Good tea-related reports...

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December 31, 1773

CONNECTICUT JOURNAL & NEW HAVEN POST-BOY, Dec. 31, 1773 Most of the front page is taken up with the conclusion of the continued article: "Remainder of the Observations Upon the Slavery of Negroes".
Page 2 has a report from London which signals what would come to pass in a few years: "It is a fact as curious as it is extraordinary, that our American colonists begin already to look forward to an era which they think will be signalized by an emancipation from the tyranny of Britain..." with more.
Page 3 has an item from Boston dated Dec. 23, 7 days after the Boston Tea Party, noting: "The East India Company tea commissioners still remain immured at Castle William. Their obstinacy has rendered them infinitely more obnoxious to their countrymen than even the Stamp-Masters were. Their zeal in the cause against the liberties of America..." and a bit more.
Page 3 also has a nice & detailed half-column account of the tea situation in South Carolina, with a report from Charleston noting in part: "...an account that 270 chests of tea were arrived...was alleged that tea had ever been spontaneously imported 7 the duty paid; that every subject had an equal right to send that article from the Mother country into their province...this produced a general resolution of the citizens that from that time no tea should be permitted to be landed in South Carolina whilst the article was subject to a duty; and also that the tea...should be peremptorily sent back to England without being landed..." and more.
Some very nice tea-related content from the month of the Boston Tea Party.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed with original deckle edges, handsome engraving of a post-boy in the masthead, very nice condition.

Category: Revolutionary War