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Jun 13, 2021
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American Revolution Patriot & Founder Father Tench Coxe Signature / Autograph

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American Revolution Patriot & Founder Father Tench Coxe Signature / Autograph
Antique 18th Century Revolutionary Patriot Tench Coxe hand signed valediction / complimentary close with signature presumably at the end of a letter or other message | Boldly signed in ink: "I AM, SIR,/YOUR OBED SERVANT./TENCH COXE/APIST(?) SECY." | Approx. Dimensions: 2.25" H x 3.75" W paper | Coxe was an American Revolutionary War Patriot / Soldier, a Continental Congress Delegate, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Alexander Hamilton, an important political economist, and an avid supporter of militias and the right to bear arms | Tench Coxe (1755-1824) was an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788-1789. He wrote, supporting the adoption of the Constitution, under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian," and was known to his political enemies, because of his penchant for changing parties, as "Mr. Facing Bothways." Coxe was a supporter of the militia & the right to bear arms. Coxe was a militia private during the revolution. Of the militia, Coxe wrote: "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." During a long political career Coxe touched all the bases. He was, in turn, a Whig, Federalist, Democratic-Republican. A proponent of industrialization during the early years of the United States, Coxe co-authored the famous "Report on Manufactures" with Alexander Hamilton. He had been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Hamilton when he was Secretary Of The Treasury. Coxe also headed a group called the Manufacturing Society of Philadelphia. He was appointed revenue commissioner by President Washington. Coxe then turned Democratic-Republican for this he was reviled by the federalists as a renegade, a tory, and a British guide, and President Jefferson rewarded him by an appointment as purveyor of public supplies. Coxe was a writer on political and economic subjects and a champion of tariffs to protect the new nation's growing industries. He wrote also on naval power, on encouragement of arts and manufactures, on the cost, trade, and manufacture of cotton, on the navigation act, and on arts and manufactures in the United States. He deserves, indeed, to be called the father of the American cotton industry. He was the first to attempt to bring an Arkwright machine to the United States & the first to urge Southerners to raise cotton.

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