American Tempest

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Authors: Harlow Giles Unger
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    Thomas Urann. Ship joiner, and surveyor of boards (forest lumber), Freemason.
    Josiah Wheeler, 30. House builder.
    Joshua Wyeth, 15. Served in Revolutionary army.
    Dr. Thomas Young, physician, early follower of Samuel Adams. Became Samuel Adams’s personal physician; was army surgeon in Revolutionary War.
    The families and descendants claim that the following men participated in the Boston Tea Party:
    Nathaniel Barber, 45. Merchant, insurance sales, Freemason.
    Samuel Bernard, 26. Major in the Revolutionary War.
    Henry Bass, 34. Merchant.
    Edward Bates.
    David Bradlee, 31. One of four Bradlee brothers; no other facts available on any of them.
    Josiah Bradlee, 19.
    Nathaniel Bradlee, 27.
    Thomas Bradlee, 29.
    Seth Ingersoll Brown, 23. House carpenter; wounded at Bunker Hill; fought during the rest of the war.
    Stephen Bruce. Merchant, Freemason.
    Benjamin Burton, 24. Officer in Revolutionary War; magistrate and state legislator post-war.
    George Carleton.
    John Cochran, 23.
    Gilbert Colesworthy, 29.
    Gershom Collier.
    James Foster Condy. Bookseller.
    Samuel Cooper, 18. Second lieutenant in artillery; later, quartermaster.
    Thomas Dana, Jr.
    Robert Davis, 26. Merchant, importer of groceries, wines, liquors; Freemason; artillery officer in war.
    Joseph Eaton. Hatter, fought in artillery during the war.
    â€”———Eckley. Barber. Jailed after informer reported him to British.
    William Etheridge. Mason.
    Samuel Fenno. Housewright.
    Samuel Foster. Minuteman at Lexington; captain during Revolutionary War.
    John Fulton.
    Samuel Hammond, 24. Farmer.
    John Hicks, 18. Killed near Lexington.
    Samuel Hobbs, 23. Farmer, tanner, leather worker.
    Thomas Hunstsble, 20.
    Abraham Hunt, 25. Wine-shop keeper, Freemason. Lieutenant, then captain during war.
    David Kinnison, 27. Farmer; fought in Revolutionary War, War of 1812.
    Amos Lincoln. 20. Housewright; Freemason; fought at Bunker Hill; served as artillery captain during war; supervised woodwork of Massachusetts State House; married a daughter of Paul Revere.
    Thomas Machin, 29. Engineer, canal design and construction; surveyor. Wounded at Bunker Hill; served as lieutenant in artillery during war; laid out fortifications for defense of Boston and Boston Harbor.
    Archibald MacNeil, 23.
    John May, 25. Colonel in the Revolutionary War, Boston selectman and fire warden.
    â€”—Mead.
    Anthony Morse. Lieutenant in Revolutionary War.
    Joseph Mountford, 23. Cooper.
    Eliphalet Newell. Freemason.
    Joseph Pearse Palmer. Merchant of hardware, West Indian goods. Brigade major, then quartermaster-general in Revolutionary War.
    Jonathan Parker. Helped capture cannon from gunhouse.
    John Peters, 41. Born in Portugal; fought at Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown. Moved to Philadelphia after war.
    Samuel Pitts, 28. Merchant, Corps of Cadets.
    Henry Prentiss, 24. Captain in artillery, then sea captain, then Boston merchant. John Randall, 23.
    Joseph Roby.
    Robert Sessions, 21. Town official, South Wilbraham.
    Phineas Stearns, 37. Farmer, blacksmith. Fought in French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.
    Elisha Story, 30. Surgeon. Fought at Bunker Hill; served as doctor at Long Island, White Plains, and Trenton. Helped capture Boston cannons.
    James Swan, 19. Merchant, politician, soldier, author.
    John Truman.
    Isaac Williams.
    David Williams.
    Jeremiah Williams, blacksmith.
    Thomas Williams, 19. Minuteman at Lexington.
    Nathaniel Willis, 18. Printer, publisher of Independent Chronicle .

Bibliography
    Abbot, W. W., and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series: 1748–August 1755 . 10 vols. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983–1995.
    Abbot, W. W., Dorothy Twohig, and Philander D. Chase, eds. The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, June 1775–April 1778 . 14 vols. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1984–2004 [in progress].
    Adair, Douglas, and John A. Schutz, eds. Peter

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