Papers of John Adams, volume 21
r.13. 1791
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
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.
That is, Coxe’s wife, Rebecca Coxe Coxe (1764–1806),
and their eldest daughter, Ann Rebecca (1783–1849) (Cooke, Tench Coxe
, p. 54, 236, 451; Philadelphia Inquirer, 31 March 1849).