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 Located alongside the Four Point Channel Bridge, the Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum offers an exciting immersion into the most important event leading to the American Revolution. Guests relive the act of rebellion aboard a replica of the ships on which the event occurred. On display in the interactive museum will be one of the only two existing tea chests tossed into the sea on that famous night.
When the British parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773, the American colonies became increasingly angry about the issue of taxation without representation. The colonies had already experienced commercial tariffs through the Sugar Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, and the Townshend Act of 1767. In late November of 1773, the tea from the East India Co. arrived in the Boston harbor on three ships, the Dartmouth, Eleanor and the Beaver, but the ships were prevented from unloading.
On December 16, 1773, a group of patriots, disguised as Mohawk Indians, left the South Meeting House and headed to Griffin’s Wharf, where the ships were docked. The patriots emptied 342 crates of tea into the sea, swept the decks, cleaned their shoes, and left the wharf. As they walked past the British Admiral’s home, he yelled a reminder that they “have got to pay the fiddler yet!” That evening’s event, now referred to as the Boston Tea Party, sparked the beginning of the American Revolution. |
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