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Burning of the Brig "Peggy Stewart"

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Near this spot, which was then the shore of the bay, the brig "Peggy Stewart" was burned by her owner, Anthony Stewart, on October 19, 1774, to pacify the indignation of citizens roused by the payment of duties on seventeen boxes of tea imported in the brig.
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