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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)

"The Governor had summoned a council the day after the riot.
    The sheriff attended, and upon enquiring, it appeared that
    one Mackintosh, a shoemaker, was among the most active in
    destroying the Lieutenant-Governor's house and furniture. A
    warrant was given to the sheriff to apprehend him by name,
    with divers others. Mackintosh appeared in King Street, and
    the sheriff took him, but soon discharged him, and returned
    to the council chamber, where he gave an account of his
    taking him, and that Mr. Nathaniel Coffin, and several other
    gentlemen, came to him and told him that it had been agreed
    that the cadets, and many other persons, should appear in
    arms the next evening, as a guard and security against a
    fresh riot, which was feared, and said to have been
    threatened, but not a man would appear unless Mackintosh was
    discharged. The Lieutenant-Governor asked, 'And did you
    discharge him?' 'Yes.' 'Then you have not done your duty.'
    And this was all the notice taken of the discharge. The true
    reason of thus distinguishing Mackintosh was that he could
    discover who employed him, whereas the other persons
    apprehended were such as had collected together without
    knowing of any previous plan."

Mackintosh was styled the "First Captain-General of Liberty Tree," and
had charge of the illuminations, hanging of effigies, etc. Long
afterward, in speaking of the tea party, he said, "It was my chickens
that did the job." My informant, Mr. Schuler Merrill, then a boy of ten,
remarks that it was a mystery to him, at that time, "how chickens could
have anything to do with a tea party!" Mackintosh is described by
Merrill as "of slight build, sandy complexion, and nervous temperament."
He died in extreme poverty, at North Haverhill, N.H., about the year
1812, at the age of seventy. His unmarked grave can be pointed out by
Mr. Merrill, who still resides in North Haverhill, at the age of
eighty-two.


COLONEL JOHN MAY,

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History

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)

"The Governor had summoned a council the day after the riot.
    The sheriff attended, and upon enquiring, it appeared that
    one Mackintosh, a shoemaker, was among the most active in
    destroying the Lieutenant-Governor's house and furniture. A
    warrant was given to the sheriff to apprehend him by name,
    with divers others. Mackintosh appeared in King Street, and
    the sheriff took him, but soon discharged him, and returned
    to the council chamber, where he gave an account of his
    taking him, and that Mr. Nathaniel Coffin, and several other
    gentlemen, came to him and told him that it had been agreed
    that the cadets, and many other persons, should appear in
    arms the next evening, as a guard and security against a
    fresh riot, which was feared, and said to have been
    threatened, but not a man would appear unless Mackintosh was
    discharged. The Lieutenant-Governor asked, 'And did you
    discharge him?' 'Yes.' 'Then you have not done your duty.'
    And this was all the notice taken of the discharge. The true
    reason of thus distinguishing Mackintosh was that he could
    discover who employed him, whereas the other persons
    apprehended were such as had collected together without
    knowing of any previous plan."

Mackintosh was styled the "First Captain-General of Liberty Tree," and
had charge of the illuminations, hanging of effigies, etc. Long
afterward, in speaking of the tea party, he said, "It was my chickens
that did the job." My informant, Mr. Schuler Merrill, then a boy of ten,
remarks that it was a mystery to him, at that time, "how chickens could
have anything to do with a tea party!" Mackintosh is described by
Merrill as "of slight build, sandy complexion, and nervous temperament."
He died in extreme poverty, at North Haverhill, N.H., about the year
1812, at the age of seventy. His unmarked grave can be pointed out by
Mr. Merrill, who still resides in North Haverhill, at the age of
eighty-two.


COLONEL JOHN MAY,

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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