Re: Quarterman Dates

[SusanG1400@aol.com]

Dear Mr. Quarterman,

       Thank you for sending me the websites about the tea parties in the United States during the Revolutionary War.  I just read a fictional account of the tea party in Greenwich, New Jersey.  The British ship offloaded the tea in Greenwich and left.  On December 22, 1773 (The Boston Tea Party was on December 16, 1773.) young men dressed as Indians entered the basement of the home of the Tory (British sympathizer) colonist Dan Bowen in Greenwich, New Jersey and took out the chests of tea from his basement.  The tea was dumped in the market square in Greenwich and burned.  This account also says that after the Boston Tea Party, but before the Greenwich Tea Party, British tea was burned by the colonists in Annapolis, Maryland.
       My husband, who was a history professor at a university, told me that the real reason for the tea parties was that certain colonists were smuggling tea into the Thirteen Colonies and they wanted the colonists to buy their smuggled tea.  The smuggled tea cost more than the tea brought in by the British East India Company!

Sincerely,

Susan Sinclair Grady