s a member of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; was an ardent democrat, and
late in life wore a cocked hat, and styled himself "general."

JOSEPH EAYRES

Was one of the volunteer guard on the "Dartmouth" on the night of
November 30, 1773. He was a housewright in Essex Street, in 1789.

---- ECKLEY,

A barber, was informed against for his participation in the destruction
of the tea, and committed to prison. The Sons of Liberty supported him
while in confinement, and also provided for his family. He was finally
liberated, and the person who informed against him was tarred and
feathered, and paraded through the town with labels on his breast and
back bearing his name, and the word "informer" in large letters.

WILLIAM ETHERIDGE,

Who was a mason, while engaged in throwing the tea overboard, was
recognized by his apprentice, Samuel Sprague.

SAMUEL FENNO,

A housewright, was born in Boston, in 1745, and died in 1806. He lived
in a large wooden house on Tremont Street, near Hollis Street, and was
a near neighbor of Crane, Lovering and the Bradlees. He was a man of
unusual reticence, but noted for courage and patriotism. From 1773 till
his death, he kept a vow never to drink tea. In 1797 he married Mary,
the sister of Joseph Hiller, the first collector of the port of Salem,
and was the father of Captain John Fenno, a pioneer in the China trade.

CAPTAIN SAMUEL FOSTER,

Of Roxbury, was a sergeant in Captain Moses Whiting's minute company, at
Lexington, and as a captain in Greaton's regiment, served at
Ticonderoga, and in other campaigns of the Revolutionary war.

NATHANIEL FROTHINGHAM,

A coachmaker, at No. 5 West Street, died January 22, 1825; aged
seventy-nine.

[Illustration: Signature, Nathaniel Frothingham]

JOHN GAMMELL

Was of Scotch descent, his father bearing the same name, having come to
Boston about the year 1740. The son was born in Boston, in 1749, and
died there in 1827. His trade was that of a carpenter, in which capacity
he served seven years in the construction department of the
Revolutionary army. He was a participant in the Stamp Act riots, and in
the destruction of the tea, and in his later years used to describe the
latter affair, with great minuteness, in the presence of his family, and
on the anniversary of the day would act over again the part he then
performed. He married Margaret Urann, by whom he had fifteen children.
As the initials J and T were in old ti