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Reenactment of the Burning of the Peggy Stewart
October 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
On October 19, 1774, Annapolis sparks Maryland’s active participation in the American Revolution when angry colonists take place in the burning of the Peggy Stewart in order to destroy the detestable weed tea. Annapolis then becomes the fiery scene of a budding nation clamoring for independence from Great Britain’s repressive taxation and tyranny.
On October 19, 2024, commemorate the Burning of the Peggy Stewart—also called the Annapolis Tea Party—250 years to the day after the shipping merchant, Anthony Stewart, a loyalist to the Crown, rowed out to the merchant brigantine he owned and set it ablaze at the insistence of an outraged mob.
Join the John Paul Jones Chapter and the Maryland SAR for a living history exhibition of the Burning of the Peggy Stewart on October 19, 2024, on the Severn River at Annapolis City Harbor.
