k most conducive to that
end.

HENRY WHITE.[47]
ABR^M LOTT.
BENJ^M BOOTH.

New York, 1st Dec^r., 1773.

[Illustration: Hutchinson]

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_BOSTON._

Proceedings of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, on the 18^th
Nov^r., 1773, referred to by the agents in their letter of the 2^d
Dec^r., are missing, supposed to be transmitted to Lord Dartmouth.[48]

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PETITION OF THE AGENTS, & PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF BOSTON THEREON,

_Referred to by the Agents in their Letter of the 2^d Decem^r._

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND THE HON'BLE HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL.

_The Petition of Rich^d Clarke & Sons, of Benj^n Faneuil, & Tho^s. &
Elisha Hutchinson._

That the Hon'ble East India Company, in London, have shipped a
considerable quantity of tea for the port of Boston, and as your
petitioners are _made_ to understand, will be consigned to their address
for sale.

That some of your petitioners have in consequence of this been cruelly
insulted in their persons and property; that they have had insulting and
incendiary letters left and thrown into their houses in the night; that
they have been repeatedly attacked by a large body of men; that one of
the houses of your petitioners was assaulted in the night by a
tumultuous and riotous assembly of people, and violent attempts made to
force the house for the space of two hours, that have greatly damaged
the same; that they are threatened in their persons and property, and
further with the destruction of the said tea on its arrival into the
port; and that the resolves and proceedings of the Town, in their
meetings on the 5^th and 18^th inst., are intended to be expressive of
the general sense of the Town, to which we beg leave to refer your
Excellency and the Honorable Board.

Your petitioners therefore beg leave to resign themselves, and the
property committed to their care, to your Excellency and Honors, as the
guardians and protectors of the people, humbly praying that measures may
be directed to, for the landing and securing the teas, until your
petitioners can be at liberty, openly and safely, to dispose of the
same, or until they can receive directions from their constituents.

Signed,