To the Delaware pilots. : We took the pleasure, some days since, of kindly admonishing you to do your duty; if per-chance you should meet with the (tea,) ship Polly, Captain Ayres; a three decker which is hourly expected. ..

Name:

Committee for Tarring and Feathering (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Timespan:

Revolution, 1775-1783

Date:

1773

Language:

English

Provenance:

Nichols, William (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy); Marshall, William (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Tariff on tea -- United States; Tariff on tea; Colonies; History; Ayres, Samuel, 1893-1987; East India Company; Polly (Ship)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Broadsides; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 36 x 22 cm

Geographic Subject:

Great Britain -- Colonies -- America; Great Britain; America; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes; United States

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A second warning not to bring the expected tea-ship into the Delaware River.; Signed: The committee for tarring and feathering.; Followed by: To Capt Ayres, of the ship Polly, on a voyage from London to Philadelphia. .. Your friends to serve the committee as before subscribed Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1773.; Broadside.; Cf. RBC correspondence file "Abel James" 1958 for further information.; Culture Class Collection copy has ms. signatures on verso of Wm Nichols and William Marshall.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Mapcase AB7 P5306C2 773t

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)