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)
Faneuil, Benjamin, Jr., 294
Frothingham, Nathaniel 111
Green, Nathaniel 114
Grant, Moses 113
Gore, Samuel 113
Hodgdon, Alexander 79
Hancock, John 288
Hutchinson, Thomas 308
Inches, Henderson 27
Kennison, David 122
Lovering, Joseph 182
Lincoln, Amos 125
Lee, Joseph 124
Molineux, William 137
Melvill, Thomas 135
Newell, Eliphelet 138
Purkitt, Henry 150
Prentice, Henry 146
Pitts, Lendall 145
Peck, Samuel 140
Palmer, Joseph P. 139
Proctor, Edward 149
Russell, John 159
Revere, Paul 154
Rowe, John 63
Rotch, Francis 41
Swan, James 168
Sprague, Samuel 164
Sloper, Samuel 162
Shed, Joseph 161
Sessions, Robert 160
Savage, Samuel Phillips 57
Urann, Thomas 169
Winslow, Joshua 223
Williams, Jonathan 43
Warren, Joseph 30
Wyeth, Joseph 171
[Illustration: _Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on
BUNKERS-HILL in the Peninsula of CHARLESTOWN_, the 17^th of June 1776.]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Dr. Holmes, the annalist, says, that tea began to be used in New
England in 1720. Small quantities, must, however, have been made many
years before, as small copper tea-kettles were in use in Plymouth, in
1702. The first cast-iron tea-kettles were made in Plympton, (now
Carver,) Mass., between 1760 and 1765. When ladies went to visiting
parties, each one carried her tea-cup, saucer, and spoon. The cups were
of the best china, very small, containing about as much as a common
wine-glass.
[2] Hist. of Mass., iii. 422.
[3] This body, which originally consisted of sixty-one members, with Dr.
Thomas Young for its president, was organized by Dr. Joseph Warren, who,
with one other person, drew up its regulations. Its usual place of
meeting was at William Campbell's house, near the North Battery, though
its sessions were sometimes held at the Green Dragon tavern. Here the
committees of public service were formed, and measures of defence, and
resolves for the destruction of the tea, discussed. It was here, when
the best mode of expelling the regulars from Boston was under
consideration, that John Hancock exclaimed, "Burn Boston, and make John
Hancock a beggar, if the public good requires it."
[4] Thomas Crafts was, in 1789, a painter and japanner, opposite the
site of the great tree (corner of Boylston and Washington Streets). He
became a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew in 1762.
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