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The East India Company's official inventory of the tea destroyed in Boston — which I discussed in these pages on December 17, 2009 — indicates that this particular cargo was shipped in full chests, weighing an average of 353 pounds each (net weight, not counting the chest itself); and in smaller chests that averaged 77 pounds net. Those smaller chests were about a quarter the weight of a full chest, so presumably they were "quarter chests". There don't seem to be any "half chests" on board.
So where did Withington's half chest come from?
(And Withington's find isn't the only "half chest" that purportedly came from the Tea Party.)
Dec 14, 2022, 11:39:01 AM
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