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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)

Cap^t. Curling arrived here the 2^d inst., with 257 chests of tea. There
were many meetings of the merchants and planters, but by the result they
came to no determination; the gentlemen that the tea was consigned to
refuse receiving it. The tea staid on board 20 days. We then gave the
captain a permit to land it by sunrise. In the morning I went on board,
and called the captain out of his bed, begged he would begin to get the
tea out of his vessel. I expected that he would not have been permitted
to land it, but we immediately got six chests into the warehouse, and
the sailors hard at work hoisting out the rest. We began about 7
o'clock, and had by 12 about half the tea in the warehouse, and the rest
before the door. There was not the least disturbance; the gentlemen that
came on the wharf behaved with their usual complaisance and good nature
to me, and I believe the same to the rest of the officers that were
there. I thought it my duty to exert myself on this occasion, which I
did with great pleasure, (as I was serving my old masters,) as well as
doing my duty as a revenue officer.

                                        I am, &c., &c.,
                                                      JOHN MORRIS.[57]

  Corbyn Morris, Esq^r.,
    Custom House.


LETTER FROM CAP^T. ELLIS,

_Of the New York Establishment, to the Chairman._

                                       Cox & Mair's Office, 4^th Feb^y.

Sir:

By the English papers I learn you are fully apprised of the proceedings
of the people of Philadelphia and Boston, and the resolves of the New
Yorkers. I have, notwithstanding, sent you the latest papers. The ship
with the teas bound to Charles Town, is made the property of the
customs, having neglected the usual forms of office in that port. This
intelligence I had by a ship from Carolina to New York, the 1st Jan^y.,
and may be depended on. I left New York the 2^d ultimo; the ship bound
to that port was not then arrived.

                    I have the honor to be, sir,
                                 Your very humble servant,
                                                   J.J. ELLIS,
                                                           18^th Regt.


_BOSTON._

                                      CASTLE WILLIAM, 7^th Dec^r., 1773.

QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY FRANCIS ROTCH, AN OWNER, AND JAMES HALL, MASTER OF
THE SHIP DARTMOUTH,

_Who has now the Tea on board, consigned to Messrs. Richard Clarke &
Sons, Mr. Benj^n Faneuil, Messrs. Tho^s. & Elisha Hutchinson, and Mr.
Joshua Winslow, with the Answers of the Consignees, except Mr. Winslow,
who was absent. Referred to by the Consignees in their Letter of the
7^th Jan., 1774._


QUESTION 1^ST.

By Cap^t. Hall and F. Rotch, to the gentlemen, consignees, in writing:

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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)

Cap^t. Curling arrived here the 2^d inst., with 257 chests of tea. There
were many meetings of the merchants and planters, but by the result they
came to no determination; the gentlemen that the tea was consigned to
refuse receiving it. The tea staid on board 20 days. We then gave the
captain a permit to land it by sunrise. In the morning I went on board,
and called the captain out of his bed, begged he would begin to get the
tea out of his vessel. I expected that he would not have been permitted
to land it, but we immediately got six chests into the warehouse, and
the sailors hard at work hoisting out the rest. We began about 7
o'clock, and had by 12 about half the tea in the warehouse, and the rest
before the door. There was not the least disturbance; the gentlemen that
came on the wharf behaved with their usual complaisance and good nature
to me, and I believe the same to the rest of the officers that were
there. I thought it my duty to exert myself on this occasion, which I
did with great pleasure, (as I was serving my old masters,) as well as
doing my duty as a revenue officer.

                                        I am, &c., &c.,
                                                      JOHN MORRIS.[57]

  Corbyn Morris, Esq^r.,
    Custom House.


LETTER FROM CAP^T. ELLIS,

_Of the New York Establishment, to the Chairman._

                                       Cox & Mair's Office, 4^th Feb^y.

Sir:

By the English papers I learn you are fully apprised of the proceedings
of the people of Philadelphia and Boston, and the resolves of the New
Yorkers. I have, notwithstanding, sent you the latest papers. The ship
with the teas bound to Charles Town, is made the property of the
customs, having neglected the usual forms of office in that port. This
intelligence I had by a ship from Carolina to New York, the 1st Jan^y.,
and may be depended on. I left New York the 2^d ultimo; the ship bound
to that port was not then arrived.

                    I have the honor to be, sir,
                                 Your very humble servant,
                                                   J.J. ELLIS,
                                                           18^th Regt.


_BOSTON._

                                      CASTLE WILLIAM, 7^th Dec^r., 1773.

QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY FRANCIS ROTCH, AN OWNER, AND JAMES HALL, MASTER OF
THE SHIP DARTMOUTH,

_Who has now the Tea on board, consigned to Messrs. Richard Clarke &
Sons, Mr. Benj^n Faneuil, Messrs. Tho^s. & Elisha Hutchinson, and Mr.
Joshua Winslow, with the Answers of the Consignees, except Mr. Winslow,
who was absent. Referred to by the Consignees in their Letter of the
7^th Jan., 1774._


QUESTION 1^ST.

By Cap^t. Hall and F. Rotch, to the gentlemen, consignees, in writing:

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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