OTHER “TEA PARTIES” IN THE COLONIES
LOCATION
DATE
Charleston,
South Carolina Dec. 22, 1773
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Boston,
Massachussetts
New York,
New York
York,
Maine
Annapolis,
Maryland
Charleston,
South Carolina
Yorktown,
Virginia
Dec. 25, 1773
# OF
TEA CHESTS
257
698
SHIP/S
OUTCOME
London
After 22 days in port, the tea is
seized and stored in a warehouse. It stays there until
1776, when tea sales go to
finance Revolutionary efforts.
Polly
Mar. 7, 1774
16
William
Believing that they had found
some of the 58 chests of tea
from the William’s hold, men
raid a merchant’s shop & dump
16 chests into Boston harbor.
April 1774
698,
18
Nancy,
London
The Nancy, with 698 chests, is
forced to turn back to England.
Later that month, 18 smuggled
chests of tea are discovered
aboard London and destroyed.
Cynthia
When the tea is discovered, it
is seized by the Sons of
Liberty & placed in a storeroom. The room is later raided
and the tea stolen.
150 pounds
Sept. 23, 1774
(1 half-chest)
Oct. 19, 1774
Nov. 3, 1774
Nov. 7, 1774
Elizabeth-town,
Nov. 25, 1774
Maryland
17 “packages”
(2,000+ lbs.)
7
2 half-chests
1
Peggy Stewart
Merchant Thomas Williams is
caught trying to smuggle 17
packets of tea into Annapolis.
The ship’s owner, Anthony
Stewart, is forced to burn the
vessel and its cargo.
Magna Carta
The tea aboard Magna Carta
is landed, but local Sons of
Liberty force the tea agents to
dump their cargo into the
Cooper River.
Virginia
Residents of York County, VA
chose to enforce a recently
adopted boycott of E.I. tea by
dumping two half-chests into
the York River.
N.A.
Residents of Cumberland Co,
MD discover that John Parks
has smuggled a chest of tea into
the countryside. He is forced to
burn the tea in the town square.
Greyhound
The captain of the Greyhound,
fearful of bringing his tea to
Philadelphia, unloaded in
Greenwich. His tea was stolen
from a cellar & burned.
N.A.
Having agreed not to buy any
British imports until all taxes
were repealed, a group of
women in Wilmington burned
their tea in the town square.
(now Hagerstown)
Greenwich,
New Jersey
Wilmington,
North Carolina
After being surrounded by
8,000 angry citizens at a town
meeting in Philadelphia,
Captain Samuel Ayres agrees
to sail the tea back to England
Dec. 22, 1774
April 1775
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