15 passages in 6 source items for “The Westchester Tea Party”
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…They rescinded the large
export duty taxed on tea leaving British ports, retaining, however,
the small import duty of three pence per pound on American importations of the article. The Boston Tea Party occurred on the 16th
of December, 1773…
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Macdonald, John MacLean. The Operations and Skirmishes of the British and American Armies in 1776, Before the Battle of White Plains. Paper read at the New-York Historical Society, October 7, 1862, in the author's absence, by George H. Moore, Society librarian. Published as The McDonald Papers, Part I, Chapter 1 in Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. IV. White Plains, NY: WCHS, 1925-26.
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Westchester Tea party - New Castle
In the month of August, a cavalcade of about one hundred Dutchess County women suddenly appeared at Fishkill, where the riders paraded before the house…
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Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…it has been the custom of Xew England writers to withhold w hatever of honor or dishonor
there was in those doings of the party of tlie Opposition, in New York,
while the less significant "tea-party " of Boston has…
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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §935
— …it has been
the custom of Xew England writers to withhold w hatever of honor or dishonor
there was in those doings of
the party of tlie Opposition, in New York,
while
the less significant "
tea-
party " of Boston has…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §937
— …In his Field Bnr.k of
the Revulution, after
having devoted five pages to
the Boston "
Tea-
party" li., 497-5(i2) he
ventured to appropriate ten lines to
the greatly more significant doings
of Xew Y'ork, on
the…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §934
— …it has been
the custom of Xew England writers to withhold w hatever of honor or dishonor
there was in those doings of
the party of tlie Opposition, in New York,
while
the less significant "
tea-
party " of Boston has…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §939
— …
The reader will perceive, therefore, that
the opposition to
the importation of
Tea, into .\merica, with its pailinnientarv- tax imposed on it,
which
the Merchants instigated and encouraged, in
the seai>orts --
the
opposition was seen no where else than…
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after the Battle of White Plains that the excursion commonly called “The Westchester Tea-Party” took place. During the previous summer, a man whose name was John Arthur, who for some time had kept a grocery store in the City…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…Hook ; it has been the custom of New England writers to withhold whatever of honor or dishonor
there was in those doings of the party of the Opposition, in New York,
while the less significant "tea-paity " of Boston has…
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Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution §52
— …
The reader will perceive, therefore, that
the opposition to
the importation of
Tea, into America, with its parliamentary tax imposed on it,
which
the Merchants instigated and encouraged, in
the seaports --
the
opposition was seen no where else than within…
Macdonald, John MacLean. The McDonald Papers, Part I: Index. Publications of the WCHS, Vol. IV. 1925-26.
…6; his com-ment on Tryon's time of retreating, 127
Arthur, John, and the "Westchester tea party," 36-9
Austin, Major, discharged from the service for burning buildings in White Plains and barbarous treat-ment of women, 60
Backus…
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The McDonald Papers, Part I: Index §0
— …6; his com-ment on Tryon's time of retreating, 127
Arthur, John, and
the "
Westchester tea party," 36-9
Austin, Major, discharged from
the service for burning buildings in White Plains and barbarous treat-ment of women, 60
Backus…
The McDonald Papers, Part I: Index §11
— …Webbers, Isaac, guide, 68, 74, 75, 76
Westchester County, royalist in-habitants of, 3; farmers, plunder-ing of, 62-3
Westchester guides,
the, 66 ff. "
Westchester tea-
party,"
the, 36-9
Westchester Town, 4
West Farms, attempt to capture Col…