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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)

We are now ready to deliver the tea, and beg to know if you, gentlemen,
are ready to receive it, and will produce the requisites usual and
necessary to the landing or delivering the said tea alongside the ship,
either in your own persons or by your agents?


ANSWER.

Gentlemen: We understand that there was a large body of people assembled
in Boston on the 29^th & 30^th November, who voted that the tea shipped
by the East India Company, and consigned to us, should not be landed;
that the duty should not be paid, and that the tea should be returned in
the same ship that brought it out. It also appears by the printed
proceedings of that assembly, that you consented it should go back in
your ship. We also understand that there is continually on board your
ship a number of armed men, to prevent it being landed. We therefore
judge it out of our power to receive it at present, but when it shall
appear to us to be practicable, we will give the necessary orders
respecting it.


QUESTION 2^D.

As your reply to our first question, gent^n., appears to us not to the
point, we must and do demand a categorical answer whether you will or
will not immediately, either by yourselves or your order, or otherwise,
qualify any other person or persons to receive the teas consigned to you
now on board our ship, as we are now entirely ready, and will, if in our
power, deliver the said teas immediately, if application is made?


ANSWER.

Gentlemen: It appears to us that the answer we have made to your first
question is a full reply to the second.


QUESTION 3^D.

As you, gentlemen, by the tenor of your first and second reply, refuse
to give us a direct answer to our questions, whether you will or will
not receive the teas mentioned therein, we now demand our bill of lading
given by Cap^t. Hall, in consequence of his receiving those teas on
board in London River, and the amount of the freight of the said tea,
say ninety-one pounds seven shillings and seven pence lawful money?


ANSWER.

Gentlemen: We shall not deliver up Captain Hall's bill of lading, nor
pay the freight of the teas until we can receive them.

  [Copy.]   FRANCIS ROTCH.
            JAMES HALL.
            THO^S. & ELISHA HUTCHINSON.
            RICHARD CLARKE & SONS.
            BENJ^N FANEUIL, JUN^R.


[Copy.] AT CASTLE WILLIAM, IN NEW ENGLAND,

                                            11^th Dec^r., 1773.


QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY JAMES BRUCE,

_Master of the ship Eleanor, burthen about 250 tons, now lying in the
harbour of Boston, in New England, with part of her cargo, from London,
consisting of one hundred and fourteen chests of tea, consigned to
Messrs. Richard Clarke & Sons, Tho^s. & Elisha Hutchinson, Benj^n
Faneuil and Joshua Winslow, of said Boston, Merchants._


QUESTION 1^ST, BY CAP^N BRUCE, TO THE CONSIGNEES AFORESAID, IN BEHALF OF
HIMSELF AND OWNERS.

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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)

We are now ready to deliver the tea, and beg to know if you, gentlemen,
are ready to receive it, and will produce the requisites usual and
necessary to the landing or delivering the said tea alongside the ship,
either in your own persons or by your agents?


ANSWER.

Gentlemen: We understand that there was a large body of people assembled
in Boston on the 29^th & 30^th November, who voted that the tea shipped
by the East India Company, and consigned to us, should not be landed;
that the duty should not be paid, and that the tea should be returned in
the same ship that brought it out. It also appears by the printed
proceedings of that assembly, that you consented it should go back in
your ship. We also understand that there is continually on board your
ship a number of armed men, to prevent it being landed. We therefore
judge it out of our power to receive it at present, but when it shall
appear to us to be practicable, we will give the necessary orders
respecting it.


QUESTION 2^D.

As your reply to our first question, gent^n., appears to us not to the
point, we must and do demand a categorical answer whether you will or
will not immediately, either by yourselves or your order, or otherwise,
qualify any other person or persons to receive the teas consigned to you
now on board our ship, as we are now entirely ready, and will, if in our
power, deliver the said teas immediately, if application is made?


ANSWER.

Gentlemen: It appears to us that the answer we have made to your first
question is a full reply to the second.


QUESTION 3^D.

As you, gentlemen, by the tenor of your first and second reply, refuse
to give us a direct answer to our questions, whether you will or will
not receive the teas mentioned therein, we now demand our bill of lading
given by Cap^t. Hall, in consequence of his receiving those teas on
board in London River, and the amount of the freight of the said tea,
say ninety-one pounds seven shillings and seven pence lawful money?


ANSWER.

Gentlemen: We shall not deliver up Captain Hall's bill of lading, nor
pay the freight of the teas until we can receive them.

  [Copy.]   FRANCIS ROTCH.
            JAMES HALL.
            THO^S. & ELISHA HUTCHINSON.
            RICHARD CLARKE & SONS.
            BENJ^N FANEUIL, JUN^R.


[Copy.] AT CASTLE WILLIAM, IN NEW ENGLAND,

                                            11^th Dec^r., 1773.


QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY JAMES BRUCE,

_Master of the ship Eleanor, burthen about 250 tons, now lying in the
harbour of Boston, in New England, with part of her cargo, from London,
consisting of one hundred and fourteen chests of tea, consigned to
Messrs. Richard Clarke & Sons, Tho^s. & Elisha Hutchinson, Benj^n
Faneuil and Joshua Winslow, of said Boston, Merchants._


QUESTION 1^ST, BY CAP^N BRUCE, TO THE CONSIGNEES AFORESAID, IN BEHALF OF
HIMSELF AND OWNERS.

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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