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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)

At Boston, in New England, on the 11^th day of Decem^r., in the year of
Our Lord 1773, and in the 14^th year of his Majesty's reign, personally
appeared before me, John Monro, Notary Public by royal authority, duly
admitted and sworn, James Bruce, master of the ship Eleanor, burthen
about 250 tons, and he being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty
God, deposed and doth depose and say, that on the 1^st day of this
instant Decem^r., he arrived with the said ship at Boston aforesaid,
then loaded with sundry goods or merchandize from London, amongst which
were 84 whole and 34 half chests of tea, consigned to Messrs. Richard
Clarke & Sons, Tho^s. and Elisha Hutchinson, Benjamin Faneuil and Joshua
Winslow of Boston, merchants, that on the 2^d inst., the deponent was
ordered to attend at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of the next day, on a
committee of the people of the said town, and he having attended
accordingly, was then and there commanded by Mr. Samuel Adams and
Jonathan Williams, Esq^r., in presence of, and assembled with, John
Rowe, John Hancock, Wm. Phillips and John Pitts, Esq^rs., and a great
number of others, in Faneuil Hall, not to land any of the said tea at
his peril, but to proceed to Griffin's wharf, in said Boston, and there
discharge the rest of his cargo. And that the said deponent was obliged
to comply with the said orders, and was and is nightly watched by 25
armed men on board the said ship, appointed, as he supposes and verily
believes, to prevent the said teas from being landed.

Wherefore, the said James Bruce, on behalf of himself and all others
concerned in the said ship or cargo, did, and I, the said notary public,
at his request, and on behalf as aforesaid, do by these presents
solemnly protest against the said committee and each of them above
mentioned, and against all others voluntarily acting, watching, and
proceeding by their directions, and all persons whatsoever opposing and
forbidding the landing the tea aforesaid for all, and all manner of
damage and damages suffered and to be suffered, by means of the
commands, watchings, opposition and prohibition aforesaid. Thus done,
protested, and given under my notarial seal, in the presence of Rob^t.
Garland Cranch and John Dyar.

  In testimoniam veritas,
                            Jn^o. Monro,
                                         Not. Pub., 11 Jan., 1774.

  JAMES BRUCE. [Symbol: L.S.]

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PROTEST OF Cap^t. JAMES BRUCE,[59]

_Of the Eleanor, against the Destroyers of the Tea._

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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)

At Boston, in New England, on the 11^th day of Decem^r., in the year of
Our Lord 1773, and in the 14^th year of his Majesty's reign, personally
appeared before me, John Monro, Notary Public by royal authority, duly
admitted and sworn, James Bruce, master of the ship Eleanor, burthen
about 250 tons, and he being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty
God, deposed and doth depose and say, that on the 1^st day of this
instant Decem^r., he arrived with the said ship at Boston aforesaid,
then loaded with sundry goods or merchandize from London, amongst which
were 84 whole and 34 half chests of tea, consigned to Messrs. Richard
Clarke & Sons, Tho^s. and Elisha Hutchinson, Benjamin Faneuil and Joshua
Winslow of Boston, merchants, that on the 2^d inst., the deponent was
ordered to attend at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of the next day, on a
committee of the people of the said town, and he having attended
accordingly, was then and there commanded by Mr. Samuel Adams and
Jonathan Williams, Esq^r., in presence of, and assembled with, John
Rowe, John Hancock, Wm. Phillips and John Pitts, Esq^rs., and a great
number of others, in Faneuil Hall, not to land any of the said tea at
his peril, but to proceed to Griffin's wharf, in said Boston, and there
discharge the rest of his cargo. And that the said deponent was obliged
to comply with the said orders, and was and is nightly watched by 25
armed men on board the said ship, appointed, as he supposes and verily
believes, to prevent the said teas from being landed.

Wherefore, the said James Bruce, on behalf of himself and all others
concerned in the said ship or cargo, did, and I, the said notary public,
at his request, and on behalf as aforesaid, do by these presents
solemnly protest against the said committee and each of them above
mentioned, and against all others voluntarily acting, watching, and
proceeding by their directions, and all persons whatsoever opposing and
forbidding the landing the tea aforesaid for all, and all manner of
damage and damages suffered and to be suffered, by means of the
commands, watchings, opposition and prohibition aforesaid. Thus done,
protested, and given under my notarial seal, in the presence of Rob^t.
Garland Cranch and John Dyar.

  In testimoniam veritas,
                            Jn^o. Monro,
                                         Not. Pub., 11 Jan., 1774.

  JAMES BRUCE. [Symbol: L.S.]

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PROTEST OF Cap^t. JAMES BRUCE,[59]

_Of the Eleanor, against the Destroyers of the Tea._

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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