Note 15 — INTRODUCTION.
Reading edition
Probably the following handbill is referred to:
"Brethren and Fellow Citizens!
You may depend that those odious miscreants and detestable tools to ministry and government, the Tea Consignees, (those traitors to their country—butchers—who have done and are doing everything to murder and destroy all that shall stand in the way of their private interest,) are determined to come (from the castle) and reside again in the town of Boston! I therefore give you this early notice that you may hold yourselves in readiness on the shortest warning, to give them such a reception as such vile ingrates deserve.
(Signed), Joyce, Junior,
Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering.
☞ If any person shall be so hardy as to tear this down, he may expect my severest resentment.
J., Jun."