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The Boston Tea Party

An excerpt from Tea Leaves, an 1884 collection of letters and documents relating to the Boston Tea Party.

An excerpt from Tea Leaves, an 1884 collection of letters and documents relating to the Boston Tea Party.

George Dudley was an official and former chairman of the East India Company in London. The writer of this letter adopted the pseudonym Anglo Americanus.

Citation Information: Excerpts from “Tea leaves: being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/96d60b8bf26d5ec98c9bd4d4eb6140a4.

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An excerpt from Traits of the Tea Party, a memoir of George Hewes, a Tea Party participant, 1835.

An excerpt from Tea Leaves, an 1884 collection of letters and documents relating to the Boston Tea Party.

A notice from Boston announcing the British law blocking Boston Harbor until the East India Company was compensated for its lost tea, 1774.

A cartoon titled “The Bostonians in Distress,” published in London, November 1774.

A political cartoon, “Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught,” published in both London and Boston in May and June 1774.

An engraving published in London titled “The Tea-Tax Tempest,” 1778.

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