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"Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, Dec. 4, 1773. Our tea consignees ..."
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This excerpted letter from an article in the December 1773 issue of the Boston-Gazette and County Journal, sent by a patriot in Philadelphia, admonshes Boston merchants for refusing to resign their commission to sell the East India Company's tea. Tea agents in New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston had already resigned their commissions.