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Bordman, Andrew, 1743-1817 to John Winship

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05098 Author/Creator: Bordman, Andrew, 1743-1817 Place Written: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Type: Autograph document signed Date: 1773/11/23 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm Order a Copy

Orders Winship to notify Cambridge freeholders of a meeting to discuss Parliament's passage of a tea tax by way of empowering the East India Company to export tea. Also notifies him of a proposed meeting of several towns to consider responses to the Tea Act. A note by Winship on the verso acknowledges his compliance. Bordman was the town clerk of Middlesex. Winship was the constable of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Written just before the Boston Tea Party

Bordman, Andrew, 1743-1817
Winship, John, 1754-1822

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