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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)

As many difficulties seem at present to attend the
    exportation of tea to America in large quantities, on
    account of the Company, if the expedient is approved by this
    Court, of sending about 200 chests of Bohea tea, and a small
    assortment of other species to Boston, by way of experiment,
    and you should think proper to entrust such cargo to the
    care of Messrs. Hutchinson, merchants, there, I am ready, as
    a security, to advance upon the same the sum such tea shall
    amount to, at the prime cost in China & freight from hence,
    before the shipping thereof, provided I am permitted to
    charge interest upon such advance, until remittances for the
    same are received from America.

                         I am, gent.,
                                   Your humble serv't,
                                                    WM. PALMER.

    Devonshire Square, 24th June, 1773.

    To the Hon'ble Court of Directors, &c., &c.


    Sir:

    The Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company desire
    you will meet them at this house, on Thursday next, at
    twelve o'clock at noon, relative to the exportation of tea
    to America.

                             I am, sir,
                                    Your most humble serv't,
                                                   WM. SETTLE.

    East India House, 25th June, 1773.

  To BROOK WATSON,
  JONATHAN CLARKE,
  FREDE'K PIGOU, Junr.
  GILBERT BARKLY,
  GEORGE BROWNE,
  ROBERTS, BAYNES & ROBERTS,
  WM. KELLY,
  GREENWOOD & HIGGINSON,
  BENJAMIN HARRISON,
  SAMUEL WHARTON,
  GEO. HAYLEY & JOHN BLACKBURN, ESQRS.

    Gentlemen:

    The enclosed newspapers contain the sentiments of the
    Americans with regard to the quantity of teas consumed in
    that country, and the fatal consequences attending buying it
    from foreigners, by leading them to purchase other articles
    of East India goods at the same markets which otherwise
    would not be an object, and which, of course, would be
    commissioned from the mother-country.

    The memorial, which I had the honor to deliver, lately
    points out an undoubted method for gaining this trade.

    The Company being the exporters, pays the American duty of
    3d. pr lb., of which they will be amply repaid by the
    advance on their sales, and as mankind in general are bound
    by interest, and as the duty of about a shill'g pr lb. is
    now taken off tea when exported, the Company can afford
    their teas cheaper than the Americans can smuggle them from
    foreigners, which puts the success of the design beyond a
    doubt.

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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)

As many difficulties seem at present to attend the
    exportation of tea to America in large quantities, on
    account of the Company, if the expedient is approved by this
    Court, of sending about 200 chests of Bohea tea, and a small
    assortment of other species to Boston, by way of experiment,
    and you should think proper to entrust such cargo to the
    care of Messrs. Hutchinson, merchants, there, I am ready, as
    a security, to advance upon the same the sum such tea shall
    amount to, at the prime cost in China & freight from hence,
    before the shipping thereof, provided I am permitted to
    charge interest upon such advance, until remittances for the
    same are received from America.

                         I am, gent.,
                                   Your humble serv't,
                                                    WM. PALMER.

    Devonshire Square, 24th June, 1773.

    To the Hon'ble Court of Directors, &c., &c.


    Sir:

    The Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company desire
    you will meet them at this house, on Thursday next, at
    twelve o'clock at noon, relative to the exportation of tea
    to America.

                             I am, sir,
                                    Your most humble serv't,
                                                   WM. SETTLE.

    East India House, 25th June, 1773.

  To BROOK WATSON,
  JONATHAN CLARKE,
  FREDE'K PIGOU, Junr.
  GILBERT BARKLY,
  GEORGE BROWNE,
  ROBERTS, BAYNES & ROBERTS,
  WM. KELLY,
  GREENWOOD & HIGGINSON,
  BENJAMIN HARRISON,
  SAMUEL WHARTON,
  GEO. HAYLEY & JOHN BLACKBURN, ESQRS.

    Gentlemen:

    The enclosed newspapers contain the sentiments of the
    Americans with regard to the quantity of teas consumed in
    that country, and the fatal consequences attending buying it
    from foreigners, by leading them to purchase other articles
    of East India goods at the same markets which otherwise
    would not be an object, and which, of course, would be
    commissioned from the mother-country.

    The memorial, which I had the honor to deliver, lately
    points out an undoubted method for gaining this trade.

    The Company being the exporters, pays the American duty of
    3d. pr lb., of which they will be amply repaid by the
    advance on their sales, and as mankind in general are bound
    by interest, and as the duty of about a shill'g pr lb. is
    now taken off tea when exported, the Company can afford
    their teas cheaper than the Americans can smuggle them from
    foreigners, which puts the success of the design beyond a
    doubt.

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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