. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 2.âSusanna Truax, an American painting dated 1730. In collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, National Gallery of Art. On the beige, marble-like table top beside Susannaâwho wears a dress of red, black, and white stripesâare a fashionable silver teapot and white ceramic cup, saucer, and sugar dish. {Photo courtesy National Gallery oj .-Ir/.) to come at this piece of luxury" while one-third of the population "at a mocierate computation, drink tea twice a ; " It was at this time, however, that
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 2.âSusanna Truax, an American painting dated 1730. In collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, National Gallery of Art. On the beige, marble-like table top beside Susannaâwho wears a dress of red, black, and white stripesâare a fashionable silver teapot and white ceramic cup, saucer, and sugar dish. {Photo courtesy National Gallery oj .-Ir/.) to come at this piece of luxury" while one-third of the population "at a mocierate computation, drink tea twice a ; " It was at this time, however, that efforts were made to enforce the English tea tax and the result was that most famous of tea parties, the "Boston Tea ; Thereafter, an increasing number of colonists abstained from tea drinking as a patriotic gesture. Philip Fithian, a tutor at Nomini Hall, the Virginia plantation of Col. Robert Carter, wrote in his journal on Sunday, May 29, 1774: After dinner we had a Grand & agreeable Walk in & through the GardensâThere is great plenty of Strawberries, some Cherries, Goose berries &c.âDrank Coffee at four, they are now too patriotic to use tea. " Letter from Gilbert Barkly to directors of the East India Company, May 26, 1773. Tea Leaves: Being a Collection oJ Letters and Documents . ., edited by Francis S. Drake, Boston, 1884, p. 200. And indeed they were patriotic, for by September the taste of tea almost had been forgotten at Nomini Hall, as Fithian vividly recounted in his journal: 'â * Something in our palace this Evening, very merry hap- penedâMrs. Carter made a dish of Tea. At Coffee, she sent me a dishâ& the Colonel both ignorantâHe smelt, siptâ look'dâAt last with great gravity he asks what's this?âDo you ask SirâPoh!âAnd out he throws it splash a sacrifice to Vulcan. Other colonists, in their own way, also showed their distaste for tea (see fig. 3). Shortly before the out- break of the American Revolution there appea
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