Boston Tea Party

Author: Joseph Warren Date: February 2-3, 1771 Source: Two sided day book page fragment in Joseph Warren’s handwriting, no signature. Sold at Kaminski’s Thanksgiving Auction November 30, 2008, Lot 008B for $550 plus 20% buyer’s premium. The document is currently presumed to be in private hands. Images by permission of Kaminski Auctions, Beverly, MA. As […]

Date: December 21, 1773 “Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee. Boston, Dec. 21st, 1773. Sir, – My respected friend, Mr. [Samuel] Adams, informs me of the honor he has done me by mentioning my name to you in his letters.  I can by no means lose so fair an opportunity of opening a correspondence with one […]

  Author: Anonymous Date: [late December 1773]      “Rally Mohawks, and bring your axes And tell King George we’ll pay no taxes on his foreign tea; His threats are vain, and vain to think To force our girls and wives to drink his vile Bohea! Then rally, boys, and hasten on To meet our […]

Dates: October 23, November 2, and November 3, 1773 Author: Abiel Ruddock as secretary of the Boston North End Caucus “October 23, 1773.  Gibbons Sharp Moderator. Voted – That this body will oppose the vending any Tea, sent by the East India Company to any part of the Continent, with our lives and fortunes. Voted […]