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Show TORIES JFvmfere mcZheie When Greenwich Burned Up British Tea GREENWICH, N. J. A counterpart counter-part of the famous Ronton tea party, tlie Greenwich tea burning, burn-ing, an open defiance of the IfrltlHh government nfter the first Continental Con-tinental congress In Philadelphia, to proleKt against the Mtump tax, liu Just hud Its hundred and fiftieth anniversary, anniver-sary, Although the teu burning here occurred oc-curred almost a year after the tea was dumped Into Uoston harbor, the Greenwich Green-wich event Is regarded of more than passing Import. Unable to unload Us cargo at Philadelphia, the British brig Oreyhound docked at Greenwich, then an Important port of commerce In the West Jersey province. Villagers were nruuMod when they learned that the tea had been secretly unloaded and placed In a warehouse on the market square. A meeting of the people of the county of Cumberland appointed a general gen-eral committee of US to look into It. In the dead of night a party of Whigs disguised as Indians broke into the warehouse. They dragged the cases of tea to an open space In the square, A torch was applied and thus was lighted the first beacon in the uprising up-rising of the colonies. In less than five months the first 'volley of the Kev-olutlonury Kev-olutlonury war was fired at Concord, Founded late In the Seventeenth century, Greenwich carried on active commerce with the West Indies. In 1701 it was named by the West Jersey proprietors as one of the two ports of the province, the other being Burlington. Burling-ton. With the rapid development of the port of Philadelphia, the glory of. Greenwich soon faded. In what was formerly the market square, close to the actuul site of the tea burning, now stands an attractive monument of granite, dedicated on September 80, liMKS. by citizens of this region to the colonists who were so bold as to defy the crown and parliament parlia-ment by their midnight raid. On the face of the monument, beneath a bronze plate In bus relief showing figures fig-ures In Indian costume casting cases of tea upon a fire, Is this inscription : In Honor of the Patriots of Cumberland County, N. J., Who on the Evening of Dec. 22, 1774, Burned British Tea Near This Site. Family names still prominent in this region are included in the list of patriotic patri-otic tea burners, which Is also given upon the monument as follows: Kbe-nezer Kbe-nezer Elmer, Timothy Elmer. James Ewlng, Joel Flthlan, Philip V. Fithlan, Lewis Howell, James B. Hunt, John Hunt, Andrew Hunter, Jr.. Joel Miller, Alex. Moore, Jr., Ephralm Newcomb, Silas Newcomb, Clurence Parvln, David Da-vid I'lerson, Henry Seeley, Jowlah See-ley, See-ley, Abraham Sheppurd, Henry Stacks, Silas Whittaker "and others." |
