Below is taken from the Boston Tea Party Website. We provided their link below for further study.
Participants in the Boston Tea Party
December 16th, 1773
It is estimated that hundreds took part in the Boston Tea Party. For fear of punishment, many participants of the Boston Tea Party remained anonymous for many years after the event. To date it is known that 116 people are documented to have participated. Not all of the participants of the Boston Tea Party are known; many carried the secret of their participation to their graves. The participants were made up of males from all walks of colonial society. Many were from Boston or the surrounding area, but some participants are documented to have come from as far away as Worcester in central Massachusetts and Maine. The vast majority was of English descent, but men of Irish, Scottish, French, Portuguese, and African ancestry were documented to have also participated. The participants were of all ages, but the majority of the documented participants was under the age of forty. Sixteen participants were teenagers, and only nine men were above the age of forty. Many of the Boston Tea Party participants fled Boston immediately after the destruction of the tea to avoid arrest. Thousands witnessed the event, and the implication and impact of this action were enormous ultimately leading to the start of the American Revolution. Referenced by https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/participants-in-the-boston-tea-party
There are only 116 people identified to have participated in the Boston Tea Party, most remained anonymous. Of those 116, here are the names of Ancestral Grandfathers that participated. I am working on verifying other names from the list. Here is what I have so far.
Thomas Spear
Thomas Spear lived on Orange Street in 1789. He was one of those whom Peter Mackintosh saw run into a blacksmith’s shop to blacken their faces with soot. Thomas died in 1789.
John Randall
John Randall was born in Watertown, Massachusetts October 2nd, 1750.
Henry Bass
Henry Bass was a successful Bostonian merchant, born in 1739, who participated in the Boston Tea party. He later died in 1813 and is buried in the Granary Burying Ground outside Boston.
Thomas Bolter
Thomas Bolter was born on April 23rd, 1735 in Boston, Massachusetts and was a participant in the Boston Tea Party. Bolter worked as a housewright [working for John Crane], a fireman, and a retailer. After the tea protest, Bolton moved to Springfield where he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, under Major Joseph Eayer, as an artillery officer and rose to the rank of Captain in the regiment of Colonel Flowers. He died in Boston, August 26th, 1811 and is buried with his wife, Mary Goddard, in the Central Burying Ground in Boston, Tomb 41.
John Brown
John Brown was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and also entered the Revolutionary Army. He later died in 1782. His burial location is unknown.
Thomas Porter
Little is known about Thomas Porter aside from his role in the Boston Tea Party; except that he was a prominent merchant of Boston and later died in Alexandria, Virginia in June of 1800.
Thomas Spear
Thomas Spear lived on Orange Street in 1789. He was one of those whom Peter Mackintosh saw run into a blacksmith’s shop to blacken their faces with soot. Thomas died in 1789.
Abraham Tower
Abraham Tower, born in 1752, was a master shipbuilder and fisherman. Tower maintained a fleet of fishing schooners and constructed several large buildings at the wharf site, located in Cohasset, for the maintenance of his vessels; his business lasted until the 1920s. In addition to his participation in the Boston Tea Party, Tower served in the Revolutionary Army and advanced to the rank of Sergeant.
Josiah Wheeler
Josiah Wheeler, born in 1743, was a housewright and participated in the famous Boston Tea Party. As for his service in the Revolutionary Army, he commanded a company of minutemen at the beginning of the revolution and superintended the erection of forts by General Washington’s order. He was also employed in building the State House of Boston. He later died in Boston in August of 1817 and is buried in the Central Burying Ground, Tomb 109.
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