| Description | "Since dating the within, all the tea which had arrived in the three vessels, Captains Bruce, Hall and Coffin, has been utterly destroyed by a number of persons disguised like Indians, who broke open the hatches, hoisted up the chests, stove them, and threw them overboard" the owners and others concerned dared not accept the Admiral's protection; their own lives, their families and their property must have been the forfeit |