On this day 250 years ago, the Exchange building in Charleston was filled to capacity with angry Patriots upset with the arrival of the ship London carrying East India Company tea the day before. The crowd formed a Committee composed of Christopher Gadsden, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Ferguson and Daniel Cannon and many signed a non-importation agreement pledging not to import any tea. The Committee would evolve into South Carolina’s independent government in a little less than two years.

Source: https://www.powdermagazinemuseum.org/history250