r, in Ship Street, and in 1807 resided in Prince Street. He
became a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in
1801; of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1806, and died
in 1840.

[Illustration: Signature, Benjamin Clarke]

JOHN COCHRAN,

Born in East Boston, in 1750; died in Belfast, Maine, October 30, 1839.
The monument there erected to his memory bears the following
inscription: "He was one of the memorable tea party at Boston, December
16, 1773." His only surviving son, of the same name, now (1884) resides
at Belfast, at the age of eighty-three.

GILBERT COLESWORTHY,

Born in Boston, December 23, 1744, removed to Nantucket, Mass., and died
there in 1818.

GERSHOM COLLIER,

Of Chesterfield, Mass., died about the year 1825.

ADAM COLLSON

Was a leather dresser, near the "Great Trees," on Essex Street, as we
learn by his advertisement soon after the passage of the Stamp Act, in
which he says: "Understanding that many worthy tradesmen had agreed to
wear nothing but leather for their working habits, 'he offers' to dress
all sorts of skins suitable for that purpose." Collson was one of the
volunteer guard on the "Dartmouth" on the night of November 30, 1773,
and was said to be the person who, at the close of the meeting of
December 16th, at the Old South, shouted from the gallery, "Boston
harbor a tea-pot to-night!" He became a member of St. Andrew's Lodge of
Freemasons in 1763, and at the time of his death, February 16, 1798,
aged sixty, resided at 59 Marlboro' (Washington) Street. He was a member
of the "Long Room" Club.

JAMES FOSTER CONDY,

A bookseller in Boston before the Revolution, doing business in Union
Street, "opposite the cornfields," died in Haverhill, Mass., July 12,
1809.

SAMUEL COOPER

Was born in Boston, in 1755, and was living in Georgetown, D.C., in
1838. He was commissioned second lieutenant in Crane's artillery
regiment, February 1, 1777; quartermaster 14th May, 1778; lieutenant
and adjutant in 1783. He was inspector of pot and pearl ashes in New
York city and county, from 1808 to 1830. Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper,
of the United States army, afterwards a general in the Confederate army,
who died in 1877, was his son.

JOHN CRANE,

Colonel of the Massachusetts regiment of artillery in the Continental
line of the Revolutionary army, was born in Milton, Mass., 7th December,
1744, and died in Whiting, Maine, 21st August, 1805. His e