An excerpt from Traits of the Tea Party, a memoir of George Hewes, a Tea Party participant, 1835.

George Robert Twelves Hewes was among the last surviving participants of the Boston Tea Party and Revolutionary War. Most participants kept their roles in the Tea Party secret for many years. This biography, by “a Bostonian,” recounts Hewes’ upbringing and details his experience of the Revolution including the night of the Tea Party.

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Excerpts from “Traits of the tea party: being a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, one of the last of its survivors; with a history of that transaction; reminiscences of the massacre, and the siege, and other stories of old times,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/91911f1c32207960397776ac48702821.
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Courtesy of University of California via HathiTrust.

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