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Time to share some historical #BostonTeaParty treasures from our collections! We’re fortunate to hold #manuscripts & #materialculture that tell the story #OTDH 1773. First up, read the meeting minutes in the days before... 1/ http://www.masshist.org/database/426
Next, read about the party before the Party. This porcelain punch bowl was owned by Benjamin Edes family of Boston prior to #AmRev. On the afternoon of the Boston Tea Party, Edes entertained some of his fellow conspirators, serving them from this bowl. http://www.masshist.org/object-of-the-month/objects/the-party-before-the-boston-tea-party-2009-08-01
So what happened next? Read John Rowe’s account, written the next night. He describes the end of the town meeting & then the tea being "flung...Overboard,” lamenting that the situation could have been avoided. He states that 2,000 people were present. http://www.masshist.org/database/525
Plenty of Americans weighed in on the event. John Adams wrote to his friend James Warren: “The Dye is cast: The People have passed the River and cutt away the Bridge: last Night Three Cargoes of Tea, were emptied into the Harbour....
This is the grandest, Event, which has ever yet happened Since, the Controversy, with Britain, opened!” He added, “The Sublimity of it, charms me!” Read more about Adams and the aftereffects of the Tea Party here http://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/12/the-sublimity-of-it-charms-me-john-adams-and-the-boston-tea-party/ #AdamsPapers
And finally! Let’s wrap up this #BostonTeaParty with a favorite—the bottle of tea leaves collected onshore the next morning. https://www.masshist.org/database/231
