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<br> You’ll come face-to-face with these patriots-and even get the chance to dump tea overboard with them! You’ll journey back in time to December 16, 1773, when the colonists marched onboard the tea ships docked in Griffin’s Wharf. Colonists in Philadelphia and New York turned the tea ships back to Britain. In Boston the Royal Governor was stubborn and held the ships in port, the place the colonists would not allow them to unload. He held numerous posts in Boston, including serving on the Boston Board of Selectmen. Four centers, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston have been selected. In Charleston the cargo was left to rot on the docks. In Annapolis the ship owner was forced by angry demonstrators to set fireplace to his ship and its cargo of tea. Majesty's customs for the port of London, upon the back of the licence, and the exportation thereof, verified by the oath of the husband or agent for the stated united firm, to be wrote at the bottom of such certificate, and sworn before the stated collector and comptroller of the customs, (which oath they're hereby impowered to administer,) it shall and may be lawful for such collector and comptroller to jot down off and discharge the quantity of tea so exported from the warrant of the respective ship in which such tea was imported.<br> |
