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At [[Boston]], meetings grew larger and larger in response to the tea act. Thousands of citizens packed [[Faneuil Hall]], eventually forcing patriot leaders to move their meetings to the larger Old South Meeting House, a Congregational Church in downtown Boston.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyculture/fh.htm Faneuil Hall]</ref> When the tea ships the ''Beaver'', the ''Dartmouth'', and the ''Eleanor''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WLVLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT366 Architects of Anglo-American Justice]</ref> arrived they remained unloaded by the authority of [[Massachusetts]] governor [[Thomas Hutchinson]].  The Governor was determined to force the colonists to pay the duties on the tea, and issued orders that no British ship was to leave port without unloading their cargo.

At [[Boston]], meetings grew larger and larger in response to the tea act. Thousands of citizens packed [[Faneuil Hall]], eventually forcing patriot leaders to move their meetings to the larger Old South Meeting House, a Congregational Church in downtown Boston.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyculture/fh.htm Faneuil Hall]</ref> When the tea ships the ''Beaver'', the ''Dartmouth'', and the ''Eleanor''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WLVLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT366 Architects of Anglo-American Justice]</ref> arrived they remained unloaded by the authority of [[Massachusetts]] governor [[Thomas Hutchinson]].  The Governor was determined to force the colonists to pay the duties on the tea, and issued orders that no British ship was to leave port without unloading their cargo.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, [[Paul Revere]] and other members of the [[Sons of Liberty]], thinly-disguised as [[Native Americans]], boarded the three British East India Company ships moored to the piers of ''Griffin's Wharf'' and threw the entire cargo of tea into the harbor.  Boston brewer and patriot [[Samuel Adams]], as well as [[John Hancock]] were present during the events.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, [[Paul Revere]] and other members of the [[Sons of Liberty]], thinly-disguised as [[Native Americans]], boarded the three British East India Company ships moored to the piers of ''Griffin's Wharf'' and threw the entire cargo of tea into the harbor.  Boston brewer and patriot [[Samuel Adams]], as well as [[John Hancock]], were present during the events.

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