Peter Edes's father Benjamin was co-owner, with John Gill, of the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, beginning in 1755. The Edes and Gill print shop became a gathering place for Bostonians opposed to British rule, and the Boston Gazette published articles by John Adams, James Otis, John Hancock, Joseph Warren, Samuel Adams, and other patriots. In 1773, when Peter was seventeen, a number of Boston residents met at the Edes home to change into Indian costumes before dumping tea into Boston Harbor in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. (The China punch bowl used to serve punch to the party-goers remained in the Edes family until 1871 when it was given to the Massachusetts Historical Society.) Much more at website below. http://www.bairnet.org/histgenealogy/Edes/default.htm