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- GLC#
- GLC05098
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1773/11/23
- Author/Creator
- Bordman, Andrew, 1743-1817
- Title
- to John Winship
- Place Written
- Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Orders Winship to notify Cambridge freeholders of a meeting to discuss Parliament's passage of a tea tax by way of empowering the East India Company to export tea. Also notifies him of a proposed meeting of several towns to consider responses to the Tea Act. A note by Winship on the verso acknowledges his compliance. Bordman was the town clerk of Middlesex. Winship was the constable of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Written just before the Boston Tea Party
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