You’ll come face-to-face with these patriots-and even get the chance to dump tea overboard with them! You’ll journey again in time to December 16, 1773, when the colonists marched onboard the tea ships docked in Griffin’s Wharf. Colonists in Philadelphia and New York turned the tea ships back to Britain. In Boston the Royal Governor was stubborn and held the ships in port, where the colonists wouldn't permit them to unload. He held varied posts in Boston, together with serving on the Boston Board of Selectmen. Four centers, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston have been selected. In Charleston the cargo was left to rot on the docks. In Annapolis the ship owner was pressured by indignant demonstrators to set fireplace to his ship and its cargo of tea. Majesty's customs for the port of London, upon the back of the licence, and the exportation thereof, verified by the oath of the husband or agent for the stated united firm, to be wrote at the underside of such certificate, and sworn before the stated collector and comptroller of the customs, (which oath they are hereby impowered to administer,) it shall and could also be lawful for such collector and comptroller to write down off and discharge the quantity of tea so exported from the warrant of the respective ship wherein such tea was imported.

2. And whereas by one other act made within the eighteenth 12 months of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, (intituled, An act for repealing the current inland responsibility of 4 shillings per pound weight upon all tea offered in Great Britain