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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 state and condition of the Hon'ble Company's tea in America is as
you will find in the enclosed papers. Unless the Tea Act is repealed,
no tea can be sold in America. Repeal the Act, and you may dispose of
all your teas. The Americans will not be slaves, neither are they to be
trapped under the notion of cheap teas. Death is more desirable to them
than slavery,--it is impossible to make the Americans swallow the tea.
The ministry may amuse the Company, by telling them their tea shall be
sold, and the Act preserved, but they are grossly mistaken. None of it
is yet landed, neither shall it be.

                          Your humble servant,
                                                ANGLO AMERICANUS.

  Boston, New England,
    Dec^r 13^th, 1773.

The papers enclosed contain an account of the proceedings of the town of
Boston, on the 29^th & 30^th November, and of the resolves of some of
the neighboring towns. (The papers are in the miscellany bundle.)

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LETTER ADDRESSED TO GEO. DUDLEY, ESQ^R.,

_Enclosing a Boston news paper of the 16^th Dec^r., 1773._

                               Boston, New England, 17^th Dec^r., 1773.

Gentlemen:

Your tea is destroyed, which was brought in three ships, Cap^ts. Bruce,
Hall and Coffin, and the brig with tea is cast away. If the tea is got
on shore, it will share the same fate. Every possible means has been
used to send it home safe again to you, but the tea consignees would
not send it; then application was made to the commissioners of the
customs to clear out the vessel,--they would not do it, then to the
Governor to grant a pass, which he refused, and finally the people were
obliged to destroy it, (_se defendendo_,) or else, by an unlawful
unrighteous Act, imposing a duty this tea would have destroyed them.
This whole province, of some hundred thousand people, and the other
provinces on the continent, are determined neither to use it, or suffer
it to be landed, nor pay the duty. Force can never make them, and if the
Company can ever expect to sell any tea in America, they must use all
their interest to get this Tea Act repealed, otherwise they will never
sell one ounce.

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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)

The state and condition of the Hon'ble Company's tea in America is as
you will find in the enclosed papers. Unless the Tea Act is repealed,
no tea can be sold in America. Repeal the Act, and you may dispose of
all your teas. The Americans will not be slaves, neither are they to be
trapped under the notion of cheap teas. Death is more desirable to them
than slavery,--it is impossible to make the Americans swallow the tea.
The ministry may amuse the Company, by telling them their tea shall be
sold, and the Act preserved, but they are grossly mistaken. None of it
is yet landed, neither shall it be.

                          Your humble servant,
                                                ANGLO AMERICANUS.

  Boston, New England,
    Dec^r 13^th, 1773.

The papers enclosed contain an account of the proceedings of the town of
Boston, on the 29^th & 30^th November, and of the resolves of some of
the neighboring towns. (The papers are in the miscellany bundle.)

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LETTER ADDRESSED TO GEO. DUDLEY, ESQ^R.,

_Enclosing a Boston news paper of the 16^th Dec^r., 1773._

                               Boston, New England, 17^th Dec^r., 1773.

Gentlemen:

Your tea is destroyed, which was brought in three ships, Cap^ts. Bruce,
Hall and Coffin, and the brig with tea is cast away. If the tea is got
on shore, it will share the same fate. Every possible means has been
used to send it home safe again to you, but the tea consignees would
not send it; then application was made to the commissioners of the
customs to clear out the vessel,--they would not do it, then to the
Governor to grant a pass, which he refused, and finally the people were
obliged to destroy it, (_se defendendo_,) or else, by an unlawful
unrighteous Act, imposing a duty this tea would have destroyed them.
This whole province, of some hundred thousand people, and the other
provinces on the continent, are determined neither to use it, or suffer
it to be landed, nor pay the duty. Force can never make them, and if the
Company can ever expect to sell any tea in America, they must use all
their interest to get this Tea Act repealed, otherwise they will never
sell one ounce.

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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