Thomas Dana Jr.

(March 3, 1753 – June 30, 1787) 

Thomas Dana, Jr., a mason and bricklayer from Roxbury, Massachusetts, would join his father, Thomas Dana, and his future brother-in-law, Thomas Williams, in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773.  

On the way home after the “destruction of the tea”, Dana, Jr., and Williams refused to sack the home of a Tory in Roxbury, considering it not to be a part of the night’s activities.  

It is believed that Dana served as a private in the Revolutionary War, under the command of Lieutenant James Morton at Nantasket, Massachusetts, in June 1776. There, he spent three days helping to drive British ships from Boston Harbor. 

In 1777, Thomas Dana, Jr. married Hannah Williams (sister of Thomas Williams) on the same day that Thomas Williams married Dana’s sister, Susannah.  

Thomas Dana, Jr., died on June 30, 1787, in Utica, New York. He is buried in the New Hartford Burial Ground in New Hartford, New York.