reet, in 1789.
Thomas Knox, Jr., a branch pilot, died in Charlestown,
Mass., in April, 1817; aged 75. He joined the Masonic Lodge
of St. Andrew in 1764. In 1789 his residence was on Friend
Street.
Joseph Lovering was a tallow chandler. He lived on the
corner of Hollis and Tremont Streets, opposite Crane and the
Bradlees. Joseph Lovering, Jr., held the light by which
Crane and others disguised themselves in Crane's carpenter's
shop, on the evening of December 16. Lovering was a
prominent member of the Charitable Mechanic Association, was
many years a selectman and a fireward under the old town
government of Boston, and was also a member of the first
Board of Aldermen, under Mayor Phillips. He followed his
father's business, and was some years a partner in the firm
of J. Lovering & Sons.
Joshua Pico, a cooper, on Sheaffe Street, residing on Clarke
Street; died in January, 1807.
Joseph Pierce, Jr., was a merchant, at 58 Cornhill, in 1799.
Nicholas Pierce was a bricklayer, on Back (Salem) Street, in
1800.
John Rice was deputy-collector at Boston, 1789.
Benjamin Stevens was a tailor, at 33 Marlboro' Street, in
1789.
Jonathan Stodder was a member of St. Andrew's Lodge of
Freemasons, in 1779.
Thomas Tileston, born September 21, 1735, was a carpenter on
Purchase Street, in 1789. His father, Onesiphorous Tileston,
also a housewright and a man of wealth, was captain of the
Artillery Company in 1762.
John Winthrop resided in Cambridge Street, and died February
12, 1800; aged 53.
The power and influence of the Boston committee of correspondence, which
played so important a part in the tea affair, can best be estimated by a
glance at the list of names of its members. They were, Samuel Adams,
James Otis, Joseph Warren, William Molineux, Dr. Benjamin Church,
William Dennie, William and Joseph Greenleaf, Dr. Thomas Young, William
Powell, Nathaniel Appleton, Oliver Wendell, Josiah Quincy, Jr., John
Sweetser, Richard Boynton, John Bradford, William Mackay, Nathaniel
Barber, Caleb Davis, Alexander Hill, and Robert Pierpont.
After the dissolution of the meeting of November 29, the committee met,
and called on the committees from other towns to join them on all
necessary occasions. Besides sending accounts of these events to all the
towns, they also wrote to the committees of Rhode Island,
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