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Chapter
History
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Greenwich Tea Burning Chapter was organized July
12, 1904. It was named for
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The
Organizing Regent was Caroline Lawrence Tomlinson
(Mrs. Joseph). She served in that capacity from
1904-1913.
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Origin
of the Name: "Greenwich Tea Burning"
To placate the indignant colonists, England
at last took her obnoxious tax off everything
but tea.
Shortly after the occurrence of "The Boston
Tea Party," the East India Company sent
a brig, bound for Philadelphia, up the Cohansey
River and discharged a quantity of tea at Greenwich.
This was deposited in the cellar of a house,
standing in front of the Market Ground.
On the evening of December 22, 1774, a party
of young men from the vicinity of Greenwich,
disguised as Indians, took the tea from the
cellar. The tea was carried across Market Lane,
directly opposite its storage place and burned
on a slight knoll. This spot is west of the
site of the Tea Burning monument plot, which
is part of the acre used as the market ground
of colonial days.
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Bridgeton's
Liberty Bell
The bell was cast in 1763, and placed in the
court house, and, until taken down to send to
the Sesquicentennial, was in the tower of the
high school and used daily. On its return, it
was put back in the tower of the high school
and is again used daily.
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The
bell proclaimed America's independence from
the belfry of the court house, Bridgeton, upon
the signing of the Declaration of Independence
in 1776.
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The
above information and photographs from: "State
History of the New Jersey Daughters of the American
Revolution," 1929; compiled by Grace Louise Cadmus
and assisted by E. Jane Peer.
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