On this day 250 years ago, “The People” of Boston met again at Old South Meeting House to consider the response of the East India Company’s consignees. The meeting was interrupted by the delivery of a proclamation of acting Governor Thomas Hutchinson that ordered the meeting “To disperse and to surcease all further unlawful proceedings at your utmost peril.”  “The People” ignored Hutchinson’s order and issued their own declaration that “It was solemnly voted by the body of the people of this and the neighboring towns assembled at the Old South meeting-house on Tuesday, the 30th day of November that the said tea never should be landed in this province.”

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