Thread by @HUBhistory, A NOBLE SIGHT—to see th' accursed TEAMingled with MUD

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A NOBLE SIGHT—to see th' accursed TEA
Mingled with MUD—and ever for to be;
For KING and PRINCE shall know that we are FREE.

The destruction of the tea was carried out #OnThisDay in 1773. But what artifacts of the Tea Party remain in Boston today?

https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=402&img_step=1&mode=dual#page1

Well, there seems to be tea party tea everywhere you look, like this vial in the collection of the Old State House.

Or this vial, at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

http://www.masshist.org/database/231

This decidedly grosser version of the tea vial is on loan to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/02/14/original-tea-vial-boston-tea-party/

There's even a vial of tea way out in Worcester, in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.

https://www.americanantiquarian.org/beyondmidnight/exhibits/show/exhibition/item/34

(With all this tea gathered up at low tide the next morning, was any left to actually be destroyed??)

Of course, you can't destroy the tea without breaking open a few tea chests, and the Tea Party Museum holds one of two known surviving Tea Party tea chests.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/06/13/boston-tea-party-museum-and-old-south-meeting-house-unveil-rare-tea-chest-artifact/iZEp0OqGqWQ8ilfyU9AeXP/story.html

Phillis Wheatley's first volume of poetry was among the other cargoes and wasn't dumped in the harbor, but any remaining copies of the first printing may be Tea Party veterans.

https://npg.si.edu/blog/phillis-wheatley-her-life-poetry-and-legacy

Some of the participants drank from this punch bowl belonging to Benjamin Edes before they marched to Griffin's Wharf to destroy the tea.

http://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=1828&pid=3

And of course Old South Meeting House was a witness, where "the Body of the People" met for days to try to resolve the tea crisis, and where Sam Adams yelled “this meeting can do nothing more to save the country," the signal for the Tea Party to begin.

https://www.revolutionaryspaces.org/osmh/history-osmh/

What other artifacts of the Tea Party can still be found in Boston?

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