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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)

their pens ready to sign the warrant for the transportation to England
and trial of Adams, Molineux and others, for high treason, but were
prevented by the doubts of the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals as to the
sufficiency of the evidence to convict them. Molineux resided at the
corner of Beacon and Mount Vernon Streets, near John Hancock, where in
1760 he built a mansion-house that was considered as "quite splendid"
for those days.

[Illustration: Signature, W Molineux]


THOMAS MOORE,

Son of Hugh Moore, wharfinger, on Fish Street, informs his father's
"good customers," in the _Gazette_ of November 24, 1773, that he
"carries on the business as usual, and solicits their custom." Ben.
Russell speaks of seeing Moore and his (Russell's) father blacking each
other's faces on the 16th of December, 1773. He died in August, 1813;
aged sixty.


ANTHONY MORSE.

"Anthony Morse, my father, afterwards a lieutenant during the
Revolutionary war, and Mr. Joseph Roby, now (1819) of Hanover, N.H.,
were active in the destruction of the tea, December 16, 1773."

--Niles' Acts and Principles of the Revolution, p. 326.


JOSEPH MOUNTFORD,

A cooper, on Prince Street, died in Pepperill, Mass., May 11, 1838; aged
eighty-eight.


E[LIPHELET] N[EWELL],

Of Charlestown, repeatedly informed Dr. Joseph Bartlett, author of a
historical sketch of that town, that he was one of the Indians who
destroyed the tea in Boston harbor. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge
of St. Andrew, in 1778.

[Illustration: Signature, Eliphelet Newell]


JOSEPH PEARSE PALMER

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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)

their pens ready to sign the warrant for the transportation to England
and trial of Adams, Molineux and others, for high treason, but were
prevented by the doubts of the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals as to the
sufficiency of the evidence to convict them. Molineux resided at the
corner of Beacon and Mount Vernon Streets, near John Hancock, where in
1760 he built a mansion-house that was considered as "quite splendid"
for those days.

[Illustration: Signature, W Molineux]


THOMAS MOORE,

Son of Hugh Moore, wharfinger, on Fish Street, informs his father's
"good customers," in the _Gazette_ of November 24, 1773, that he
"carries on the business as usual, and solicits their custom." Ben.
Russell speaks of seeing Moore and his (Russell's) father blacking each
other's faces on the 16th of December, 1773. He died in August, 1813;
aged sixty.


ANTHONY MORSE.

"Anthony Morse, my father, afterwards a lieutenant during the
Revolutionary war, and Mr. Joseph Roby, now (1819) of Hanover, N.H.,
were active in the destruction of the tea, December 16, 1773."

--Niles' Acts and Principles of the Revolution, p. 326.


JOSEPH MOUNTFORD,

A cooper, on Prince Street, died in Pepperill, Mass., May 11, 1838; aged
eighty-eight.


E[LIPHELET] N[EWELL],

Of Charlestown, repeatedly informed Dr. Joseph Bartlett, author of a
historical sketch of that town, that he was one of the Indians who
destroyed the tea in Boston harbor. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge
of St. Andrew, in 1778.

[Illustration: Signature, Eliphelet Newell]


JOSEPH PEARSE PALMER

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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