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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)

[Illustration: Signature, Samuel Phillips Savage per list]

(_See page_ LVII.)

Mr. Pownall[55] presents his compliments to Mr. Wheler, and sends him,
by Lord Dartmouth's directions, extract of a letter received yesterday
from the Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina. If the India Company
have received any advices, Lord Dartmouth will be obliged to him for a
communication thereof.

Whitehall, 29^th Jan., 1774.

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GOV. BULL,[56]

_Dated Charles Town, 24 Dec^r., 1773, to the Earl of Dartmouth._

On the 2^d inst., Cap^t. Curling arrived here with 257 chests of tea,
sent by the East India Company, with the same instructions to agents
appointed here as at Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The spirit which
had been raised in those towns with great threats of violence to hinder
the landing and disposing of the tea there, was communicated to this
Province by letters, gazettes, and merchants. Several meetings of the
inhabitants of Charles Town were held, to consider of measures to effect
the like prohibitions here, but tho' the warmth of some were great, many
were cool, and some differed in the reasonableness and utility thereof.
The gentlemen who were appointed agents for the East India Com^y were
prevailed upon by threats and flattery to decline the trust, and in
imitation of the northern towns, declarations were made that it should
not be landed.

The tea was all this time kept on board the ship, the captain being
apprehensive of some violence on his attempting to land it, and there
being no persons empowered to take charge of it. When the period of 20
days after his arrival approached, at which time the collector of his
Majesty's customs, by his instructions, is required to seize goods
liable to pay duty, to secure the payment thereof, tho' the merchants of
the town had generally disagreed to this measure of prohibiting the
landing the tea, yet some warm, bold spirit, took the dangerous measure
of sending anonymous letters to Cap^t. Curling and some of his friends,
and the gentleman who owned the wharf where the ship lay, requiring
Curling to carry his ship from the wharf to the middle of the river,
threatening great damages on failure.

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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)

[Illustration: Signature, Samuel Phillips Savage per list]

(_See page_ LVII.)

Mr. Pownall[55] presents his compliments to Mr. Wheler, and sends him,
by Lord Dartmouth's directions, extract of a letter received yesterday
from the Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina. If the India Company
have received any advices, Lord Dartmouth will be obliged to him for a
communication thereof.

Whitehall, 29^th Jan., 1774.

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GOV. BULL,[56]

_Dated Charles Town, 24 Dec^r., 1773, to the Earl of Dartmouth._

On the 2^d inst., Cap^t. Curling arrived here with 257 chests of tea,
sent by the East India Company, with the same instructions to agents
appointed here as at Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The spirit which
had been raised in those towns with great threats of violence to hinder
the landing and disposing of the tea there, was communicated to this
Province by letters, gazettes, and merchants. Several meetings of the
inhabitants of Charles Town were held, to consider of measures to effect
the like prohibitions here, but tho' the warmth of some were great, many
were cool, and some differed in the reasonableness and utility thereof.
The gentlemen who were appointed agents for the East India Com^y were
prevailed upon by threats and flattery to decline the trust, and in
imitation of the northern towns, declarations were made that it should
not be landed.

The tea was all this time kept on board the ship, the captain being
apprehensive of some violence on his attempting to land it, and there
being no persons empowered to take charge of it. When the period of 20
days after his arrival approached, at which time the collector of his
Majesty's customs, by his instructions, is required to seize goods
liable to pay duty, to secure the payment thereof, tho' the merchants of
the town had generally disagreed to this measure of prohibiting the
landing the tea, yet some warm, bold spirit, took the dangerous measure
of sending anonymous letters to Cap^t. Curling and some of his friends,
and the gentleman who owned the wharf where the ship lay, requiring
Curling to carry his ship from the wharf to the middle of the river,
threatening great damages on failure.

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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