Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)
[Illustration: GEORGE ROBERT TWELVES HUGHES.]
EDWARD C. HOWE,
Ropemaker, died in September, 1821, aged seventy-nine. E.C. Howe & Son
(Joseph) dissolved partnership August 1, 1800. Howe's rope-walk was one
of seven, on the west side of Pearl Street, all of which were burnt in
July, 1794.
JONATHAN HUNNEWELL,
The son of Richard, followed his father's trade, of a mason. He was born
in Boston, May 19, 1759; died in April, 1842. He was several times a
selectman of Boston, and member of both branches of the legislature; was
connected with many benevolent institutions, and was for nine years
president of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. He was
one of the principal agents in the establishment of the glass-works, in
Boston and Chelmsford, and its failure, in 1822, made him a poor man.
For many years he had a country residence at Newton, which was the seat
of a generous hospitality. The latter part of his life was passed in
seclusion, at Roxbury, where, in 1800, he married the widow Theoda
Davis. Jonathan, his brother, and Richard, his father, were also in the
tea party.
RICHARD HUNNEWELL,
A mason, member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association,
died in October, 1805. He resided in Essex Street; was an active Son of
Liberty, and was one of the volunteer guard on the "Dartmouth," on the
night of November 30, 1773. His two sons, fourteen and sixteen years of
age, were with him at the throwing overboard of the tea.
THOMAS HUNSTABLE,
Was born in 1753. He lived for many years on Brighton Street, and was a
Freemason.
COLONEL ABRAHAM HUNT,
Was born in Braintree, Mass., June 2, 1748; died December 5, 1793. He
was apprenticed, in 1763, to Edmund Quincy, who kept a wine-store, and
was afterwards connected with him in the trade. In 1789, his place of
business was in Middle (Hanover) Street, and his residence on Federal
Street. He served as lieutenant and adjutant at the siege of Boston; was
in the Ticonderoga campaign, remaining some years in the service, which
he quitted with the rank of captain. June 24, 1781, he was agent for the
privateer "Buccaneer," Captain Hoysted Hacker. For a time he was
inspector of the ports of Boston and Charlestown. In 1777, he became a
member of St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons. October 15, 1771, he married
Mary St. Leger. His orderly books for June and July, 1775, are in the
possession of his grandson, ---- Urann, Esq.
DANIEL INGERSOLL,
Housewright, formerly of Boston, died in Keene, N.H., October 17, 1829,
aged seventy-nine. He was a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, in 1782.
[Illustration: Signature, David Kinnison]
DAVID KINNISON,
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