Nathaniel Frothingham was a coachmaker from Charlestown, Massachusetts who worked with his father in and around Boston all his life, and lived at No. 5 West St.
In 1773, he was named a member of the Charlestown Committee of Correspondence to confer with other towns on the matter of East India Company tea in America. Frothingham was among the names of Boston Tea Party participants mentioned in Joshua Wyeth’s famous personal account of the event, published in 1826. Descendants of Nathaniel Frothingham have claimed that he became a Lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Hopkins Company of Minute Men, but no records to support the claim have been found. Frothingham maintained a successful coach-making business after the Revolutionary War and built carriages for John and Abigail Adams, as well as John Hancock.
Nathaniel Frothingham died on January 22, 1825, in Boston, Massachusetts, and is buried in Boston’s Copp’s Hill Burying Ground.
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