[Rarebooks] FS: 1829 Revolutionary War Pension Ap. of Boston Tea Party Participant

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5.  [Boston Tea Party]  1829 Revolutionary War Pension Application by a 
Boston Tea Party Participant.

An interesting manuscript document, the application for a Revolutionary 
War pension by Benjamin Burton. “Benjamin Burton was born December 9th, 
1749 and participated in the Boston Tea Party; he was also one of the 
men who led the meeting at the Old South Meeting House before the tea 
protest actually began. He later enlisted in the Continental Army, and 
received the rank of Lieutenant in September of 1776 and the rank of 
Captain in Colonel Thurburn’s regiment in Rhode Island in 1777.

Burton was one of the patriots held prisoner along with General Peleg 
Wadsworth for three months in 1778 and when he escaped he was given the 
rank of Lieutenant Colonel in a Boston Militia. Benjamin married Hannah 
Church and together they had seven children. Burton died May 24, 1835 in 
Warren, Rhode Island” [Boston Tea Party Ship Museum].  Signed at the 
Court, Warren, Lincoln County Maine. Witnessed by Judge Samuel Smith, 
Attestation signed by Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk of the Court, with the 
embossed Court Seal.  Single sheet, used both sides. 8”x13”. Folds, 
minor soil.  [43275]  $600


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