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1765 to 1769 Thomas Boylston Buys Swivel Guns from Fitch Poole + Richard Clarke!

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1765 to 1769 Thomas Boylston Buys Swivel Guns from Fitch Poole + Richard Clarke!
Colonial America
1765-1769 Fitch Poole & Richard Clarke Boston Invoice Document For “Swivel Guns” and 12 Sets of “Fire Arms” Poole and Clarke Were Consignees of the “The Boston Tea Party” Tea Which Was Thrown Into Boston Harbor !
October 1765 to June 8, 1769 French & Indian War Dated, Manuscript Document Invoice Titled, “Mr. Thomas Boylston, his Acct. with Pool & Clarke,” with later “Boston Tea Party” Connection, Choice Very Fine.
This original Manuscript Document Signed, “Thomas Boylston” (1721-1798), measuring 8” x 13” has a final order date of 1769, where the firm of Fitch Poole and Richard Clarke has sold Thomas Boylston one pair of Swivel Guns and 12 Sets of Fire Arms, but has agreed to make payment in molasses. Document is boldly written on very clean, fine quality laid period paper with a “G R” and Crown watermark, some light folds and is in overall very fine condition.

Richard Clarke of the firm Poole and Clarke, was a Boston Merchant and Loyalist who became one of the most prominent merchants in Boston. His firm at the time of the American Revolution including his two sons, Jonathan and Isaac, under the name of Richard Clarke & Sons. Jonathan was in London in 1773 and Richard Clarke & Sons were named as factors for the Honorable East India Company and were among the consignees of the Tea which was thrown into Boston Harbor in December of that year, in the Boston Tea Party.

Also, as prominent Boston Merchants, the Boylstons inevitably joined in the growing dispute over Parliamentary regulation and taxation of American commerce and goods. Both John Boylston and Thomas Boylston supported the Crown in the dispute and, as a result, left Boston for England following the outbreak of hostilities. Both re-established their trading houses, in England. Upon his death in 1798, there was published, “to the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston ... are hereby notified to meet at Faneuil-Hall, on Wednesday, the 25th day of September ... to consider whether any and what measures shall be taken to carry into effect the will of the late Thomas Boylston, Esq. “