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A Certain Sloop Called the Liberty: Charles Townsend, John Hancock and the Boston Madeira Party
Old South Meeting House 310 Washington St, BostonOn June 10, 1768 the King's Commissioners of Customs seized John Hancock's sloop Liberty and its smuggled cargo of Madeira wine. Already agitated by the imposition of the hated Townshend […]