Tea permits issued by Elisha Williams to Leonard Chester 1775, June-Dec.

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Tea permits issued by Elisha Williams to Leonard Chester 1775, June-Dec.

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"Tea permits" issued by Elisha Williams, a magistrate in Wethersfield, Conn. who presided over a local association created in summer 1775 for the purpose of enforcing the boycott of English tea. The permits were granted to people who needed tea because of their "bodily infirmities." The tea permits are addressed to Leonard Chester, pharmacist. The recipients include: Mrs. Sarah Bartes, Edward Pattison, Mr. Sambern, Samuel Boltwood, Richard Lightfoot, Seaman Riley, Hosia Horris, and Mrs. Kellogg. Also included are two letters addressed to Charles J. Hoadley from E.V. Beeks of New Haven, Conn. (1875, July 8) and Charles E. Gross, a Hartford, Conn. attonery (1896, May 22). The latter mentions that the tea permits were part of "the exhibition of the Colonial Dames."

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Hoadly, Charles J. (Charles Jeremy), 1828-1900

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Williams, Elisha, fl. 1775, magistrate of Wethersfiled, Conn.

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Chester, Leonard, fl. 1775, pharmacist of Wethersfield, Conn.

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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

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(Mrs. James Starr, Jr. was the president of the PA chapter and chair of the National Committee for the Preservation of Existing Records) From the description of National Society of the Colonial Dames of America records, 1848-1918. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 232362062 A national organization, founded in 1891, composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who came to reside in an American colony before 1750 and whose services were rendered...

National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Connecticut

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