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  2. Boston Tea Party - Wikipedia

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    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [ 2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.

  3. Monkhouse Davison - Wikipedia

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    Monkhouse Davison (1713–1793) was the senior partner in one of the leading grocers in 18th century London, Davison Newman and Co., that imported a wide range of produce including tea, coffee, sugar and spices. The company is best known today for the disposal of chests of its tea in the Boston Tea Party at the start of the American Revolution.

  4. Tea Act - Wikipedia

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    The company's authorised consignees were harassed, and in many colonies, successful efforts were made to prevent the tea from being landed. In Boston, this resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, when colonists (some disguised as Native Americans) boarded tea ships anchored in the harbour and dumped their tea cargo ...

  5. Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party with ...

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    Dunbar House Tea Room, shown here in 2021, will host a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16. Tickets are $45 per person and reservations can be made online at ...

  6. 250 years after the Boston Tea Party, America still ... - AOL

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    There are more than 13,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S.–and over 900 tax types that a tea merchant can encounter selling domestically and abroad.

  7. George Robert Twelves Hewes - Wikipedia

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    George Robert Twelves Hewes (August 25, 1742 – November 5, 1840) [1] was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer. Shortly before his ...

  8. History of Boston - Wikipedia

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    On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of tea in the harbor in the Boston Tea Party. [38] The Sons of Liberty decided to take action to defy Britain's new tax on tea, but the British government retaliated with a series of punitive laws, closing down the Port of Boston and stripping ...

  9. Boston Harbor - Wikipedia

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    Boston Harbor. Coordinates: 42°20′30″N 70°57′58″W. Topographic map of Boston Harbor. USCGC James pulls into Harbor in August 2015. Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, located adjacent to Boston Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the Northeastern United States.

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