Tea Leaves / Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to / the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year / 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, / notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

by Francis S. Drake

Joint security for the due execution of the commission for the disposal of the Company's teas by John Butler, Esq^r., and Tho^s Cochran, of Halifax.

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NEW YORK.

THE AGENTS OF NEW YORK, THEIR PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR,

Referred to in their Letter of the 1^st Dec^r.

To His Excellency William Tryon, Esq^r., Captain-General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of New York, and Territories depending thereon, in America, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the same.

The Memorial of Henry White, Abra^m Lott, & Benj^m Booth, of the City of New York, merchants.

Humbly sheweth:

That your memorialists have, by the last packet, received advices of their being appointed agents by the East India Com^y. for the sale of certain teas by them shipped and daily expected to arrive in this port.

That your memorialists are informed by letter from the Directors of the said Company, that they have given security in double the value of the tea, that a certificate of its being duly landed shall be returned to the custom house, in London.