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177316 December 1773 · Boston waterfront

Boston Tea Party

Hand-coloured 1846 lithograph of colonists throwing chests of tea from a ship into Boston Harbor
Archival image: N. Currier. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

After a mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House, colonists, some disguised as Mohawks, boarded three ships at Griffin's Wharf and dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor in protest at taxes set by a Parliament in which they had no vote. Britain answered with the Coercive Acts, closing the port, which pushed the colonies towards armed revolt.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Old South Meeting House1729 meeting house where the protest meeting gathered that night.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Boston Tea Party Ships & MuseumReplica ships on Fort Point Channel near the original wharf, now filled land.Map ↗

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