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K004 - Records of the Legge family of Sandwell and Patshull, Barons Dartmouth, Earls of Dartmouth
- D(W)1778 - Papers of the Legge Family, Earls of Dartmouth
  - I - Public Office and political interests
    - 2 - Personal and political papers

Located At	Staffordshire Record Office
Level	Item
Doc Ref No	D(W)1778/I/ii/902/1-5
Title	Governor Hutchinson to Earl of Dartmouth
Date	4 Nov 1773
Description	Copy extract, enclosing copies of letters showing the attempts of the rioters to intimidate the consignees of teas from the East India Company 4 Nov 1773, copy of a printed hand-bill posted up at Boston summoning the freemen to meet at Liberty Tree to hear the consignees of tea make a public resignation of their offices as consignees 1773, papers endorsed "Copy of Narrative" being accounts of attacks made by the rioters on the houses of the tea merchants, lists names of tea merchants For full description see HMC Calendar (11th Report Appendix 5), 1887, available for consultation at the Staffordshire Record Office and at the William Salt Library, Stafford