Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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The Treaty of Ihmld n
had
been signed in
J:ugu.aot
and Sir Henry
Pottinger
11'.1
coming to Canton on business connected with
it.
The COIII–
p~'1
factory. aa
it
.
a.
al1l'~'
called•••• an object of hatred to
the
Cantone
Ie,
and
had
8111'*1'
been ."ociated in their mind. with all
their
~rel'.1I'lth
the Enclilb.
lOT
leveral
~.
threat. had be,.
f:rt e13 uttered or
the
populace
,
hat
it
,
hould never be occupied again,
and inceQd.iary placard.
had
belln posted about
the
streeh.
call1ll&
upon
the bravet and villagerl, as well aa
the
citizen. themaalv,s, to rile,
dest:roy the factol7. and Ixterminate
the
foreign devil •• lhlt we bad
been exterUllnated .0 often OD paper,
that
little heed Tal paid to
then
threat..
On
the
7
th
of December, 1842•• large number of men
'
WaS
up
on
l1ber~
from two of
the
large shlps in lllenheim Reach.- I think
the
lort William and Buckinghpm.hir.. It was very easy to create a row
tn
Hog Lane between
the
half--drullken sailor. and the lIhopkeeper., e.pecially
••
the .ailor. were me.tly L&8car •• who are much more
rea~
to fight
~th
the tongue than to came to
~oie.
de fait.- They were .oon over_
come and drl1'en into the Creek factory. then unoccupied.
It
had then
got to be about 3 P.W. The.ob at once commenced their attack on the
cOlllpau,y" factory, and at it .... unoccupied, they 1'ery t.(Ion coooplated
their work ther..
.
it
our factory, the Dutch, .0 called, w.. only next
door, separated
by
a party wall,
it
wa. natural that they lIhould turn
their attention to us. Uncle Au,rulltine and I were we 1gbine:; tea. at the
'
ootae Hona, Wr. Dixwell tent for U8 and our little
f~ly
were .oon
reunited. Wr.Coolidge wa. at W8eao, and our force con.i,ted of Uncle
Augu,tine,
Mr,
Oixwell,
~.
Rumpaton, Robert. and
~.elf,
Qutlerre.
had
disappeared at the firtt ala.n:1 and wa. not found until IIIWlh later
,
ben
he wat unearthed from beneath a .ofa in one of the
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