One who did was the British naval commander in North America, Admiral Montagu, widely known by June 1773 to have commented ‘that British Acts of Parliament will never go down in America, unless forced by the point of the sword’. 28 Montagu was stationed at Boston, and there the political situation had once again flared up over the so-called ...

As the Tea Act was passed in 1773 the amount of tea shipped to America increased significantly by 279% and duty collection by 250%. Colonists reactions to the Tea Act Crisis and the Boston Tea Party is reflected in the 1774 collection of duties and imports. There was a 90% decrease on tea imports and duty collection was 74% lower than the ...

The Tea Act, 1773, British Parliment. An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to impower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free.

October 12, 1773 — America’s first insane asylum opened today in Williamsburg, Virginia for “Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds.” A two-story brick institution south of Francis Street, this public hospital was founded at the urging of Governor Francis Fauquier, who believed science could be employed to cure “persons who are so unhappy as to be deprived of their reason.”

The Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo 3 c 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea, smuggled into Britain's North American …

4 June – 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole sets out from the Nore. June – John Harrison receives the Longitude prize for his invention of the first marine chronometer. [6] 1 July – Parliament passes the Inclosure Act. 16 December – a group of American colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the East India ...

When Mary Morgan was born in 1773, in Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joshua Morgan, was 40 and her mother, Esther Stoddard, was 32. She had at least 4 sons and 4 daughters with Thomas Edgecomb. She died in 1838, in Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, United States, at the age of 65.

Founded in 1773 and commonly regarded as “America’s First Museum,” The Charleston Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. ... which Harvard scientist Louis Aggasiz declared in 1852 to be among the finest in America. Operations were temporarily suspended due to the Civil War, but began ...