Tea Party with the Peggy Stewart

Did you know that Annapolis had its own version of the Boston tea party?

The Hammond-Harwood House has the only object which survived the Annapolis tea party–a punch bowl–which the ship’s Captain Jackson was able to deliver to its intended owner, Lloyd Dulany.

Growing tension with English taxation through the Tea Act of 1773 led to a boycott of imported tea in the colonies. The brigantine Peggy Stewart, owned by the British Loyalist Anthony Stewart was carrying a shipment of tea, along with 53 indentured servants, which was in violation of the non-importation resolution. An Annapolis committee, that included Matthias Hammond, decided Anthony Stewart should burn the vessel with tea aboard. Stewart rowed out to Windmill Point on October 19, 1774 and set fire to the ship.

Come to the Hammond-Harwood House to see this special punch bowl and sample “Mrs. Handy’s Tea Punch” (non-alcoholic) from the original Maryland’s Way cookbook.