Bartholomew Trow

(July 7, 1736 – September 20, 1806) 

Bartholomew Trow was a cordwainer living in Charlestown, Massachusetts, at the time of the Boston Tea Party.        

Trow’s heirs cited his participation in the “destruction of the tea” on December 16, 1773, as “one of those who engaged in throwing overboard the tea from the British vessels in Boston Harbor.” 

According to his children, Trow also participated in the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill at the start of the war. The Trow family home and all their belongings were unfortunately destroyed with the British burning of Charlestown during that battle.  

Following the Revolutionary War, Bartholomew Trow fell ill, leaving the family destitute. The Congressional committee ultimately refused the family’s war pension petition for failing to provide the evidence required for a pension at the time. 

Bartholomew Trow died on September 20, 1806, and is buried in Boston’s Central Burying Ground.