Rivington, James, 1724-1802 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00171 Author/Creator: Rivington, James, 1724-1802 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 28 July 1774 Pagination: 2p.+addr.+docket. 30.8 cm. x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy
Informs Knox that the regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers has embarked from New York to Boston, and that he has recommended them to Knox's shop. Having heard that Hyson tea was scarce in Boston, Rivington indicates that he has sent four chests of it to Knox and asks him to sell it. The tea will be transported by Captain Horsfall of the Fusiliers. Reports that a large shipment of tea and silk has come into New York from the Island of Ascention, where a New York vessell met up with a ship from the East India Company; on the way back to New York, the ship had "found means to elude all Enquiry." The tea is not under duty and is being sent to Boston discretely. Asks if Knox has any problems with this (illegal) trade. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.
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