The historic tea-party of Edenton, October 25th, 1774. An incident in North Carolina connected with British taxation

In 1765, Adams organized the protest against the Stamp Act. Elected to the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature, Adams served from 1765 to 1774 and composed the great protest documents of the era, including the Circular Letter (1768) against the Townshend Acts. He fanned the flames of resistance and rebellion in the popular press, and after 1770, was chief architect of intercolonial “committees of correspondence,” which coordinated the developing revolution. Adams was a prime mover behind the Boston Tea Party of 1773. A principal member of the First Continental Congress, Samuel Adams participated in drafting the 1781 Articles of Confederation, preecursor of the Constitution. Main Event First to die in the cause of American liberty was the leader of the Boston mob, Crispus Attucks (born about 1723). He was almost certainly a black man, perhaps of partly Indian descent. Stats The protesters dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The cargo was valued at ё9,000—a tremendous amount of money in a day when a man earning E100 a year was considered moderately wealthy ...»