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The Newburyport Tea Party

December 16, 2023December 16, 2023 Gordon Harris1 Comment
Newburyport Tea Party: Patriots burning tea in Market Square

When Parliament laid a tax on tea, the British locked all the tea that had arrived in Newburyport into the powder house. Eleazer Johnson led a group of men who shattered the door and burned the tea in Market Square.

Posted in Legends, Revolutionary WarTagged 1775, Newburyport, Revolutionary War, tea, tea party
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