OTDIH, Jan 10, 1774 The Boton Gazette publishes a letter from Baltimore detailing what resident
OTDIH, Jan 10, 1774 The Boton Gazette publishes a letter from Baltimore detailing what residents of that city had heard about the Tea Party. Included among this is the claim that 2,000 men were signed up to destroy the tea if needed.This claim is quite baseless on the face of it, since a large number of participants were apprentices and such who joined the activities that night without being involved in the process beforehand.OTOH, there were probably at least 2,000 in the crowd. -- source link
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