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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 know nothing relative to the teas referred to in the request or vote
of the Town, except that one of my friends has signified to me by
letter, that part of it, he had reason to believe, would be consigned to
me and my brother jointly. Under these circumstances, I can give no
other answer to the Town at present, than that if the teas should
arrive, and we should be appointed factors, we shall then be
sufficiently informed to answer the request of the Town. I am, for my
brother and self, sir,

                              Your h'ble serv^t,
                                               THOS. HUTCHINSON, Jun^r.

  Hon'ble John Hancock, Esq^r.,
    Moderator of a Town Meeting, now assembled.

It was then voted, that the letter, signed Richard Clarke & Son,
Benjamin Faneuil, for self and Joshua Winslow, Esq^r., and also the
letter signed Thomas Hutchinson, which had been read, were daringly
affrontive to the Town, and the meeting was immediately dissolved.

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AN ACCOUNT OF TEA IMPORTED AT BOSTON,

_Referred to above, in Mr. Clarke's Letter, from the same._

Mr. DRAPER:

Please to publish the following account of the importation of teas from
Great Britain, from the commencement of the year 1768, to the present
time, for the information of such of your readers as desire to be
acquainted therewith:

            Chests.
  In 1768,    942   by 82 diff^t persons.
     1769,    340      33  d^o.
     1770,    167      22  d^o.
     1771,    890     103  d^o.
     1772,    375      70  d^o.
     1773,    378      61  d^o.

N.B.--The merchants in London, not having executed the orders for tea
this fall, on account of the expected exportation from the East India
Company, greatly lessens the quantity of the present year.

Q.

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_HALIFAX._

Mr. Michell presents his compliments to Mr. Watson, and by order
acquaints him, that the Court of Directors of the East India Company
have agreed that the Company's teas, which may be rejected at Boston,
and other places in America, should be sent to Halifax, in the manner
with which Mr. Watson was acquainted by the Committee, with whom he this
day conferred, and Mr. Michell is to desire Mr. Watson will, as soon as
may be, name to him the other house here, which is to join in that
business, and the other gentleman at Halifax, to be concerned in the
agency there with Mr. John Butler, that the necessary dispatch may be
given to the advices, to go from hence tomorrow, at 10 in the forenoon,
to the plantation office, and be there forwarded to America. He is also
to request Mr. Watson, will by that time, convey hither such letters as
he intends should go under the Company's cover, by the same dispatch to
Halifax, relating to this business

East India House,

Friday evening, 7^th Jan^y, 1774.

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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 know nothing relative to the teas referred to in the request or vote
of the Town, except that one of my friends has signified to me by
letter, that part of it, he had reason to believe, would be consigned to
me and my brother jointly. Under these circumstances, I can give no
other answer to the Town at present, than that if the teas should
arrive, and we should be appointed factors, we shall then be
sufficiently informed to answer the request of the Town. I am, for my
brother and self, sir,

                              Your h'ble serv^t,
                                               THOS. HUTCHINSON, Jun^r.

  Hon'ble John Hancock, Esq^r.,
    Moderator of a Town Meeting, now assembled.

It was then voted, that the letter, signed Richard Clarke & Son,
Benjamin Faneuil, for self and Joshua Winslow, Esq^r., and also the
letter signed Thomas Hutchinson, which had been read, were daringly
affrontive to the Town, and the meeting was immediately dissolved.

       *       *       *       *       *


AN ACCOUNT OF TEA IMPORTED AT BOSTON,

_Referred to above, in Mr. Clarke's Letter, from the same._

Mr. DRAPER:

Please to publish the following account of the importation of teas from
Great Britain, from the commencement of the year 1768, to the present
time, for the information of such of your readers as desire to be
acquainted therewith:

            Chests.
  In 1768,    942   by 82 diff^t persons.
     1769,    340      33  d^o.
     1770,    167      22  d^o.
     1771,    890     103  d^o.
     1772,    375      70  d^o.
     1773,    378      61  d^o.

N.B.--The merchants in London, not having executed the orders for tea
this fall, on account of the expected exportation from the East India
Company, greatly lessens the quantity of the present year.

Q.

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_HALIFAX._

Mr. Michell presents his compliments to Mr. Watson, and by order
acquaints him, that the Court of Directors of the East India Company
have agreed that the Company's teas, which may be rejected at Boston,
and other places in America, should be sent to Halifax, in the manner
with which Mr. Watson was acquainted by the Committee, with whom he this
day conferred, and Mr. Michell is to desire Mr. Watson will, as soon as
may be, name to him the other house here, which is to join in that
business, and the other gentleman at Halifax, to be concerned in the
agency there with Mr. John Butler, that the necessary dispatch may be
given to the advices, to go from hence tomorrow, at 10 in the forenoon,
to the plantation office, and be there forwarded to America. He is also
to request Mr. Watson, will by that time, convey hither such letters as
he intends should go under the Company's cover, by the same dispatch to
Halifax, relating to this business

East India House,

Friday evening, 7^th Jan^y, 1774.

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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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