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" We the Ladys of Edenton do hereby solemnly engage not to conform to that Pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England, until such time that all Acts which tend to enslave this... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 101
1929
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The Republic, Volumes 1-4

1851 - 1304 pages
...conform to that pernicious custom of drinking tea, or that we, the aforesaid ladies, will not promoto the wear of any manufacture from England, until such time that all acts which tend to enslave our native country shall be repealed." On the right of the picture, three ladies, whose appearance...
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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 1

John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1877 - 838 pages
...Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England untill such time that all Acts which tend to enslave this our Native Country shall be repealed." The other figures are not close around the table, and are emptying tea caddies or looking on. A child...
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The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries, Volume 28

1892 - 530 pages
...Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England, untill such time that all Acts which tend to enslave this our Native Country shall be repealed.' The other figures are not close around the table, and are emptying tea-caddies or looking on. A child...
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The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries, Volume 28

1892 - 530 pages
...Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England, untill such time that all Acts which tend to enslave this our Native Country shall be repealed.' The other figures are not close around the table, and are emptying tea-caddies or looking on. A child...
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The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, Volumes 1-2

Martha Helen Haywood, Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Mary Hilliard Hinton - 1901 - 704 pages
...conform to that Pernicious Custom of Drinking tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England, until such time...enslave this our Native Country shall be repealed.' The other figures are not close around the table, and are emptying tea-caddies or looking on. A child...
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Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American Republics

Ann Fairfax Withington - 1996 - 301 pages
...Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote the wear of any Manufacture from England untill such time that all Acts which tend to Enslave this our Native Country shall be Repealed." At the left, a woman dumps tea from a caddy into the hat of a man standing in the doorway. At the bottom...
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Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era

Linda Grant De Pauw - 1975 - 244 pages
...determination to do so." They vowed to give up the "Pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea" and also not to "promote the wear of any Manufacture from England...Enslave this our native Country shall be repealed." The English, who did not encourage political activity by ladies, found the notion of a women's convention...
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 31

1907 - 942 pages
...the aforesaid ladies, will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England, until such time as all acts which tend to enslave this, our native country, shall be repealed.' The other figures are not close around the table and are emptying tea caddies or looking on. A dog...
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More Colonial Women: 25 Pioneers of Early America

Carole Chandler Waldrup - 2004 - 194 pages
...conform to ye pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea, or that we, the aforesaid Ladyes, will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England, until such time...enslave this our Native Country shall be repealed. Most all of the guests signed, including Penelope. The women did not throw tea in the ocean as the...
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Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1900

David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...that Pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote [the] wearing of any Manufacture from England until! such time that...Enslave this our Native Country shall be repealed." No political innocents, women in large weaving and spinning groups vigorously denied that they wasted...
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