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Collection Reference Number GLC05098
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1765-1774 
Title Andrew Bordman to John Winship regarding the taxation of tea
Date 23 November 1773
Author Bordman, Andrew (1743-1817)  
Recipient Winship, John  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Orders Winship to notify Cambridge freeholders of a meeting to discuss Parliament's passage of a tea tax by way of empowering the East India Company to export tea. Also notifies him of a proposed meeting of several towns to consider responses to the Tea Act. A note by Winship on the verso acknowledges his compliance. Bordman was the town clerk of Middlesex. Winship was the constable of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Written just before the Boston Tea Party.
Subjects Boston Tea Party  Taxes or Taxation  Merchants and Trade  Commerce  Finance  Revolutionary War  Government and Civics  Rebellion  
People Bordman, Andrew (1743-1817)  Winship, John (1754-1822)  
Place written Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Government & Politics; Banking & Economics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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