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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)

_Application of those Net proceeds to the following purposes:_

  To the revenue for the duty on 3,264,000, @ 3d.        L40,800

  To the ship owners, for freight from England to
    America, if according to the present rate of
    15 pr chest,                                           7,200

  To the ship owners for freight from China to
    England, according to Sir Richard Hotham's
    plan, of L21 pr ton, of 10 hundred weight, or
    for every 3 chests of tea,                            67,200

  To the purchase at Canton, if at 15 tale pr pecul
    would amount thus: say 3,264,000 lb., divided
    by 133-1/3 for each pecul, makes peculs 24,480
    @ 15 each, is tales 367,200, which, at 6s. 8d. pr
    tale, is sterling,                                   122,400

  Commission on the purchase in China,                     6,120

  Charges of all sorts, rated at 10s. pr chest,            4,600
                                                          ------
                                                         248,320

  To the Company for Net profit after all deductions}
  whatsoever upon the most reduced                  }     39,320
  estimate, upwards of 30 pr cent. on the purchase, }
  or
                                                          ------
                                                        L287,640




No. 2.


LETTER FROM MR. GILBERT BARKLY.

    Gentlemen:

    I take the liberty to enclose for your consideration a
    memorial, regarding the establishment of a branch from the
    East India house in one of the principal cities in North
    America. Should the design meet with your approbation, as I
    am well acquainted with the teas most saleable in that
    country, shall be extremely happy in giving you every
    information in my power, I have the honor to be with due
    esteem, gentlemen,

             Your most obedt. & very humble servant,

                                                 GILB'T BARKLY.
    Lombard Street,
        26th May, 1773.


    TO THE HON'BLE THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA
    COMPANY.

                            MEMORIAL.

    _The Memorial of Gilbert Barkly, merchant, in Philadelphia,
    in North America, who resided there upwards of sixteen
    years, and who is well acquainted with the consumption of
    that country, particularly in the article of Teas, &c._

    Humbly proposes. In order to put a final stop to that
    destructive trade of smuggling:

    That the Company should open a chamber in one of the
    principal, & central cities, of North America, under the
    direction of managers, and that an assortment of teas from
    England should be lodged in warehouses, and sales to
    commence quarterly upon the same terms & conditions as those
    in London.

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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)

_Application of those Net proceeds to the following purposes:_

  To the revenue for the duty on 3,264,000, @ 3d.        L40,800

  To the ship owners, for freight from England to
    America, if according to the present rate of
    15 pr chest,                                           7,200

  To the ship owners for freight from China to
    England, according to Sir Richard Hotham's
    plan, of L21 pr ton, of 10 hundred weight, or
    for every 3 chests of tea,                            67,200

  To the purchase at Canton, if at 15 tale pr pecul
    would amount thus: say 3,264,000 lb., divided
    by 133-1/3 for each pecul, makes peculs 24,480
    @ 15 each, is tales 367,200, which, at 6s. 8d. pr
    tale, is sterling,                                   122,400

  Commission on the purchase in China,                     6,120

  Charges of all sorts, rated at 10s. pr chest,            4,600
                                                          ------
                                                         248,320

  To the Company for Net profit after all deductions}
  whatsoever upon the most reduced                  }     39,320
  estimate, upwards of 30 pr cent. on the purchase, }
  or
                                                          ------
                                                        L287,640




No. 2.


LETTER FROM MR. GILBERT BARKLY.

    Gentlemen:

    I take the liberty to enclose for your consideration a
    memorial, regarding the establishment of a branch from the
    East India house in one of the principal cities in North
    America. Should the design meet with your approbation, as I
    am well acquainted with the teas most saleable in that
    country, shall be extremely happy in giving you every
    information in my power, I have the honor to be with due
    esteem, gentlemen,

             Your most obedt. & very humble servant,

                                                 GILB'T BARKLY.
    Lombard Street,
        26th May, 1773.


    TO THE HON'BLE THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA
    COMPANY.

                            MEMORIAL.

    _The Memorial of Gilbert Barkly, merchant, in Philadelphia,
    in North America, who resided there upwards of sixteen
    years, and who is well acquainted with the consumption of
    that country, particularly in the article of Teas, &c._

    Humbly proposes. In order to put a final stop to that
    destructive trade of smuggling:

    That the Company should open a chamber in one of the
    principal, & central cities, of North America, under the
    direction of managers, and that an assortment of teas from
    England should be lodged in warehouses, and sales to
    commence quarterly upon the same terms & conditions as those
    in London.

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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