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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Haverhill, a group referred to as 'honest Savages' and friends to American rights seized and burned a small quantity of Bohea tea stored at an inn by a peddling trader, showing the spread of freedom's spirit to remote areas.
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We hear from Cohos (a remote Part of this Province) that some Time last Week, a Number of honest Savages, Friends to the Rights of America, having Information of a small Quantity of Bohea-Tea, lodg'd by a pedling Trader, at the House of an Innholder in Haverhill, entered the same without Ceremony, and having seized on the execrated Weed, convey'd it into the public Road, and immediately made a burnt Offering of the Whole. A Proof this, that the same Spirit of Freedom pervades & enlivens the remotest Parts of our English Settlements.
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Haverhill
Event Date
Some Time Last Week
Outcome
small quantity of bohea-tea destroyed by burning
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a Number of honest Savages, Friends to the Rights of America, having Information of a small Quantity of Bohea-Tea, lodg'd by a pedling Trader, at the House of an Innholder in Haverhill, entered the same without Ceremony, and having seized on the execrated Weed, convey'd it into the public Road, and immediately made a burnt Offering of the Whole