Greenwich Tea Party

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The Greenwich Tea Party was an incident that took place on December 22, 1774, during the American Revolution, in what is now Greenwich Township, a small community in Cumberland County, New Jersey on the Cohansey River, in which a load of tea meant to be sent overland into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was torched in the night by a group of 40 Patriots dressed as Native Americans.

In 1908, the Cumberland County Historical Society erected a monument to mark the event, which is located at Main Street at Market Square in Greenwich Township.^[1]

The event took place a year after the Boston Tea Party.

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One member of the Greenwich Tea Party was Richard Howell, who would become the third governor of New Jersey and whose granddaughter, Varina Howell, would marry Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy.

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• Greenwich Tea Burning: 1774
• Site of the Greenwich Tea Burning Party
• The Burning of the Tea at Cohansey.