Benjamin Clarke

(June 13, 1727 – 1783)

Benjamin Clarke was a feltmaker or cooper in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1773.

He is included in both historian Francis S. Drake’s Tea Leaves and Benjamin Bussey Thatcher’s 1835 volume, Traits of the Tea Party, which supply conflicting information. The passage in Thatcher’s book implies that three of his sons participated in the event alongside him, but there has been no further evidence to corroborate this. Drake’s account states that Clarke became a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1801 and of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1806.  

Benjamin Clarke died in 1783.