[Diary entry: 21 May 1774]

21st. Dined at the Speakers & went up to Colo. Bassetts in the afternoon.

During this week, news reached Williamsburg of the passage of an act by the British Parliament closing the port of Boston on 1 June until it paid reparations for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party the previous December.

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Title: [Diary entry: 21 May 1774]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 21 May 1774

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 21 May 1774],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0004-0009-0021. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 250.]