How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

The London Chronicle
London: Sold by J. Wilkie, From Thursday, January 20, to Saturday, January 22, 1774. Vol. XXXV, No. 2678. Printed newspaper. 4to. pp. (73)-80. Disbound; scattered spotting.

Reporting of the Boston Tea Party, reprinted from the December 20, 1773 report in the Boston Gazette: "A number of resolute men (dressed like Mohawks or Indians) determined to do all in their power to save their country from the ruin which their enemies had plotted, in less than four hours emptied every chest of Tea on board the three ships commanded by the Captains Hall, Bruce, and Coffin, amounting to 342 chests, into the sea! without the least damage done to the ships, or any other property."

A subsequent article reports on, "An inflammatory hand bill" that "was a few days ago distributed in Philadelphia, addressed to the Delaware Pilots, informing them, that a ship loaded with Tea is on her way to that port, being sent out for the purpose of enslaving and poisoning all the Americans...exhorting them to prevent her arrival..." It goes on to report that, "We hear from Philadelphia, that Captain Ayres, in a ship chartered by the East-India Company, to bring their Teas to that place, had arrived at the Cape of Delaware...but that the Pilots had refused to bring her up the river...that if they presumed to come thither, it would be at their peril, and the inevitable destruction of both vessel and cargo..."