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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)

That some of your petitioners have in consequence of this been cruelly
insulted in their persons and property; that they have had insulting and
incendiary letters left and thrown into their houses in the night; that
they have been repeatedly attacked by a large body of men; that one of
the houses of your petitioners was assaulted in the night by a
tumultuous and riotous assembly of people, and violent attempts made to
force the house for the space of two hours, that have greatly damaged
the same; that they are threatened in their persons and property, and
further with the destruction of the said tea on its arrival into the
port; and that the resolves and proceedings of the Town, in their
meetings on the 5^th and 18^th inst., are intended to be expressive of
the general sense of the Town, to which we beg leave to refer your
Excellency and the Honorable Board.

Your petitioners therefore beg leave to resign themselves, and the
property committed to their care, to your Excellency and Honors, as the
guardians and protectors of the people, humbly praying that measures may
be directed to, for the landing and securing the teas, until your
petitioners can be at liberty, openly and safely, to dispose of the
same, or until they can receive directions from their constituents.

  Signed,

                                             RICH^D CLARKE,
                                             BENJ^N FANEUIL, Jun^r.
                                             THO^S & ELISHA HUTCHINSON.

A true copy from the original.

  Petition on file.  Attest:
                     Signed,  THO^S. FLUCKER, Sec^y.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL THEREON,

_At a Council held at the Council Chamber, in Boston, upon Friday, Nov^r
19, 1773._

Present:

His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq^r., Governor.

  Isaac Royal,[49] }           James Bowdoin, }     James Pitts,
  John Erving,     } Esq^rs.   James Russell, } Esq^rs.
  Wm. Brattle,[50] }           James Otis,    }     Sam^l Dexter, Esq^rs.

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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)

That some of your petitioners have in consequence of this been cruelly
insulted in their persons and property; that they have had insulting and
incendiary letters left and thrown into their houses in the night; that
they have been repeatedly attacked by a large body of men; that one of
the houses of your petitioners was assaulted in the night by a
tumultuous and riotous assembly of people, and violent attempts made to
force the house for the space of two hours, that have greatly damaged
the same; that they are threatened in their persons and property, and
further with the destruction of the said tea on its arrival into the
port; and that the resolves and proceedings of the Town, in their
meetings on the 5^th and 18^th inst., are intended to be expressive of
the general sense of the Town, to which we beg leave to refer your
Excellency and the Honorable Board.

Your petitioners therefore beg leave to resign themselves, and the
property committed to their care, to your Excellency and Honors, as the
guardians and protectors of the people, humbly praying that measures may
be directed to, for the landing and securing the teas, until your
petitioners can be at liberty, openly and safely, to dispose of the
same, or until they can receive directions from their constituents.

  Signed,

                                             RICH^D CLARKE,
                                             BENJ^N FANEUIL, Jun^r.
                                             THO^S & ELISHA HUTCHINSON.

A true copy from the original.

  Petition on file.  Attest:
                     Signed,  THO^S. FLUCKER, Sec^y.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL THEREON,

_At a Council held at the Council Chamber, in Boston, upon Friday, Nov^r
19, 1773._

Present:

His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq^r., Governor.

  Isaac Royal,[49] }           James Bowdoin, }     James Pitts,
  John Erving,     } Esq^rs.   James Russell, } Esq^rs.
  Wm. Brattle,[50] }           James Otis,    }     Sam^l Dexter, Esq^rs.

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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