Meeting of the Inhabitants of Norfolk, Virginia

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In consequence of letters from the Committees of Correspondence, for St˙ Mary' s and Charles Counties, in Maryland, and from the Burgesses of Elizabeth City County, in this Colony, with information of the arrival of nine chests of tea, on board the brigantine Mary and Jane, Captain Chapman, consigned to some gentlemen of this town, a meeting of the inhabitants was requested, and accordingly held, at the Court House, on the 22d of August, 1774, when it was

Unanimously Resolved, That the teas now on board the brigantine Mary and Jane, and consigned to Neil Jamieson and Company, George and John Bowness, and John Lawrence and Company, being subject to the payment of duties imposed by an Act of the British Parliament, ought to be sent back, and not suffered to be landed; and therefore,

Ordered, That Captain Abyvon, Mr˙ Bousch, Captain Loyall, Mr˙ Richard Taylor, and Captain Selden, be a Committee to wait upon those gentlemen, to know whether they will comply with the above Resolution; and that they report their several answers.

The Committee accordingly waited on those gentlemen, and made the following return in writing:

"GENTLEMEN: We, your Committee, agreeable to your Resolve, have waited on the within mentioned Neil Jamieson and Company, George and John Bowness, and John Lawrence and Company, owners of the tea now on board the brigantine Mary and Jane, and acquainted them with your Resolution, who severally and respectively answered, that they were willing that the tea should be sent back.

"Certified under our hands this 22d day of August, 1774.

GEORGE ABYVON,
RICHARD TAYLOR,
SAMUEL BOUSCH,
PAUL LOYALL,
JOHN SELDEN.

Which return being read and heard, it was

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Unanimously Voted, That the above Committee wait upon those gentlemen, owners of the tea, with the thanks of this meeting for their ready and cheerful acquiescence in the above Resolution.

WILLIAM DAVIES, Clerk.