxe letterbook, 1776-1779, and account books, 1776-1796; Coxe and Frazier letterbooks, 1784-1798, journals, 1783-1798, and other account books. In this series also are: miscellaneous Coxe family volumes, 1810-1871, consisting of docket books and other legal records, estate records, and household accounts of Coxe's children Alexander, Charles, Henry, and Mary Rebecca; Dr. Thomas Rushton and Mary Fisher Ruston account books, domestic account books, medical notes, 1762-1803; George Harrison's Office of Naval Agent letterbook, 1801-1806, journal, 1802, and personal journal, 1845, and ledger, 1842-1844; some account and letterbooks of other Coxe debtors, William Harrison, 1793-1799, and James McCalley, 1792-1797; Office of the Collector of Revenue letterbooks, 1791 (George Clymer), 1798-1800 (James Ash); and a final group of records, ca. 1759-1849, partly derived from business firms with which Coxe had dealings, partly from private individuals connected with him or his family, but much for which the provenance is undetermined. Printed materials consist of: books; newspaper clippings, 1787-1885; pamphlets and booklets, 1767-1885, including pamphlets authored by Tench Coxe; circulars and form letters, 1783-1822; broadsides and broadsheets, 1782-1837; and miscellaneous. Tench Coxe's incoming correspondence forms the bulk of the second series with a much lesser amount of outgoing correspondence, and a sizeable body of third party correspondence, all arranged together chronologically. Letters on all of the commercial, official, and personal subjects which concerned him are represented, usually in quantity: national economic policy, Coxe's writings and publications, land speculations and development, domestic and foreign commerce, the operations of his state and federal offices, politics and government, church, Philadelphia civic organizations, family matters. In addition to his business associates and family members, among his correspondents were James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Rush, John Dickinson, Joel Barlow, Pierce Butler, Aaron Burr, Albert Gallatin, John Jay, Robert Morris, Timothy Pickering, and Gouverneur Morris. Interfiled with the correspondence are general papers: deeds, surveys and other land papers; ships' papers, insurance policies, invoices and other commercial pieces; tax records, licenses, and sundry revenue forms; notes and memoranda; financial accounts and calculations; calling cards and other personal memorabilia. After his father's death, Charles S. Coxe, attorney, judge, and executor of the family estate, became the principal recipient of correspondence in the Coxe Family Papers. This remaining part of the series, 1824-1879, concerns management of the estate, family affairs, and personal business. The bulk of series III Essays, Addresses, and Resource Material is made up of drafts and occassional fair copies of Tench Coxe's books (published and unpublished), pamphlets, and pieces for newspapers and periodicals. There is supplemental material such as manuscripts of other authors and excerpts of books. The series consists of writings on economic subjects, political topics, and miscellaneous and fragmentary material. Tench Coxe's bills and receipts, the last series, filed in alphabetical order, relate to his personal expenses, to his business accounts, to his official duties, particularly his purchases as Purveyor of Public Supplies, and to the accounts of persons for whom he acted as agent or trustee. Also included in this series are Tench Coxe's cancelled checks, 1783-1843. The Charles Sidney Coxe, Edmund Sidney Coxe, Alexander Sidney Coxe Legal Papers Section, ca. 1810-1879 section includes: correspondence, financial papers, legal documents and memoranda of the attorney sons of Tench Coxe are primarily concerned with their law practices. Most correspondence and other papers of the three brothers which do not pertain directly to legal matters have been included in the Tench Coxe Section, Series II; however, some personal and family items do remain here. The papers of Charles Coxe, who served as Deputy Attorney General of PA, and Judge of District Court for Philadelphia, 1826-1841, are the most numerous, with lesser amounts for Edmund and Alexander. The Third Party Papers, ca. 1722-1815 is filled with loose records supplementary to the volumes which appear in Section I. Dr. Thomas Ruston's papers, ca. 1722, 1785-1794, 1812 were seized by Coxe in an attempt to salvage something of the debt due to him after the Chester County, PA, doctor and land speculator went bankrupt. They relate to his business interests, especially land, to his writings, and to a small extent his medical education. There is correspondence, deeds, and other land papers, bills, receipts and other accounts, legal papers, etc. Other of Coxe's debtors are represented by William Harrison's correspondence, accounts, land paper, legal material, ca. 1790-1800; James McCalley accounts and other business papers, ca. 1785-1815; and Oliver Pollock miscellaneous papers, 1785-1790.
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