Mary A. Jones's Diary Of The Edenton Tea Party
Dear diary, My name is Mary A. Jones, and I am one of the 51 women who rebelled by supporting the boycott of tea. Today is October 26, 1774, there have been so many arguments between the rich and poor over high tea taxes and laws. My family and I are not rich people, but we are well off and we know that the tea taxes are getting way too high! I can’t believe that it is “a three pence tax for a pound of tea”(Richardson)!The day of the Edenton Tea Party was like any other normal day. I was cooking over the fire for my children while their dad (my husband Henry D. Jones) was working at the blacksmith’s shop. My oldest daughter, Elizabeth, is a very smart and kind girl. She helps me take care of the other kids while I cook, clean, and harvest crops.
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She is one of the richest women in North Carolina. While there, Penelope asked me if I wanted to help her support the boycott and to assist her in rallying other women to help. I agreed to help her and I got almost 20 women to assist us with the boycott. I still couldn’t believe that this was happening in my town that I was raising my kids in! My mother and father sent me a letter a couple months ago telling me that people dressed up as Indians dumped tea all over the port of Boston, which is where I used to live and where I met my husband. Then I got a letter from my friend Anne, who lives in Great Britain, telling me how bad the tea taxes and cloth taxes are. My husband is usually gone for days on end so I never really had a chance to tell him about all these things going on down here with me and the other women. He is coming back today and I can’t wait to tell my husband what happened and what Penelope and I did. Many of the rich people think what we did was bad, but everyone else thinks what we did will make history. Everyone is going to know us as the women who boycotted the tea taxes in Edenton, North Carolina. Everyone can’t stop talking about what us women did yesterday. We are going to be famous like Paul Revere! Oh, my dear! My husband is home from work! After I told my husband all the things that had happened yesterday, he told me that he was proud of what we did and said he would never
She is one of the richest women in North Carolina. While there, Penelope asked me if I wanted to help her support the boycott and to assist her in rallying other women to help. I agreed to help her and I got almost 20 women to assist us with the boycott. I still couldn’t believe that this was happening in my town that I was raising my kids in! My mother and father sent me a letter a couple months ago telling me that people dressed up as Indians dumped tea all over the port of Boston, which is where I used to live and where I met my husband. Then I got a letter from my friend Anne, who lives in Great Britain, telling me how bad the tea taxes and cloth taxes are. My husband is usually gone for days on end so I never really had a chance to tell him about all these things going on down here with me and the other women. He is coming back today and I can’t wait to tell my husband what happened and what Penelope and I did. Many of the rich people think what we did was bad, but everyone else thinks what we did will make history. Everyone is going to know us as the women who boycotted the tea taxes in Edenton, North Carolina. Everyone can’t stop talking about what us women did yesterday. We are going to be famous like Paul Revere! Oh, my dear! My husband is home from work! After I told my husband all the things that had happened yesterday, he told me that he was proud of what we did and said he would never