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)
Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)
Letter signed "Anglo Americanus," addressed to Geo. Dudley, Esq.,
advising the Tea's being destroyed, 332
Note from Mr. Pownall, to communicate Advices, and enclosing Letter
from Lieut.-Gov. Bull, of Charles Town; also, Lieut.-Gov. Bull's
Letter, 339
Letter from Mr. Jo. Morris, to Corbyn Morris, Esq., advising of the
Tea's being seized at South Carolina, 342
Letter from Capt. Ellis, advising of the Tea's being seized at South
Carolina, 343
Questions proposed to the Boston Consignees, respecting landing the
Teas, 344
Protest of Capt. Bruce against said Consignees, for refusing to
receive the Teas, 346
Letter from Mr. Rotch, to said Consignees, with an account of Charges
and a Protest, 350
Protests of the several Captains against the Destroyers of the Tea,
353
Letters from the Agents at New York, &c., to Capt. Lockyer, and one
from him to them, 359
Proceedings of the Inhabitants of Philadelphia, on the measure of
Exporting Tea to that place, 361
Liberty Tree, 24
Long Room (Whig) Club, 66
New York. Opposition to the Tea Act, 16-19, 269-271
Arrival of Tea, 84-5
Petition of the Consignees to the Governor, 305
Letter from the Agents to Capt. Lockyer, 358-60
North-End Caucus, 23, 67
Philadelphia lends Opposition to Tea Act, 17
Tea sent back, 84
Proposed Tea Depot in America, 203
Opposition to the Tea Act, 272-277
Resolves and Proceedings of October 18, 361-65
St. Andrew's Masonic Lodge of Boston, 66
Sons of Liberty, 18, 24, 26
South Carolina, Proceedings at 84-65, 339-43
Spurr, John, 164
Tea Act, 12
Introduced into New England, 14
Consignees, 23, 36, 51-53
Guard on Boston tea-ship, 45-50
State of Tea Trade in America, 191-98
Shipments to America, 256-7
Warren, Gen. Joseph, 178
Additions, 367
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Tea Leaves, on cover,
Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor, Frontispiece.
Diagram Showing the Route from the Old South Church to Griffin's
Wharf, 75
Melvill's Tea Relic, 131
Edward Proctor's Proclamation, 148
Lord North Forcing the Tea down the Throat of America, 155
Location of Tea Wharf, 173
Plan of Boston, 1775, and the Burning of Charlestown, 264
PORTRAITS.
Adams, Samuel 299
Bradlee, Nathaniel 97
Franklin, Benjamin 185
Gage, Gov. Thomas 313
Hancock, John 288
Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas 308
Hewes, George Robert Twelves 117
Kennison, David 122
Lovering, Thomas 182
Melvill, Thomas 133
Melvill, Thomas, Hat on 180
North, Lord 249
Pitts, Lendall 142
Purkitt, Henry 151
Revere, Paul 157
Rotch, Francis 40
Rowe, John 62
Savage, Samuel Phillips 338
Sprague, Samuel 164
Warren, Joseph 48
AUTOGRAPHS.
Adams, Samuel 299
Bradlee, Nathaniel 97
Bradlee, David 97
Bass, Henry 96
Church, Benjamin 26
Cheever, Ezekiel 46
Chase, Thomas 102
Clarke, Benjamin 103
Crane, John 108
Franklin, Benjamin 185
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