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Letter from John Andrews to William Barrell, 18 December 1773

Letter from John Andrews to William Barrell, 18 December 1773 Manuscript

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    On the evening of 18 December 1773, John Andrews, a young Boston merchant, after finishing his tea at home, set out to the waterfront to have an “ocular demonstration” of “what was going forward”—the destruction of the East India Company tea that we now know as the Boston Tea Party. Two days later, Andrews wrote a “more particular account” of the events he witnessed in a letter to his bis brother-in-law.