**This article has been superseded.** The research below has been incorporated into the comprehensive article **[Teatown](/story/14_teatown)**, which combines the Neutral Ground context, the forensic five-witness analysis, the political economy of the tea raids, and the land history of Teatown Lake Reservation into a single narrative with full primary-source footnotes.

*Original article preserved for reference. For the current version with all corrections and new findings, see [Teatown](/story/14_teatown).*