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
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