Adams Papers

1774. Tuesday March 8.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

1774. Tuesday March 8.

Last Night 28 Chests and an half of Tea were drowned.1

1On orders, according to the Boston Gazette, 14 March, of “His Majesty OKNOOKORTUNKOGOG King of the Narranganset Tribe of Indians,” whose tribesmen “are now returned to Naragansett to make Report of their doings to his Majesty, who we hear is determined to honour them with Commissions for the Peace.”

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