Hi my name is Ebenezer Stevens; I was born August 11, 1751 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. I joined the United States Army and became a professional artillerist. I served under the command of Adino Paddock, and I was proud to serve with the likes of Paul Revere and Thomas Crafts. Over time I rose to the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery. I was also a member of the Sons of Liberty. At the time of the Boston Tea Party I was 22 years old and I want to share with you my involvement in the Boston Tea Party in 1773. This was a significant event in the history of this great country that would forever change the leadership of the United States and I was proud to be a part of it. I will be sharing with you my recollection of the events that happened during…show more content… At the head of the wharf [Griffin’s wharf] we met the detachment of our company on guard, who joined us.” (J.L. Bell, 2006)
I joined a party of my fellow brothers and went onto the vessel. None of my fellow brothers were dressed as Native Americans or painted as Native Americans; some stopped at a paint shop on the way and daubed their faces with paint. (J.L. Bell, 2006)
Much to my surprise the newspapers in the following weeks made great mention of the “Mohawk” disguises. We believe this was done to hide the identity of who had really dumped all the tea; this would forever be in the history books, even though none of us were disguised this way!
Once on the vessel, I, along with the others began bringing the boxes of Tea, approximately 114 boxes, onto the deck, once all were on the deck we began using an axe to break the boxes open, we found this to be very difficult. After two to three hours we had all the boxes of tea split open and thrown over the side of the vessel into the water. In total between the three ships we threw over 300 crates of The East India Companies tea into the water, it was a proud
