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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