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George Robert Twelves Hewes (August 25, 1742 – November 5, 1840) was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer. Shortly before his death at the age of 98, Hewes was the subject of two biographies and much public commemoration.

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  • George Robert Twelves Hewes
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  • George Robert Twelves Hewes (August 25, 1742 – November 5, 1840) was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer. Shortly before his death at the age of 98, Hewes was the subject of two biographies and much public commemoration.
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  • Massachusetts militia - 1777, 1778, 1780, 1781
  • Privateer - 1776 , 1779
Birth Date
  • 1742-08-25(xsd:date)
Branch
  • Massachusetts militia, Privateer
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Name
  • George Robert Twelves Hewes
  • A retrospect of the Boston tea-party, with a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a survivor of the little band of patriots who drowned the tea in Boston harbour in 1773
  • Traits of the tea party : being a memoir of George R.T. Hewes, one of the last of its survivors
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  • A portrait of Hewes painted by Joseph G. Cole in 1835.
Birth Place
  • Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America
death date
  • 1840-11-05(xsd:date)
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  • Private
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  • retrospectofbost00hawk
  • traitsofteaparty00that
placeofburial
  • Grand Army of the Republic cemetery, Richfield Springs, New York
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  • George Robert Twelves Hewes (August 25, 1742 – November 5, 1840) was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer. Shortly before his death at the age of 98, Hewes was the subject of two biographies and much public commemoration.
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