BOSTON TEA PARTY

an incident in Colonial history, resulting from the dispute between the colonies and the mother country over the payment of duties without proper representation in Parliament. In November, and early in December, 1773, three ships arrived in Boston harbor with consignments of tea. A public meeting of Boston citizens was held to protest against the landing of this tea. The captains of the ships profe ed themselves willing to return to England without landing the tea, but the Colonial Governor refused to clear the ships without landing all their cargoes. The meeting, presided over by Samuel Adams, on December 16, ordered the skipper of the ships to make a personal appeal to the Governor for clearance apers. In the evening they = Laered fore the meeting, which h again convened and reported that the Governor had definitely refused. Ata signal, said to have been given by Adams, a number of young men, sed as Indians, marched down to the dock, _ boarded the ships and hurled the tea overboard, amounting to 342 chests, valued at $90,000. The result was that no more tea was shipped to the colonies from England.