On this day 250 years ago, handbills were posted in Boston threatening consignees of East India Company tea who had fled to the protection of the British Army and Navy on Castle Island in Boston Harbor with “such a reception as such vile ingrates deserve.” The handbills were signed by the “Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering.”

Source: Philbrick, Nathaniel, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (2013) at 10.