Tea Affair Hardens Province Defends Ports
Boston report from December 20 describes maritime tensions over East India tea shipments. A Boston meeting pressed for customs clearances while Governor Rotch refused, prompting protests and adjournments. The assembly conveyed resistance to tea landings, with warnings against violating colonial authority and external powers and noting violence and property risk in ongoing disputes.
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East-India
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Matife
Philadelphia
Sharp ignition wounds strike Canterbury couple
A man named Chittenden accidentally discharged a loaded fowling piece striking his wife in Beth, causing fatal injuries soon after. In Gosport, a twelve oared barge with gilt interior is being built in the dockyard as a possible present from a Ruffian Admiral to the Empress of Ruffia, to be transported by a Ruffian frigate.
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Chittenden
Brookland
Beth
Gosport
Rumford
Seely
Barl-street
Bethnal Green
Gloucestershire
Aldgate
Greens Dragon
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Great Marlow
Buckinghamshire
William Blizard
Carter
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the Sherwin
Arrivals and sailings amid Jamaica and European ports
Shipping news lists vessels arriving and sailing including Albion Campbell from St Vincent and Henry Richardton bound for Jamaica, with numerous others from Malaga Seville Waterford and Liverpool. The report notes wartime dispatches, troop movements, and militia taxation alongside civil notices and local magistrate activity.
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Beifey
Duell
Alicant
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Richardton
Wargd
Douglas
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Jane
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Gorke
Berrey
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Fron
Angus
Lonidon
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Clark
Jeesy
Briffal
Rookshaven
Hamburgh
Merchant
Barclay
London
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