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It wasn't until about 1683 that Americans discovered coffee. New York, known as New Amsterdam at the time, was a tea totaling city, still borrowing the afternoon tea habits of their English brothers. One of the first recorded coffee drinkers was William Penn, who, once having settled in his Pennsylvania Colony, hired a New York importer to secure a stash of coffee for his personal use.
Strangely enough, this trend toward coffee in America can be largely attributed to tea. In 1773, our Bostonian ancestors hosted the Boston Tea Party, proclaiming freedom from colonists and selected coffee as the patriotic beverage of choice.
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