Robert Lash

(June 28, 1741 – October 4, 1818)

According to family history, “It is a family tradition that Robert Lash…was of the Tea Party. He was a friend of Paul Revere, lived near him, was a Mason, a patriot, and about thirty-five years of age.”

Aside from a brief notice concerning his military service in the Revolutionary War, the details of Robert Lash’s life remain obscure. He supposedly enlisted for two months as a matross in Captain Jonathan Stoddard’s company under fellow Boston Tea Party participant Colonel Thomas Crafts’ regiment from May 8 to July 8, 1777. Speculation that Lash and Crafts might have known each other from their night aboard a ship at Griffin’s Wharf, committing tea to Boston Harbor, is not improbable. 

Robert Lash died in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 4, 1811. He is buried in Christ Church Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.