merchant, doing business at 28 State Street, and was one of the
volunteer guard on the "Dartmouth." He was the first inspector of beef
and pork, appointed by the State of Massachusetts, and was a man of
sound judgment and inflexible integrity. He became a member of the
Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew in 1779, and master in 1782. He died July
26, 1801.

COLONEL BENJAMIN BURTON

Was born in the old Burton House, Thomaston, Maine, December 9, 1749,
and died in Warren, Maine, May 23, 1835. Happening to be in Boston on a
visit on the memorable 16th of December, 1773, he went with the crowd to
the Old South Meeting House, and at the close of the meeting, heard the
cry "Tea party! tea party!" Joining the party that boarded the
tea-ships, he labored with all his might in throwing the tea into the
water. It being about low tide, the tea rested on the bottom, and when
the tide rose it floated, and was lodged by the surf along the shore. He
was subsequently an officer in the Revolutionary army; was present at
the surrender of Burgoyne, and himself fell into the hands of the enemy,
in February, 1781, sharing in the imprisonment of General Peleg
Wadsworth, at Castine, and in the daring escape of that officer. After
the war, he was eight years a magistrate, and was often a member of the
legislature.

NICHOLAS CAMPBELL

A native of the Island of Malta, died in Warren, R.I., July 23, 1829;
aged ninety-seven. He came to this country just previous to the
Revolution, during a great part of which he was employed in the marine
service, and by many deeds of noble daring, aided the cause of liberty,
and evinced his attachment to his adopted country. He had been a
resident of Warren fifty-four years.

THOMAS CHASE,

One of the most active of the "Sons of Liberty," was a distiller, near
the famous Liberty Tree, at the junction of Orange, Essex and Newbury
Streets. In the office of Chase & Speakman the meetings of the committee
of the "Sons" were held, of one of which John Adams has left an account.
Chase was one of those who prepared and suspended the effigies of Bute
and Oliver from Liberty Tree, on August 14, 1765. He was one of the
volunteer guard on the "Dartmouth," on the night of November 29, 1773;
was a member of the "Anti-Stamp Fire Society," formed soon after the
passage of the Stamp Act, in 1765, and joined St. Andrew's Lodge of
Freemasons in 1769.

[Illustration: Signature, Thomas Chase]

BENJAMIN CLARKE

Was a coope