On this 250 years ago the Boston Committee of Correspondence and Sons of Liberty called a meeting of Bostonians and citizens from neighboring towns at Faneuil Hall to respond to the arrival of the Dartmouth and its cargo of East India Company tea. Sam Adams estimated the size of the crowd to be 5000 and the meeting was forced to shift to the larger Old South Meeting House. The people assembled demanded that the tea be returned to England and appointed a watch of 25 Sons of Liberty to guard Griffin’s Wharf to make sure the tea would not be unloaded.

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