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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC05098 |
From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1765-1774 |
Title | Andrew Bordman to John Winship regarding the taxation of tea |
Date | 23 November 1773 |
Author | Bordman, Andrew (1743-1817) |
Recipient | Winship, John |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Orders Winship to notify Cambridge freeholders of a meeting to discuss Parliament's passage of a tea tax by way of empowering the East India Company to export tea. Also notifies him of a proposed meeting of several towns to consider responses to the Tea Act. A note by Winship on the verso acknowledges his compliance. Bordman was the town clerk of Middlesex. Winship was the constable of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Written just before the Boston Tea Party. |
Subjects | Boston Tea Party Taxes or Taxation Merchants and Trade Commerce Finance Revolutionary War Government and Civics Rebellion |
People | Bordman, Andrew (1743-1817) Winship, John (1754-1822) |
Place written | Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Government & Politics; Banking & Economics |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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