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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)

Joshua Mauger, Esq^r., Member of Poole, in L10,000.
  Brook Watson,    }
  Rob^t Rashleigh, } of London, merchants, and in L10,000.

Joint security for the due execution of the commission for the disposal
of the Company's teas by John Butler, Esq^r., and Tho^s Cochran, of
Halifax.

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_NEW YORK._


THE AGENTS OF NEW YORK, THEIR PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR,

_Referred to in their Letter of the 1^st Dec^r._

TO HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM TRYON, ESQ^R., CAPTAIN-GENERAL AND GOVERNOR IN
CHIEF IN AND OVER THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, AND TERRITORIES DEPENDING
THEREON, IN AMERICA, CHANCELLOR AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME.

_The Memorial of Henry White, Abra^m Lott, & Benj^m Booth, of the City
of New York, merchants._

Humbly sheweth:

That your memorialists have, by the last packet, received advices of
their being appointed agents by the East India Com^y. for the sale of
certain teas by them shipped and daily expected to arrive in this port.

That your memorialists are informed by letter from the Directors of the
said Company, that they have given security in double the value of the
tea, that a certificate of its being duly landed shall be returned to
the custom house, in London.

That as the said tea, on its importation, will be subject to the
American duty, and as there is on that account a general and spirited
opposition to its being sold, and being well convinced from the nature
of the opposition, that so considerable a property of the Company will
not be safe unless Government takes it under protection, your
memorialists therefore humbly pray that your Excellency will be pleased
to direct such steps to be taken for the preservation of the said tea,
as your Excellency in your wisdom shall think most conducive to that
end.

                                                  HENRY WHITE.[47]
                                                  ABR^M LOTT.
                                                  BENJ^M BOOTH.

  New York, 1st Dec^r., 1773.

[Illustration: Hutchinson]

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_BOSTON._


Proceedings of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, on the 18^th
Nov^r., 1773, referred to by the agents in their letter of the 2^d
Dec^r., are missing, supposed to be transmitted to Lord Dartmouth.[48]

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PETITION OF THE AGENTS, & PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF BOSTON THEREON,

_Referred to by the Agents in their Letter of the 2^d Decem^r._

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND THE HON'BLE HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL.

_The Petition of Rich^d Clarke & Sons, of Benj^n Faneuil, & Tho^s. &
Elisha Hutchinson._

That the Hon'ble East India Company, in London, have shipped a
considerable quantity of tea for the port of Boston, and as your
petitioners are _made_ to understand, will be consigned to their address
for sale.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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History

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)

Joshua Mauger, Esq^r., Member of Poole, in L10,000.
  Brook Watson,    }
  Rob^t Rashleigh, } of London, merchants, and in L10,000.

Joint security for the due execution of the commission for the disposal
of the Company's teas by John Butler, Esq^r., and Tho^s Cochran, of
Halifax.

       *       *       *       *       *


_NEW YORK._


THE AGENTS OF NEW YORK, THEIR PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR,

_Referred to in their Letter of the 1^st Dec^r._

TO HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM TRYON, ESQ^R., CAPTAIN-GENERAL AND GOVERNOR IN
CHIEF IN AND OVER THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, AND TERRITORIES DEPENDING
THEREON, IN AMERICA, CHANCELLOR AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME.

_The Memorial of Henry White, Abra^m Lott, & Benj^m Booth, of the City
of New York, merchants._

Humbly sheweth:

That your memorialists have, by the last packet, received advices of
their being appointed agents by the East India Com^y. for the sale of
certain teas by them shipped and daily expected to arrive in this port.

That your memorialists are informed by letter from the Directors of the
said Company, that they have given security in double the value of the
tea, that a certificate of its being duly landed shall be returned to
the custom house, in London.

That as the said tea, on its importation, will be subject to the
American duty, and as there is on that account a general and spirited
opposition to its being sold, and being well convinced from the nature
of the opposition, that so considerable a property of the Company will
not be safe unless Government takes it under protection, your
memorialists therefore humbly pray that your Excellency will be pleased
to direct such steps to be taken for the preservation of the said tea,
as your Excellency in your wisdom shall think most conducive to that
end.

                                                  HENRY WHITE.[47]
                                                  ABR^M LOTT.
                                                  BENJ^M BOOTH.

  New York, 1st Dec^r., 1773.

[Illustration: Hutchinson]

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_BOSTON._


Proceedings of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, on the 18^th
Nov^r., 1773, referred to by the agents in their letter of the 2^d
Dec^r., are missing, supposed to be transmitted to Lord Dartmouth.[48]

       *       *       *       *       *


PETITION OF THE AGENTS, & PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF BOSTON THEREON,

_Referred to by the Agents in their Letter of the 2^d Decem^r._

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND THE HON'BLE HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL.

_The Petition of Rich^d Clarke & Sons, of Benj^n Faneuil, & Tho^s. &
Elisha Hutchinson._

That the Hon'ble East India Company, in London, have shipped a
considerable quantity of tea for the port of Boston, and as your
petitioners are _made_ to understand, will be consigned to their address
for sale.

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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