Dbq On Boston Compromises

BOSTON MASSACHUSETTES: December 16, 1773. The Sons of Liberty are a group of colonists who organize in port cities to stop the East India Company from unloading their tea. In the Boston Harbor, they have been threatening captains bringing in the tea and the merchants who bought the tea. No tea was being unloaded in many ports because they were scared of the Sons of Liberty. However, in Boston the governor had decided to make sure that all tea was unloaded. He had refused the arriving ships’ captains’ papers they needed that would (continued)allow them to return back to England. As soon as the first ship had arrived in the harbor, the governor had demanded that the tea was to be unloaded. As things started to get tense in Boston, the Sons of

I had but a few hours of what we had intended to do. To prevent our discovery we had agreed to wear ragged closes and to disfigure ourselves to seem as if we were Indians. At the appointed hour we met at an old building by the wharf. When we were all there we fell in one after another as if by accident not to excite suspicion. We had a scout at the

We mourned the ship by the wharf and ordered the captain and the crew to open the hatch ways. We had assured the captain and his men that we had no intension of harming them. As the chests were brought up from the below decks, men opened them with axes while others brought them to the sides of the ship and dumped the contents over board. This same process was repeated on each ship. This had been the hardest work he had ever done. As they had continued dumping the tea crowds gathered on the wharf as they kept going on.”

Robert Session / Boston Tea Party-Eye Witness Account

“I was but a young man whose home relations where in Connecticut. I was not one who was appointed to destroy the tea but I was just a volunteer. We had seen that there was too small of a group to throw all the tea overboard so young men that where just like me who did not live hear decided to pitch in and help throw the tea over with them. Perfect regularity prevailed during the whole transaction. Although there were many colonists people on the wharf entire silence was kept no clamor, no talking. When we were done on the boat we swept the boat clean and everything put in its proper place we had meddled with nothing else but the tea.”

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Alexander Hodgons /Boston Tea Party-Eye Witness