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Peggy Stewart was a Maryland cargo vessel burned on October 19, 1774, in Annapolis as a punishment for contravening the boycott on tea imports which had been imposed in retaliation for the British occupation of Boston following the Boston Tea Party. This event became known as the "Annapolis Tea Party". [1]
The Burning of the Peggy Stewart. Sailing into Annapolis harbor October 14, 1774 the ill-fated and heavily laden brig Peggy Stewart was soon to ignite a firestorm in the American Colonies fight against British tyranny and taxation without representation.
On October 15, 1774, the ship Peggy Stewart sailed up the Severn River and into the Annapolis harbor with a load of “seventeen packages, containing 2320 lb. of that detestable weed tea.” Handbills were immediately circulated through the city calling for a public meeting.
The Peggy Stewart, a brigantine, loaded with goods consigned to the Thomas Charles Williams & Co., arrived in the port of Annapolis, Maryland from London, England on October 14, 1774. Hidden in the ship’s hull, unbeknownst to the ship’s captain, Richard Jackson, were seventeen and a half chests, over 2,000 pounds, of tea.
Dec 16, 2012 · On October 14, 1774 the Peggy Stewart docked in the Annapolis port. The brig was owned by a Maryland shipping company under James Dick and his son-in-law, Anthony Stewart, and was carrying a cargo of indentured servants and tea.
- Will Hughes
Jul 18, 2020 · In 1774 – well after the Boston Tea Party – the Peggy Stewart was surreptitiously loaded with a cargo of tea by their merchant in London (apparently against the captain’s objections and his American counterpart’s wishes).
On October 19, 1774, Annapolis experienced its own “tea party,” much like the uprising the year before in Boston Harbor. Angry mobs forced Anthony Stewart to burn his ship, Peggy Stewart, and the tea it carried, because he had violated the non-importation resolution implemented by the colonists.
