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EJMP.773.001
4 Dec 1773:21 (1/1)
Boston, Monday, November 29. Yesterday morning Capt. Hall
from London, in the ship Dartmouth, came to anchor near the
Castle, in about eight weeks passage, and early this morning
came up into the harbour; on board of whom it is said, are
114 chests of the much talked of East-India company's tea,
the expected arrival of which pernicious article has for
some time past put all these northern colonies in a very
great ferment: And this morning the following notification
was posted up in all parts of the town, viz.
"Friends! Brethren! Fathers! That worst of plagues the
detestable tea shipped for this port by the East India
company is now arrived in this harbour, the hour of
destruction or manly opposition to the machinations of
tyranny stares you in the face; every friend to his country,
to himself and posterity, is now called upon to meet at
Faneuil-Hall, at nine o'clock, this day, (at which time the
bells, will ring) to make a united and successful resistance
to this last, worst and most destructive measure of
administration. Boston, Nov. 29, 1773.
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