Essentials of United States history . fins Wharf wherethe tea vessels were lying. They boarded the ships and pro-ceeded quietly to their work. No damage was done to thevessel, nor was any person molested, but in about three hoursthree hundred and forty chests of tea were broken open andthe contents poured out into the sea. A multitude of spec-tators stood on the shore watching the bold proceeding, andwhen the work was done all returned to their homes and thecity again resumed its quiet. 123. The Peggy Stewart. At Annapolis, Maryland, 110 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY lived a Scotchman na
Essentials of United States history . fins Wharf wherethe tea vessels were lying. They boarded the ships and pro-ceeded quietly to their work. No damage was done to thevessel, nor was any person molested, but in about three hoursthree hundred and forty chests of tea were broken open andthe contents poured out into the sea. A multitude of spec-tators stood on the shore watching the bold proceeding, andwhen the work was done all returned to their homes and thecity again resumed its quiet. 123. The Peggy Stewart. At Annapolis, Maryland, 110 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY lived a Scotchman named Anthony Stewart. (>ne of his ves-sels, the Peggy Stewart, laden with tea, sailed in October,1771, into the harbor of Annapolis, then one of the mostimportant seaports in America. The men of .Maryland werejust as determined and jusl as patriotic as those of would not allow the tea to be landed. They even wentfurther than the Boston patriots had gone. A company ofyoung men, handed together as the Whig Club, rode into. The Stewart House at Annapolis. Annapolis on the morning of October 19. On their hatswas the motto, Liberty and Independence, or went to the house of Anthony Stewart, erected a rude•allows, and their leader, Dr. Charles A. Warlield, gave his choice, in these words: You must either gowith me and apply the torch to your own vessel, or hangbefore your own door. Stewart chose the former courseand was forthwith marched down to Windmill Point, where THE COLONIES ALIENATED 111 he was compelled to set fire to the vessel loaded with theobnoxious tea. Thus North and South alike resisted the attempt of theBritish Parliament to tax the colonies. 124. The First Continental Congress. — During the sum-mer of 1773 Committees of Correspondence were appointedin all the colonies, so that whatever was going on in any colonybecame quickly known from New Hampshire to , measures were taken to call a Continental Congressto consider
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