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Noah Campbell

Economics

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Boston Tea Party

Setting: 1770 Boston Massachusetts

Mark

Bob

Samuel (eyewitness)

John (eyewitness)

George​ (eyewitness)
Scene 1
(Samuel, John, George, and Bob arrived at Mark’s house and went to the basement to talk
about the town meeting they heard was going to happen on december 16th at the Old South
Meeting House corner of Main and Milk Street)
Mark
Guys did you hear what going to happen.
Bob
Yeah, it looks this ship parking at the docs is causing a lot of trouble with all that tea on board.
George
Yeah heard about that going to go to the meeting say.
Samuel
I'm going to go too after all I need to go see what's going to happen with my own eyes
John
I don't think I'm going.I hear some crazy stuff might be going down and I wanna stay on the safe
side. Plus I still like tea and to give it up like that is just crazy talk.
Mark
I knew it your to scared. Well you need to know how to man up.
John
I don't know what you're talking about l’m more of a man than you can ever be.
Bob
Can you two just shut up now.
John
Look I’m late I gotta go home now.
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Bob, Samuel, George

Yeah me too.
(John, George,Bob, and Samuel leave Mark’s house and headed home.)
End of scene1
Scene2
(December 16th before the meeting at the Old South Meeting House corner of Main and Milk
Street Samuel and others tried Every effort was made to send these ships back but without
success and it was soon evident that the tea would be landed unless some active measures
were adopted by the citizens to prevent it. At the meeting house)
Random man
WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE SHIPS NOW!
Young women
Agreed that ship needs to be moved or that tea destroyed and we need to act on that now.
Crowd
Yeah let’s go.
Undercover British officers(yelling)
FIRE, FIRE! RUN!
(As the alarm sounds Cooper rises and in a loud voice told the citizens that there was no fire to
be apprehended but the fire of the British and begged them to keep their plaices.Immediately
after a detach’t of about 20 men disguised as Indians was seen to approach in single file by the
west door of the Church. They marched with silent steps down the isle and so passed by the
south door brandishing their tommahaws in that direction. The appearance of these men
created some sensation. No one appeared to expect their arrival and the object of their visit
seemed wholly inexplicable.)
End of scene2
Scene3
(John sees a bunch of people painted faces and tomahawks marching to the Griffin's wharf,
where the ship vessels lay.)
John
My tea I need to finish it then see what's going on.
(John sees George marching with the people then follows.)
John
George what are you all going to do.
George
We're going to destroy all the tea on the ships now.
(The people broke off into 3 groups for the 3 vessels and they started to throw the tea
overboard)
John
Hey who's that collecting the tea inside of his Coat?
Samuel
Hey you over there . What are you doing.
John
Samuel where'd you come from.
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(George interrupts them)

George
Is that Captain O'Connor? Get him!
(George seized him by the skirt of his coat, and in attempting to pull him back, I tore it off; but,
springing forward, by a rapid effort he made his escape. He had, however, to run a gauntlet
through the crowd upon the wharf nine each one, as he passed, giving him a kick or a stroke.)
George
Damn I almost had him.
Samuel
Hey there's another one.
(It was a tall, aged man who wore a large cocked hat and white wig. He had sleightly slipped a
little into his pocket,they seized him.Taking his hat and wig from his head, threw them, together
with the tea he took into the water. In consideration of his age, he was permitted to escape, with
now and then a slight kick. The next morning George and some others were by ​Griffin's wharf.)
George
Hey there's more tea in the water you need to destroy before they Salvage as much as they can
let's go.
( George some soldiers and citizens function row boats and use the oars and paddles to beat it
so thoroughly drenched it could not be Salvaged.)
End of scene 3