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Canada and the United States

Alfred F. Young. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. Boston, Mass.: Beacon. 1999. Pp. xvii, 262. $24.00.

George Robert Twelves Hewes was a man remarkable in his lifetime (1742–1840) for short stature, long life, and helping to destroy the East India Company's tea at Boston on the night of December 16, 1773. His stories of the latter episode made him a local celebrity in Otsego County, New York, where he was an honored guest at Fourth of July observances in the late 1820s. Eventually two writers, James Hawkes and Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, interviewed him and recounted his experiences in, respectively, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party (1834), and Traits of the Tea Party (1835). Their accounts in turn furnish Alfred F. Young with the basis for an eloquent meditation on the dynamics of revolution and remembrance in American history. 1

A poor cordwainer with a growing family, Hewes witnessed the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770), an event that turned him into a militant participant in crowd actions, including the Tea Party. During the war, he volunteered both as a short-term soldier and as a crew member on two privateers. Those voyages did not fetch the prize money he had hoped for, and he ended the war as poor as ever. Thereafter his family grew larger, but not his fortune. Still searching for prosperity in his mid-seventies, he moved to Richfield Springs, New York, about 1815; there he continued to make shoes and reminisce. . . .

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