Postscript to the Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser. [Philadelphia: J. Dunlap, December 1773.] No 112. Broadsheet extra, 486 x 324 mm. Text printed in four columns. Slight toning and a few spots. REPORTING THE LEAD UP TO THE BOSTON TEA PARTY. The first page is mostly taken up with an account of the assembly held in the Old South Meeting House in Boston on November 29 and 30, in which motions were passed to prevent the unloading of tea from ships in Boston Harbor, and to require the ships to return to England without paying the protested import tax instituted by the Tea Act of 1773 (see preceding lot). The account details the votes taken to refuse orders from Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson to disperse and desist; to refuse requests from the ships' agents to be granted permission to unload and store the tea until word could be received from the East-India Company on how to proceed; to resist by various means the unloading of the tea; and to have the proceedings of the meeting transmitted to New York and Philadelphia. Samuel Adams, John Hancock William Phillips John Rowe, and Jonathan Williams are named as the committee members responsible for seeing to this last task. The front page also carries a letter to the tradesmen of Philadelphia, urging them to support efforts to resist the Tea Act. John Dunlap of course was the future printer of the Declaration of Independence. On December 16, two weeks after the meeting in the Old South Meeting House, a group of several dozen men boarded the three vessels and dumped all 342 chests of tea on board into Boston Harbor.
Postscript to the Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser. [Philadelphia: J. Dunlap, December 1773.] No 112. Broadsheet extra, 486 x 324 mm. Text printed in four columns. Slight toning and a few spots. REPORTING THE LEAD UP TO THE BOSTON TEA PARTY. The first page is mostly taken up with an account of the assembly held in the Old South Meeting House in Boston on November 29 and 30, in which motions were passed to prevent the unloading of tea from ships in Boston Harbor, and to require the ships to return to England without paying the protested import tax instituted by the Tea Act of 1773 (see preceding lot). The account details the votes taken to refuse orders from Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson to disperse and desist; to refuse requests from the ships' agents to be granted permission to unload and store the tea until word could be received from the East-India Company on how to proceed; to resist by various means the unloading of the tea; and to have the proceedings of the meeting transmitted to New York and Philadelphia. Samuel Adams, John Hancock William Phillips John Rowe, and Jonathan Williams are named as the committee members responsible for seeing to this last task. The front page also carries a letter to the tradesmen of Philadelphia, urging them to support efforts to resist the Tea Act. John Dunlap of course was the future printer of the Declaration of Independence. On December 16, two weeks after the meeting in the Old South Meeting House, a group of several dozen men boarded the three vessels and dumped all 342 chests of tea on board into Boston Harbor.
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