Griffin's Wharf,
at which lay moored on Dec. 16, 1773, three British ships with cargoes of tea.
To defeat King George's trivial but tyrranical tax of three pence a pound,
about ninety citizens of Boston, partly disguised as Indians, boarded the ships,
threw the cargoes, three hundred and forty two chests, in all, into the sea,
and made the world ring with the patriotic exploit of the
Boston Tea Party
"No! Ne'er was mingled such a draught
in palace, hall, or arbor,
as freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed
that night in Boston Harbor."
