We were one of the thousands of people attended the annual artisans and craft fair. The weather was iffy but it did not rain too much. We got some nice gifts and saw some friends. We did some English line dancing and saw a lecture by John Fea. He wrote a book about Philip vickers Fithian. called The Way to Improvement Leads Home.The Dec. 23, 1774, journal entry of Philip Vickers Fithian marked the event that took place the night before, according to McAllister. Fithian, a chaplain who died in 1776 in New York, is viewed by many as one of the rebellion's leaders. Local historian Bob Francois said Fithian was inspired to burn the tea after traveling through Annapolis, Md., two months earlier, shortly after a similar episode there.
I have videos on YouTube that show this interesting lecture.
"There were about half a dozen of these tea parties," Francois said, also noting the most famous incident, the Boston Tea Party.
The Tea Burners' Monument marks 22 names of the rebels, though historians believe as many as 40 could have taken part.
Five men - Josiah Seeley, Joel Miller, Abraham Sheppard, and Ephraim and Silas Newcomb - faced trial in 1775 for their role in the event. According to McAllister, the brother of one of them was the county sheriff and he stacked the jury with revolutionaries. None were convicted. Several of the names - Sheppard, Seeley, Newcomb - are still carried by local residents descended from the revolutionaries.
For more information, call the Cumberland County Historical Society at 856-455-4055.
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