On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — October 21, 1773

On this day 250 years ago, Samuel Adams wrote a letter that he and Thomas Cushing signed on behalf of the Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence to the other colonies urging that all of the colonies be “united” in their resistance to Parliament’s efforts to sell East India Company tea in America.

Source: https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Meeting-of-the-First-Continental-Congress-in-1774; https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/samuel-adams#:~:text=On%20October%2021%2C%201773%2C%20Adams,took%20aim%20at%20the%20consignees.


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