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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Name: Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
Author: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)

I am, gentlemen,
                 Your most obed't & very humble serv't,
                                           FRED'K PIGOU, Jun^r.
    Mark Lane, 1st June, 1773.

    To the Hon'ble the Court of Directors
      of the United East India Company.


LETTER FROM MR. JONATHAN CLARKE.

                                         London, 1st July, 1773.

    Gentlemen:

    I intended to have made a purchase of teas at your present
    sale to have exported to America, but the candid intimation
    given by you of an intention to export them to the Colonies
    on account of the Company, renders it disadvantageous for a
    single house to engage in that article.

    I now beg leave, gentlemen, to make a tender to you of the
    services of a house in which I am a partner, Richard Clarke
    and Sons,[29] of Boston, New England, to conduct the sale of
    such teas as you may send to that part of America, in
    conjunction with any other houses you may think proper to
    entrust with this concern; altho' I have not the honor of
    being personally known to many of you, I flatter myself our
    house is known to the principal merchants who deal to our
    Province, and are known to have always fulfilled our
    engagements with punctuality & honor, and trust I shall
    procure you ample security for our conducting this business,
    agreeable to the direction, we may from time to time receive
    from you.

    In soliciting this favor, I beg leave to avail myself
    further of the circumstance of our having for a long time
    been concerned in the tea trade, and to greater extent than
    any house in our Province, with one exception. Of the
    disappointment I have met with in my intended adventure, by
    which we are deprived of a very valuable branch of our
    business, and on my being on the spot to take such
    instructions from you as may be requisite in disposing of
    what you may send. And give me leave to add my assurances
    that the interest of the East India Company will always be
    attended to by the house of Richard Clarke & Sons, if you
    think fit to repose this confidence in them.

                 I am, very respectfully, gentlemen,
                        Your most obed't & humble servant,
                                               JONATHAN CLARKE.

    To the Hon'ble Directors of the
      East India Company.

Mr. Clarke also enclosed two letters in his favor; one from Messrs.
Henry & Thos. Bromfield, the other from Mr. Peter Contencin, merchants.

                                               June 5th, 1773.

    Sir:

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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)

I am, gentlemen,
                 Your most obed't & very humble serv't,
                                           FRED'K PIGOU, Jun^r.
    Mark Lane, 1st June, 1773.

    To the Hon'ble the Court of Directors
      of the United East India Company.


LETTER FROM MR. JONATHAN CLARKE.

                                         London, 1st July, 1773.

    Gentlemen:

    I intended to have made a purchase of teas at your present
    sale to have exported to America, but the candid intimation
    given by you of an intention to export them to the Colonies
    on account of the Company, renders it disadvantageous for a
    single house to engage in that article.

    I now beg leave, gentlemen, to make a tender to you of the
    services of a house in which I am a partner, Richard Clarke
    and Sons,[29] of Boston, New England, to conduct the sale of
    such teas as you may send to that part of America, in
    conjunction with any other houses you may think proper to
    entrust with this concern; altho' I have not the honor of
    being personally known to many of you, I flatter myself our
    house is known to the principal merchants who deal to our
    Province, and are known to have always fulfilled our
    engagements with punctuality & honor, and trust I shall
    procure you ample security for our conducting this business,
    agreeable to the direction, we may from time to time receive
    from you.

    In soliciting this favor, I beg leave to avail myself
    further of the circumstance of our having for a long time
    been concerned in the tea trade, and to greater extent than
    any house in our Province, with one exception. Of the
    disappointment I have met with in my intended adventure, by
    which we are deprived of a very valuable branch of our
    business, and on my being on the spot to take such
    instructions from you as may be requisite in disposing of
    what you may send. And give me leave to add my assurances
    that the interest of the East India Company will always be
    attended to by the house of Richard Clarke & Sons, if you
    think fit to repose this confidence in them.

                 I am, very respectfully, gentlemen,
                        Your most obed't & humble servant,
                                               JONATHAN CLARKE.

    To the Hon'ble Directors of the
      East India Company.

Mr. Clarke also enclosed two letters in his favor; one from Messrs.
Henry & Thos. Bromfield, the other from Mr. Peter Contencin, merchants.

                                               June 5th, 1773.

    Sir:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

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