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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 deputy chairman of the East India Com^y desires you would point out
to the Com^tee of Warehouses what sorts of tea and quantity of each are,
in your opinion, proper to be sent to Boston & South Carolina, to make
up to the former of those places, an export equal to 300 large chests of
Bohea tea, and the latter a quantity equal to 200 large chests Bohea.

Mr. Holbrook says if you can be with him this morning, you will expedite
his business very much, as the Com^tee have directed him to make ready
for shipping immediately.

                            I am, sir,
                                      Your most hum. serv^t
                                                          WM. SETTLE.

    East India House, 6^th Aug^t 1773.
  Mr. Wm. Settle.


MR. PALMER'S ASSORTMENT OF TEAS FOR AMERICA.

                                  So.      New
                      Boston.  Carolina.  York.  Philadelphia.  Total.

  Bohea,   l. ch^ts.     268       182      568        568        1586
  Congo, sm^l   d^o.       20        10       20         20          70
  Singlo,       d^o.      80        50       80         80         290
  Hyson,        d^o.      20        10       20         20          70
  Souchong,     d^o.      10         5       10         10          35


WEIGHT OF TEA EXPORTED TO AMERICA.

                                   lbs.
  Bohea,                         562,421
  Singlo,                         22,546
  Hyson,                           5,285
  Souchong,                        2,392
  Congou,                          6,015
                                  ------
                   Total lbs.,   598,659


The Hayley, James Scott, is now ready to sail, & I mean to dispatch her
15^th Aug^t. The Dartmouth, James Hall,[38] will be here about 14 days
longer. These two are constant traders to Boston.

I have no connection with the Carolina trade, but I understand the
London, Curling, belonging to Greenwood & Higginson, is now ready for
sailing, and is a constant trader. Mr. Settle will please to inform the
Com^tee of the above & thereby oblige,

                                 His humble servant,
                                               GEORGE HAYLEY.

East India H^o 10 Aug^t 1773.

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TO GREY COOPER, Esq^r., or JN^O. ROBINSON, Esq^r.

Sir:

By order of the Court of Directors of the United East India Comp^y, I
transmit you the enclosed petition, with their request that you will be
pleased to lay the same before the Right Hon'ble the Lords Commissioners
of the Treasury.

               I am, very respectfully, sir,
                           Your most obed^t & hum. ser^t
                                               PETER MITCHELL, Sec^y.

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TO THE RIGHT HON'BLE THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY.

_The humble Petition of the United Company of Merchants of England
trading to the East Indies._

_Sheweth:_

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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