Richard Howell (1754–1802) was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, and read law under Joseph Ellis in Burlington, N.J., prior to the Revolution. His pre-war political engagement included participation in the Greenwich Tea Burning of December 22, 1774 — one of the few documented acts of colonial protest outside of Boston — and service on local Committees of Correspondence in Cumberland County. Primary source letters from this period have not yet been digitized for this page; for context on his wartime service, see the Revolutionary War Correspondence section. ↩︎