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| New Jersey (Cumberland County), Greenwich — Greenwich Tea Burning Monument | | | Monument front:
In honor of the Patriots of Cumberland Co., NJ who—on the evening of December 22, 1774—burned British tea near this site.
List of Patriots on Marker:
Tea Burners
Ebenezer Elmer
Timothy Elmer
James Ewing
Thomas Ewing
Joel Fithian
Philip V. Fithian
Lewis Howell
Richard Howell
James B. Hunt
John Hunt
Andrew Hunter, Jr.
Joel Miller — Map (db m17692) | | New Jersey (Cumberland County), Greenwich — Hot Tea — Greenwich Tea Burning Monument — Maritime History | | | In the winter of 1774, the American colonies were struggling to define their future relationship with Great Britain. The British tax on tea had sparked the 1773 Boston Tea Party. The harsh response, to close the port of Boston, lead to the First Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia. Congress’s non-importation, non-exportation agreement asked colonists not to buy or sell goods from the mother country as a way of putting economic pressure on England. Not far from this spot, in the dark of . . . — Map (db m17730) |
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