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Bordman, Andrew (1743-1817) to John Winship

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05098 Author/Creator: Bordman, Andrew (1743-1817) Place Written: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Type: Autograph document signed Date: 23 November 1773 Pagination: 2 p. ; 30.5 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy

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

… In His Majestys Name you are hereby Required to Notifie [sic] and warn the freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Northwest Precinct in said Town Qualified by Law to Vote in Town Affairs that they Assemble at the Court House in said Town on Friday the Twenty Sixth day of this Instant November at Nine of the Clock in the forenoon. To consider of the late Act of the British Parliament impowering the East India Company to export Tea on their own Account to the British Plantations in America, and expose the same to sale which has very greatly Alarmed the American Colonies. In consequence of which the Committee of Correspondence for Boston have Requested the Committees of the Several Towns hereafter mentioned Vizt. Roxbury, Dorchester, Brooklyn and Cambridge to Confer with them upon so interesting an Occation [sic]; The Committees according met and in a very full meeting were Unanimously of Oppinion [sic] That it would be for the Pubick Weal, for the respective Town in this Province to be immediately Assembled to Consider upon measures most proper to be taken at this Alarming Crises.

Bordman, Andrew, 1743-1817
Winship, John, 1754-1822

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