Chestertown Tea Party

Painting by Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1896, depicting the burning of the *Peggy Stewart*, known as the *Annapolis Tea Party*.

The Chestertown Tea Party was a protest against British excise duties which, according to local legend,^[1] took place in May 1774 in Chestertown, Maryland as a response to the British Tea Act. Chestertown tradition holds that, following the example of the more famous Boston Tea Party, colonial patriots boarded the brigantine Geddes in broad daylight and threw its cargo of tea into the Chester River. The event is celebrated each Memorial Day weekend with a festival and historic reenactment called the Chestertown Tea Party Festival.^[2]

^ Goodheart, Adam, Tea & Fantasy, The American Scholar Vol 74, 21–34
^ Buescher, John. "Are There Instances of Raids Similar to the Boston Tea Party?" Teachinghistory.org, accessed September 24, 2011.

[1] Goodheart, Adam, Tea & Fantasy, The American Scholar Vol 74, 21–34

[2] Buescher, John. "Are There Instances of Raids Similar to the Boston Tea Party?" Teachinghistory.org, accessed September 24, 2011.

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