Posted on 10/31/2023 8:31:18 PM PDT by Jane Long
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The Boston Tea Party is the turning point in the struggle for American independence.
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Tea ship Dartmouth arrives in Boston Harbor
On this day in history, November 27, 1773, the tea ship Dartmouth arrives in Boston Harbor. This was the first of three ships in Boston that would be involved in the Boston Tea Party. Taxes on tea was a longstanding issue between the colonists and England. The Townshend Acts of 1767 taxed five items: glass, lead, painters colors, paper and tea. The Townshend Acts actually had the effect of lowering the price of tea in the colonies, because it removed a duty paid by the British East India Company, allowing them to sell tea more cheaply. The colonists, however, were not inclined to pay any tax and boycotted British goods until the taxes were repealed in 1770... except for the tax on tea!
The British East India Company fell into serious debt and Parliament tried to help with the Tea Act of 1773, allowing the Company to ship its goods directly and more cheaply to the colonies by bypassing the middlemen in England who raised the price. This arrangement would save the British East India Company from bankruptcy because it would sell more tea and it would still affirm Parliament’s right to tax the colonies because the tea tax was still in place.
Once the Tea Act was passed, the Company sent tea to several American ports. The tea never landed in New York or Philadelphia because patriots wouldn’t allow it to be unloaded and the ships returned home. In Charleston, the tea was confiscated and resold to fund patriot activity against the British.
More dramatic events unfolded in Boston. The Company had sent four ships to Boston. The Dartmouth arrived on November 27th, but colonists wouldn’t allow it to be unloaded. Two other ships arrived over the next two weeks and the fourth was lost in a storm. Patriots posted sentries to make sure the tea wasn’t unloaded. By law, if import duties were not paid within 20 days, the ships and their cargo were to be confiscated and sold to pay the duties. Consequently, Governor Thomas Hutchinson would not allow the ships to return to England, which the owners and captains had volunteered to do.
The deadline for the confiscation was December 17. The colonists wanted to prevent the confiscation and sale of the cargo and ships since the money would still be used to pay the unjust taxes. This is the reason they picked December 16th for the Boston Tea Party. After a rousing meeting at the Old South Meeting House, several thousand citizens marched to Griffin’s Wharf where the ships were docked. They cheered as dozens of men, some disguised as Indians to protect their identities, boarded the three ships and dumped 46 tons of tea into the harbor, so much that the water was brown for a week! Parliament’s response? To shut down the government of Massachusetts and close Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for. This response led directly to the colonists’ forming of the First Continental Congress to create a unified colonial response to these Intolerable Acts, and to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
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9:04 AM · Nov 27, 2023
I am so sick of this Democrat run government in my state of Washington.
They are still going on about breaching the dams and they won’t stop until they tear down almost everyone of them. All that to supposedly save the Salmon.
Here on the Eastside of the Cascades we need them for irrigation and renewable energy. If they get their way we will become a complete desert over here again. The wine industry and farms will be illiminated.
This goes to show how much they hate the people. They prefer Salmon over humanity.
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They really don't care about the salmon or nature, they just want total control in a confined area, therefor most of us dead.
Thanks, norsky.
I’m so impressed with your beautiful paintings, Spunky.
I just got word that my nephew who spent 2 yrs. in his sail-boat sailing the Pacific Ocean has now sold it and is moving to Texas and going to work for Space X.
2 years on a boat would make me a land lubber too.
He spent time on various islands. He loved it.
Well, let’s pray these buggers out, or a volcano take out the I 5 corridor between Olympia and Bellingham.
Ya, my sister did that too. Her husband was a teacher and he took a year sabbatical to sail from California to Samoa and Hawaii. Quite an adventure. Went to many remote islands.
Well how cool is that, Spunky? How nice....Space X! Whoo!
Do you think she might be one of the J6 prisoners?
“So then I sit down to this blob of boiled cornmeal with sauce on it.”
lol. Now I am Whispering this in my quietest voice, same thing with grits. I can’t let anybody around here hear that. The best thing about grits is the butter. Or the gravy made with sausage. That’s really where all the flavor comes from.
“chicken and dumplings”
Is that from the leftover chicken from yesterday? How do you make your dumplings?
Oh I forgot, that’s another thing. I have to draw the blinds and lock the doors when I make those light fluffy dumplings. Or if I make cornbread with flour in it. Or sugar. I like to do both!
wow, those are gorgeous! When you said you painted I had no idea. Those are exactly the kind of art I like, like what my grandfather did, I don’t know what it’s called when you actually paint what you were looking at but none of that impression is stuff for me!
The one with the train and the train station I love that. And the one with the streetcar, what city is that? And all the ones of Nature and the Beautiful Rivers.
But I’m amazed with is the variety of things that you are able to paint. Buildings, cities, beautiful nature scenes, vases with flowers. You are gifted.
Thanks so much for sharing those with us
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