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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".
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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 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.
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 ship, co-owned by James Dick and his son-in-law Anthony Stewart, carried a cargo of 53 indentured servants and 2,230 pounds of tea known as “the detestable weed tea,” 1 a product boycotted by the Colonies.
The burning of the Peggy Stewart in the Annapolis harbor was a violentpowerful demonstration of the revolutionary fervor brewing in Maryland just prior to the outbreak of the war. The original painting is on display in the Old House of Delegates Chamber.
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).
Oct 14, 2016 · A piece of wood from the hull of the Peggy Stewart, a ship burned and sunk in 1774 as part of a tax protest, one of the items being considered for the “History of Annapolis in 99 Objects”...
