Sculpted in 1905 by foundryman Frank Baldwin, the Edenton Tea Pot memorializes the patriotism and bravery associated with the Edenton Tea Party. In 1774, 51 Edenton women signed a petition to King George declaring, "As we cannot be indifferent on any occasion that appears nearly to affect the Peace and Happiness of our Country." In 1775, the Edenton Tea Party resolution with its signers appeared in the London Packet, Morning Chronical and London Advertiser, and Williamsburg's Virginia Gazette, and a satirical London cartoon, "A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, North Carolina," mocked the women for petitioning King George. In 1826, a USS North Carolina naval officer found the cartoon on the island of Minorca, gave it to his commodore, whose home port was Norfolk, Virginia, and it was published in the Norfolk Herald and Raleigh's North Carolina Star. In 1864, during the Civil War Battle of the Albemarle Sound between Union gun boats and a Confederate ironclad, Union sailor Frank Baldwin fought there. In 1905, Baldwin returned to visit the site of that battle, met Ed Hassell of Greenfield Farm overlooking the battle site, and after being invited there, met the owner, Frank Wood. Wood, discovering that Baldwin was a Connecticut foundry man, asked whether he could cast a replica of a silver teapot previously owned by Samuel Johnston, one of North Carolina's 18th-century governors, and Baldwin replied, "That is my business."