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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)

"Just before the dissolution of the meeting," says the
    'Gazette,' a number of brave and resolute men, dressed in
    the Indian manner, approached near the door of the assembly,
    and gave a war-whoop, which rang through the house, and was
    answered by some in the galleries, but silence was
    commanded, and a peaceable deportment enjoined until the
    dissolution. The Indians, as they were then called, repaired
    to the wharf, where the ships lay that had the tea on board,
    and were followed by hundreds of people, to see the event of
    the transactions of those who made so grotesque an
    appearance. The Indians immediately repaired on board
    Captain Hall's ship, where they hoisted out the chests of
    tea, and when on deck stove them and emptied the tea
    overboard. Having cleared this ship, they proceeded to
    Captain Bruce's, and then to Captain Coffin's brig. They
    applied themselves so dexterously to the destruction of this
    commodity, that in the space of three hours they broke up
    three hundred and forty-two chests, which was the whole
    number in these vessels, and discharged their contents into
    the dock. When the tide rose it floated the broken chests
    and the tea insomuch that the surface of the water was
    filled therewith a considerable way from the south part of
    the town to Dorchester Neck, and lodged on the shores. There
    was the greatest care taken to prevent the tea from being
    purloined by the populace; one or two being detected in
    endeavoring to pocket a small quantity were stripped of
    their acquisitions and very roughly handled. It is worthy of
    remark that although a considerable quantity of goods were
    still remaining on board the vessel, no injury was
    sustained. Such attention to private property was observed,
    that a small padlock belonging to the captain of one of the
    ships being broke, another was procured and sent to him. The
    town was very quiet during the whole evening and the night
    following. Those who were from the country went home with a
    merry heart, and the next day joy appeared in almost every
    countenance, some on account of the destruction of the tea,
    others on account of the quietness with which it was
    effected. One of the Monday's papers says the masters and
    owners are well pleased that their ships are thus cleared."

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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)

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