Tea sold in America would carry no duty for the East India Company; instead, the tea would be taxed at the point of entry in colonial ports. Consignees, or special agents, were appointed in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston to receive and sell the tea.
In the fall of , as newspapers publish the particulars of the East India Company plan, colonists learn that the tea is coming. Protests soon circulate. Writing out of Philadelphia, "Scaevola" rebukes the tea agents, calling them political bombadiers. Refusing a summons to resign their commissions, Boston's tea agents counter that they are the true sons of liberty.
Demonstrating its decided disagreement, a patriot mob storms Richard Clarke's King Street shop on 3 November. Boston's consignees petition the governor to safeguard the tea once it arrives, but with British forces confined to Castle William since the unfortunate events of the Boston Massacre, Hutchinson is powerless to oblige.
The streets belong to the opposition. A meeting, open to all Bostonians and anyone from neighboring towns who chooses to attend a group identified as the Body , is called at Faneuil Hall.
When the crowd swells, it adjourns to Old South Meeting House. The Body speaks , demanding that the tea be returned, and the assembly appoints a watch of 25 men to guard Griffin's Wharf.
The smuggled tea became more expensive than the British East India Company tea. Smugglers like John Hancock and Samuel Adams were trying to protect their economic interests by opposing the Tea Act , and Samuel Adams sold the opposition of British tea to the Patriots on the pretext of the abolishment of human rights by being taxed without representation.
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