[10] “The continued refusal ... to receive tea ... had brought distress upon the East India Company.... Praying ... to export teas, free of all duties, to America ... Lord North proposed to give to the company itself the right of exporting its teas ... the ministry would not listen to the thought of relieving America from taxation.”—Idem, ch. 49, pp. 457, 458.
[11] “Massachusetts ... elected its Committee of Correspondence, fifteen in number. New Hampshire and Connecticut did the same, so that all New England and Virginia ... on the first emergency, ... could convene a congress.”—Idem, p. 460.
[12] “‘Brethren,’ they wrote, ‘we are reduced to this dilemma—either to sit down quiet ... or to rise up and resist ... we earnestly request your advice.’”—Idem, p. 476.
[13] See “Our First Break with the British,” note 27. Also Idem, vol. v., ch. 16, p. 310.
[14] “A large flag was hung out on the pole at Liberty Tree; the bells in the meeting-houses were rung from eleven till noon.”—Idem, vol. vi., ch. 50, p. 473
[15] “Molineux read a paper requiring the consignee to promise not to sell the teas, but to return them.... Then read ... a Resolve passed at Liberty Tree that the consignees who should refuse ... were enemies to their country.”—Idem, pp. 473, 474.
[16] “Each and all answered: ‘I cannot comply.’”—Idem.
[17] “There was once more a legal Town Meeting to entreat the consignees to resign. Upon their repeated refusal, the town passed no vote ... but ... broke up.”—Idem, p. 475.
[18] “The Committee of Correspondence ... authorized Samuel Adams to invite ... Dorchester, Rozbury, etc., ... to hold a mass meeting ... the assembly resolved unanimously that ‘the tea should be sent back ... at all events.’”—Idem, pp. 477, 478. See also the reply of the towns, p. 483.
[19] “Sunday, the 28th of November,” 1773.—Idem, p. 477.