Surrender Fields Bohea Commemorative 250 Year Tea Tin
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Surrender Fields Bohea Commemorative 250 Year Tea Tin
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UPC: 6510
Brand: York Tea Co.
Surrender Fields 250 Year Tea Party Commemorative Tea Tin
Celebrating 250 years since the boycott dumping of tea in the York River of Virginia, and the Boston Harbor.
This is 4 ounces of premium, organic Bohea black tea mixed with orange peal. This black tea blend originated in China and was traded to the East India Companies of the Dutch and British. Its smoky aroma and pine flavor comes from the tea's drying process. During the process the tea leaves are roasted above a pine fire.
Its the tea the colonists enjoyed and now you can too. Bohea tea, (pronounced “Boo-hee” was far and wide the "tea" import during colonial times. Among the Colonists, Its popularity made way for it name- bohea to became the slang term for tea.
Bohea is the tea that would have been enjoyed on the battlefields, and Washington himself as he sat by the fire at his camp in Yorktown.
As the tea that was shipped to the Colonies during the Tea Party, it's interesting trivia to know that on November 7, 1774, local residents boarded the British ship Virginia and dumped two half-chests of Bohea tea into the York River. The tea had been imported despite the boycott on English goods that the first Virginia Revolutionary Convention had authorized in August 1774.
At the Boston Harbor, the damage the Sons of Liberty caused by destroying 340 chests of Bohea tea, in today's money, was worth more than $1,700,000 dollars. The British East India Company reported £9,659 worth of damage caused by the Boston Tea Party. According to some modern estimates, the destroyed tea could have brewed 18,523,000 cups of tea!
Wassail and drink Bohea!
(Translated from Colonial English: Be of Good health and drink Tea!)
