The Historic Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773: Its Men and Objects: Incidents Leading To, Accompanying, and Following the Throwing Overboard of the Tea, Including a Short Account of the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, with Patriotic Lessons
The Historic Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773: Its Men and Objects: Incidents Leading To, Accompanying, and Following the Throwing Overboard of the Tea, Including a Short Account of the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, with Patriotic Lessons
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...times were not quite so patriotic as some of the women of our own time, or else the strong flavor of the tea at that time overpowered some of them. Early on the morning of the 17th, as related by Hewes, a long windrow of tea, "about as big as you ever saw of hay," to use his words, was seen extending from the wharves ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...times were not quite so patriotic as some of the women of our own time, or else the strong flavor of the tea at that time overpowered some of them. Early on the morning of the 17th, as related by Hewes, a long windrow of tea, "about as big as you ever saw of hay," to use his words, was seen extending from the wharves in Boston down towards the castle. A party of volunteers was raised in a few minutes, who turned out in boats, and "stirred it up" pretty effectually in the big "pot" of the harbor. This manoeuvre, Hewes says, was witnessed, too, from the British fleet, but not at all interfered with. It was rumored a day or two after that part of a chest of tea had gone ashore at South Boston. A detachment of Whigs, or "Sons of Liberty," went over there and looked up the fellow who had taken it in charge. Finding he had sold some of the tea, they made him give up the money, took possession of the residue of the chest, marched in triumphal procession back to the Common, and there set it off to best advantage in a bonfire, just in front of John Hancock's house, who, as Hewes says, came to his front door to see it. Hancock's house stood west of the present State House, on Beacon street, fronting the Common. Some of this tea is said to be preserved at Harvard College. JOSHUA WYETH. Joshua Wyeth was born in Cambridge Oct. 22, 1758, He removed to the west after the war, and some of his descendants reside in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. He I was son of Ebenezer, Jr., and Sarah (Winship) Wyeth, and grandson of Ebenezer, Sr., and Susanna (Hancock) Wyeth, and great grandson of John and Deborah (Ward) Wyeth of Cambridge, his great, great grandfather, Nicholas Wyeth, being one of the earliest and most prominent settlers there, ...
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