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

That as the said tea, on its importation, will be subject to the American duty, and as there is on that account a general and spirited opposition to its being sold, and being well convinced from the nature of the opposition, that so considerable a property of the Company will not be safe unless Government takes it under protection, your memorialists therefore humbly pray that your Excellency will be pleased to direct such steps to be taken for the preservation of the said tea, as your Excellency in your wisdom shall think most conducive to that end.

Henry White.[47]
Abr^m Lott.
Benj^m Booth.

New York, 1st Dec^r., 1773.

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BOSTON.

Proceedings of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, on the 18^th Nov^r., 1773, referred to by the agents in their letter of the 2^d Dec^r., are missing, supposed to be transmitted to Lord Dartmouth.[48]

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