at South
Carolina, and you may be assured the inhabitants of this city have
adopted the same sentiments, and are fully determined to carry them into
execution.

We therefore think it is a duty we owe to the said Company, as we can
neither receive the tea or pay the duty, to apprize you of your danger,
and to give you our opinion, that for the safety of your cargo, your
vessel, and your persons, it will be most prudent for you to return, as
soon as you can be supplied with such necessaries as you may have
occasion for on the voyage. Certain we are that you would fully concur
with us in the propriety of this advice were you as well acquainted with
the people's sentiments as we are, which you will learn from the
enclosed papers. We shall be glad to hear from you in answer hereto, and
to render you any services we can in your critical situation.

We are, your most obd^t serv^ts,

HENRY WHITE,
ABRAHAM LOTT & CO.
PIGOU & BOOTH.

To Cap^t. Benj^n Lockyer, of the ship Nancy.

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LETTER FROM CAP^T. LOCKYER TO THE AGENTS, TENDERING THE CARGO.

_With their Reply, referred to in their Letter of the 22^d.
April, 1774._

New York, April 20^th, 1774.

Gentlemen:

Having considered the circumstances mentioned in your
letters, which I received on my arrival, I have left the
ship and cargo at Sandy Hook, for their safety. Have now
waited on you with a tender of the cargo of tea shipped by
the Hon'ble East India Company, and consigned to you. I am
therefore ready to deliver the said cargo according to the
bill of lading.

I am, &c.,
BENJAMIN LOCKYER.

Messrs. White, Lott & Booth.

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New York, April 20, 1774.

Sir:

We have received your letter of this date, tendering to us
the cargo of tea shipped on board the Nancy, under your
command, by the Hon'ble East India Company, to our address,
in reply to which we have only to observe that we some time
ago acquainted the Hon'ble Court of Directors how violently
opposed the inhabitants in general were to the land