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Plaque commemorating the Edenton Tea Party, October 25, 1774. Located inside the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina. In October 1774, 51 ladies from Edenton and the surrounding area signed a statement, dated October 25, 1774, supporting the resolutions passed by the first North Carolina Provincial Congress in the previous August. [14]
Details are sketchy as to who organized and led the Edenton Tea Party, but Penelope Barker is most identified with the event where 51 Edenton ladies signed a petition protesting taxes on English ...
Plaque commemorating the Edenton Tea Party, October 25, 1774. Located inside the North Carolina State Capitol, Raleigh, North Carolina. Barker was known as a patriot of the Revolution and ten months after the famous Boston Tea Party, she organized a Tea Party of her own. Barker wrote a statement proposing a boycott of British goods, like cloth ...
October 25 – The Edenton Tea Party takes place in North Carolina, marking the first major gathering of women in support of the American cause. October 26 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia. November 4 – The Maryland Jockey Club follows a recommendation of the Continental Congress and cancels its race schedule. The ...
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A landmark in women's history occurred in Edenton in 1774. Fifty-one women in Edenton, led by Penelope Barker, signed a protest petition agreeing to boycott English tea and other products, in what became known, decades later, as the Edenton Tea Party. The Edenton Tea Party is the first known political action by women in the British American ...
Party Politics in the Continental Congress. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8191-6525-5. Launitz-Schurer, Loyal Whigs and Revolutionaries, The making of the revolution in New York, 1765-1776, 1980, ISBN 0-8147-4994-1; Ketchum, Richard, Divided Loyalties, How the American Revolution came to New York, 2002, ISBN 0-8050-6120-7
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