Letter: Mr. James McManus, Merchant from H. W. Peterson, 1823
A gentleman squires young ladies around the State Capitol.
Steele, Ephraim
Tea and Tea Drinking in the 18th Century
In January 1773, merchant Samuel Wharton wrote the following observations about tea drinking in America.
"The use of teas, and of the black sort in particular, is so common and fashionable in America that it is usually drank twice a day, even by the Frontier inhabitants of all the colonies...