COXE, Tench, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 22, 1755; received a liberal schooling; engaged in mercantile pursuits; resigned from the Pennsylvania Militia in 1776, turned Loyalist, and joined the British Army under Howe in 1777; was arrested, paroled, and joined the patriot cause; commissioner to the Federal Convention at Annapolis in 1786; Member of the Continental Congress in 1789; was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789, and served until the office was abolished on May 8, 1792; was appointed revenue commissioner June 30, 1792, and served until removed by President Adams; was appointed by President Jefferson purveyor of public supplies and served from 1803 to 1812; was a writer on political and economic subjects; died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 17, 1824; interment in Christ Church Burying Ground.
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[ Top ]Cooke, Jacob E. Tench Coxe and the Early Republic. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.
Coxe, Tench. An Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain. Boston: Printed by Oliver and Munroe, 1808.
------. An Exposition of Some Facts Relative to the Personal Conduct and Business of the Office of Tench Coxe, Purvey of Public Supplies. [Philadelphia: n.p., Dec. 10, 1805.
------. A Memoir of February, 1817. [Philadelphia: n.p., 1817].
------. A View of the United States of America, in a Series of Papers Written at Various Times in the Years Between 1787 and 1794. 1794. Reprint, New York: A.M. Kelly, Bookseller, 1965.
Hutcheson, Harold. Tench Coxe: A Study in American Economic Development. 1938. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1982.
