You’ll come face-to-face with these patriots-and even get the chance to dump tea overboard with them! You’ll journey again in time to December 16, 1773, when the colonists marched onboard the tea ships docked in Griffin’s Wharf. Colonists in Philadelphia and New York turned the tea ships again to Britain. In Boston the Royal Governor was stubborn and held the ships in port, where the colonists would not enable them to unload. He held various posts in Boston, together with serving on the Boston Board of Selectmen. Four centers, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston have been selected. In Charleston the cargo was left to rot on the docks. In Annapolis the ship proprietor was compelled by indignant demonstrators to set hearth to his ship and its cargo of tea. Majesty’s customs for the port of London, upon the again of the licence, and the exportation thereof, verified by the oath of the husband or agent for the mentioned united firm, to be wrote at the bottom of such certificate, and sworn earlier than the said collector and comptroller of the customs, (which oath they’re hereby impowered to administer,) it shall and may be lawful for such collector and comptroller to write down off and discharge the quantity of tea so exported from the warrant of the respective ship through which such tea was imported.

2. And whereas by one other act made within the eighteenth 12 months of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, (intituled, An act for repealing the current inland obligation of 4 shillings per pound weight upon all tea sold in Great Britain