Tench Coxe (1755–1824)
Bushrod and Washington and Coxe corresponded during the latter's retirement.
Tench Coxe was born in Philadelphia on 22 May 1755, the second of thirteen children. A partner in his father’s mercantile enterprise, he survived accusations of Toryism during the Revolutionary War to win election to the Continental Congress in 1788. Having achieved prominence as an essayist in support of the Constitution, he joined the Federalist Party and served as assistant secretary of the treasury (1789–92) and commissioner of the revenue (1792–97).
Jacob E. Cooke, "Tench Coxe: Tory Merchant," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 96, Number 1 (January 1972), 48-88.
______, "Tench Coxe, Alexander Hamilton, and the Encouragement of American Manufactures," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 32, Number 3 (July 1975), 369-92.
______, "The Collaboration of Tench Coxe and Thomas Jefferson," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 100, Number 4 (October 1976), 468-90.
______, Tench Coxe and the Early Republic (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1978).
Coxe Family Papers, 1638–1970, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
"Tench Coxe (1755–1824)," Speculation Lands Collection, Special Collections, Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina Asheville.
"Coxe, Tench (1755–1824)," in Holly C. Shulman, ed., The Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
Tench Coxe at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Tench Coxe at Find a Grave.
Tench Coxe at FamilySearch.