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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)

East India House, 4^th Aug^t 1773.

  TO JONATHAN CLARKE, }
     WM. PALMER,      } Esq^rs. Boston.
     BROOKE WATSON,   }

     JOHN BLACKBURN,      }
     WM. KELLY,           } Esq^rs. New York.
     FRED'K PIGOU, Jun^r. }

     GEO. BROWNE,    }
     GILBERT BARKLY, }
     FRED'K PIGOU,   } Esq^rs. Philadelphia.
     SAM'L WHARTON,  }

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Sir:

At foot you have the firm of our correspondents at Boston, which we gave
into the Com^tee of Warehouses for partaking of the India Com^y's Tea
consignments, and for whom we are ready to give security.

  Benj^m Faneuil, Jun^r,               }  Esq^rs of Boston,
  Joshua Winslow, late of Nova Scotia, }               jointly.

  Security--Brook Watson, Rob^t Rashleigh,
  Watson & Rashleigh.

  London, 4^th Aug^t 1773.
  Mr. Wm. Settle.

Security offered for Mr. Gilbert Barkly,--Wm. Ross, Esq^r.--No. 24
Austin Fryars.

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Securities offered for Walter Mansell,--Henry Laurens, Fludyer Street,
Carolina Merchants; William Barrett, Old Palace Yard.

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Sir:

The firm of the house I have recommended to the Court of Directors for
New York, is Pigou & Booth, and at Philadelphia, Messrs. James &
Drinker, as agents for the disposal of teas. I am, sir,

                                    Your most hum. ser^t
                                                   FRED'K PIGOU, Jun^r

  Mark Lane, 4 Aug^t
  Mr. Wm. Settle.

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Sir:

I was favored with your letter of yesterday, _last_ night _after_ ten
o'clock, acquainting me that the Court of Directors of the E.I.C. had
agreed to ship for Philadelphia six hundred chests of tea, and consign
to my correspondents an equal proportion thereof, you will be pleased to
inform the Directors that I gave notice to my brothers, Thomas & Isaac
Wharton, (the persons whom I recommended,) by the last night's New York
mail, of the resolution of the Court of Directors to ship the above
quantity of teas to Philadelphia. I am, sir,

                            Your most hum. serv't,
                                                  SAM'L WHARTON.

Argyle Street, Aug^t 5, 1773.

Mr. Wm. Settle.

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Mr. Browne's compliments to Mr. Settle, and begs leave to inform him
that the address of the house at Philadelphia, whom he recommends for an
agent for the sale of tea, is Jonathan Browne, merchant, at
Philadelphia.

Aug^st 5, 1773.

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Sir:

Last evening I had the pleasure to receive yours of yesterday,
mentioning the resolution of the Court of Directors of the Hon'ble East
India Company relative to the exportation of tea to New York, and
desiring me to acquaint you with the firm of my correspondent there,
which is Abraham Lott & Co. I am, sir,

                                              Yours, &c.,

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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)

East India House, 4^th Aug^t 1773.

  TO JONATHAN CLARKE, }
     WM. PALMER,      } Esq^rs. Boston.
     BROOKE WATSON,   }

     JOHN BLACKBURN,      }
     WM. KELLY,           } Esq^rs. New York.
     FRED'K PIGOU, Jun^r. }

     GEO. BROWNE,    }
     GILBERT BARKLY, }
     FRED'K PIGOU,   } Esq^rs. Philadelphia.
     SAM'L WHARTON,  }

       *       *       *       *       *

Sir:

At foot you have the firm of our correspondents at Boston, which we gave
into the Com^tee of Warehouses for partaking of the India Com^y's Tea
consignments, and for whom we are ready to give security.

  Benj^m Faneuil, Jun^r,               }  Esq^rs of Boston,
  Joshua Winslow, late of Nova Scotia, }               jointly.

  Security--Brook Watson, Rob^t Rashleigh,
  Watson & Rashleigh.

  London, 4^th Aug^t 1773.
  Mr. Wm. Settle.

Security offered for Mr. Gilbert Barkly,--Wm. Ross, Esq^r.--No. 24
Austin Fryars.

       *       *       *       *       *

Securities offered for Walter Mansell,--Henry Laurens, Fludyer Street,
Carolina Merchants; William Barrett, Old Palace Yard.

       *       *       *       *       *

Sir:

The firm of the house I have recommended to the Court of Directors for
New York, is Pigou & Booth, and at Philadelphia, Messrs. James &
Drinker, as agents for the disposal of teas. I am, sir,

                                    Your most hum. ser^t
                                                   FRED'K PIGOU, Jun^r

  Mark Lane, 4 Aug^t
  Mr. Wm. Settle.

       *       *       *       *       *

Sir:

I was favored with your letter of yesterday, _last_ night _after_ ten
o'clock, acquainting me that the Court of Directors of the E.I.C. had
agreed to ship for Philadelphia six hundred chests of tea, and consign
to my correspondents an equal proportion thereof, you will be pleased to
inform the Directors that I gave notice to my brothers, Thomas & Isaac
Wharton, (the persons whom I recommended,) by the last night's New York
mail, of the resolution of the Court of Directors to ship the above
quantity of teas to Philadelphia. I am, sir,

                            Your most hum. serv't,
                                                  SAM'L WHARTON.

Argyle Street, Aug^t 5, 1773.

Mr. Wm. Settle.

       *       *       *       *       *

Mr. Browne's compliments to Mr. Settle, and begs leave to inform him
that the address of the house at Philadelphia, whom he recommends for an
agent for the sale of tea, is Jonathan Browne, merchant, at
Philadelphia.

Aug^st 5, 1773.

       *       *       *       *       *

Sir:

Last evening I had the pleasure to receive yours of yesterday,
mentioning the resolution of the Court of Directors of the Hon'ble East
India Company relative to the exportation of tea to New York, and
desiring me to acquaint you with the firm of my correspondent there,
which is Abraham Lott & Co. I am, sir,

                                              Yours, &c.,

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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