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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)

The bearer, Mr. Barkly, is the person whom I took the
    liberty of recommending to you as a person able and
    qualified to give you information touching the quantity of
    tea that is now consumed in America, and to serve the
    Company in that part of the World in case the Directors
    shall judge it proper to make any establishment there for
    selling tea on the Company's account, & I am, sir,

            Your most obedient and most humble servant,
                                              GREY COOPER.[30]

    Received from Henry Crabb Boulton, Esq.


    Hon'ble Sirs:

    Being informed of your resolution to export a quantity of
    tea to different parts of America, we take the liberty of
    recommending our friends, Messrs. Willing, Morris & Co., to
    be your agents at Philadelphia, for whom we are ready to be
    answerable.

                   We are, very respectfully,

           Your honors most obedient, humble servants,
                                     ROBERTS, BAYNES & ROBERTS.

    8 June, 1773.

    To the Hon'ble the Committee of Warehouses.


                                        London, 9th June, 1773.

    Gentlemen:

    I have understood that you propose fixing agents in the
    different colonies in America, to dispose of certain
    quantities of tea; if so, I am a native and merchant of
    Virginia, and think it will be in my power to execute your
    commands in that quarter, on terms equal, if not superior,
    to any one in it.

    There are some things respecting this business that come
    within my knowledge; which are too prolix for a letter, but
    if the Court chuses to notice my petition, I shall be happy
    and ready to give any intelligence in my power.

          I am, gentlemen,
                  Your very obed't & hum'ble serv't,
                                        BENJ. HARRISON, Jun^r.
                             At Webbs, Arundel Street, Strand.

    To the Hon'ble Court, &c.


    Gentlemen:

    Being informed that you have it in contemplation to export
    tea to the different Provinces in North America, for sale on
    the Company's account, I beg leave to recommend my brother,
    Mr. Jonathan Browne, merchant, in Philadelphia, as an agent
    for any business you may have to transact at that place, and
    I flatter myself his activity & knowledge of the trade of
    that country, acquired by a residence of upwards of fifteen
    years, will render him deserving of your notice.

    Any security for his conduct I am ready to give, and to any
    amount you shall think necessary for the discharge of the
    trust you may be pleased to repose in him.

            I am, very respectfully, gent.,
                       Your most obed't & humble serv't,
                                                GEORGE BROWNE.

    London, Tower Hill, 11th June, 1773.

    To the Committee of Warehouses.


    Gentlemen:

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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)

The bearer, Mr. Barkly, is the person whom I took the
    liberty of recommending to you as a person able and
    qualified to give you information touching the quantity of
    tea that is now consumed in America, and to serve the
    Company in that part of the World in case the Directors
    shall judge it proper to make any establishment there for
    selling tea on the Company's account, & I am, sir,

            Your most obedient and most humble servant,
                                              GREY COOPER.[30]

    Received from Henry Crabb Boulton, Esq.


    Hon'ble Sirs:

    Being informed of your resolution to export a quantity of
    tea to different parts of America, we take the liberty of
    recommending our friends, Messrs. Willing, Morris & Co., to
    be your agents at Philadelphia, for whom we are ready to be
    answerable.

                   We are, very respectfully,

           Your honors most obedient, humble servants,
                                     ROBERTS, BAYNES & ROBERTS.

    8 June, 1773.

    To the Hon'ble the Committee of Warehouses.


                                        London, 9th June, 1773.

    Gentlemen:

    I have understood that you propose fixing agents in the
    different colonies in America, to dispose of certain
    quantities of tea; if so, I am a native and merchant of
    Virginia, and think it will be in my power to execute your
    commands in that quarter, on terms equal, if not superior,
    to any one in it.

    There are some things respecting this business that come
    within my knowledge; which are too prolix for a letter, but
    if the Court chuses to notice my petition, I shall be happy
    and ready to give any intelligence in my power.

          I am, gentlemen,
                  Your very obed't & hum'ble serv't,
                                        BENJ. HARRISON, Jun^r.
                             At Webbs, Arundel Street, Strand.

    To the Hon'ble Court, &c.


    Gentlemen:

    Being informed that you have it in contemplation to export
    tea to the different Provinces in North America, for sale on
    the Company's account, I beg leave to recommend my brother,
    Mr. Jonathan Browne, merchant, in Philadelphia, as an agent
    for any business you may have to transact at that place, and
    I flatter myself his activity & knowledge of the trade of
    that country, acquired by a residence of upwards of fifteen
    years, will render him deserving of your notice.

    Any security for his conduct I am ready to give, and to any
    amount you shall think necessary for the discharge of the
    trust you may be pleased to repose in him.

            I am, very respectfully, gent.,
                       Your most obed't & humble serv't,
                                                GEORGE BROWNE.

    London, Tower Hill, 11th June, 1773.

    To the Committee of Warehouses.


    Gentlemen:

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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)

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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