This is a collections 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.

By 1770, there were about three million Colonists in New England. Britain looked upon them as her subjects and imposed taxes. Among the taxes imposed was a tax on tea.  THE BOSTON TEA PARTY was the response of Colonists to taxes without representation. They felt that they should not be taxed without a say in the government.

This work is the fascinating history about this daring event. It includes biographies and genealogical information, as well as documents and letters leading up to the event.

The biographies are arranged in alphabetical order.   Even if you do not have an ancestor in The Boston Tea Party, you will find this book full of fascinating information pertaining to the people of this time period.   It will help you understand your ancestors.

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" - Ref: Niles' Acts and principles of the Revolution, p. 326.

LETTER FROM MR. JONATHAN CLARKE.

The biography follows the letter. It reads:

(1) Richard, son of Francis Clarke, merchant, graduated at Harvard college, in 1729, and died in London, at the residence of his son-in-law, John Singleton Copley, the artist, February 27, 1795. He with his sons, Richard and Jonathan, constituting the firm of Richard Clarke & Sons, did business in King (now State) Street, and became exceedingly obnoxious to the people, on their refusal to resign their appointment as factors of the East India Company's tea. The residence of the Clarke's on School Street, (corner of Chapman Place,) was mobbed on the evening of November 17, 1773, but no serious damage was done. (This incident is fully detailed on a previous page.) Jonathan Clarke was in London in the summer of 1773, and received verbal instructions respecting the consignment of tea from the directors of the East India Company. Richard Clarke arrived in London December 24, 1775, after a passage of twenty-one days from Boston. The Clarkes were included in the Act of proscription, and their estates were confiscated. Richard Clarke was a nephew of Governor Hutchinson. His wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Edward Winslow, of Boston. Susan, his daughter, married Copley, the painter, and became the mother of Lord Lyndhurst. Another daughter, Mary, married Judge Samuel Barrett. Copley's portrait of Richard Clarke represents him as a man of commanding presence, with features resembling, in a remarkable degree, those of Washington, in the Stuart portrait.

Surnames that appear in biographies on this fiche are:

Ancrum Appleton

Barber Barnard Blowers Bolter Brattle Bradlee Brewer Brown Bruce Bull Burton

Campbell Chase Cheever Church Clarke Cochran Coffin Colesworthy Collier Condy Cooper Copley Crafts Crane Curtis

Danforth Davis Dolbear

Eaton Eayres Eckley Edes Erving Etheridge

Faneuil Fenno Foster Frothingham

Gammell Gore Grant Greene

Hall Hammond Hatch Hendley Hewes Hicks Hobbs Hodgdon Hotton Howard Howe Hunnewell Hunstable Hunt Hutchinson

Ingersoll

Jonnonnot

Kelly Kinnison Knox

Lee Lincoln Lloyd Loring Lott Lovering

Machin Macneil Mackintosh May Melvill Molineux Moore Morse Morris Mountford

Newell

Palmer Parker Payson Peck Peters Pierce Pitts Porter Pownall Prentiss Prince Proctor Purkitt

Quincy

Randall Revere Roby Rotch Rowe Royal Russell

Savage Scollay Sessions Shed Simpson Slater Spear Sprague Spurr Starr Stearns Stevens Story Swan

Tileston

Urann

Wallace Walpole Watson Wendell Wharton Wheeler White Williams Willis Winslow Wyeth

Young

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