Jonathan Dorby/Darby Robins/Robbins

(April 21, 1758 – December 20, 1848) 

Jonathan Robins was only fifteen years old at the time of the Boston Tea Party.  

Though he would go on to become an attorney and marry the daughter of participant Thomas Crafts Jr., there is no pre-1853 record of Robins destroying the tea; therefore, Robins is considered an “Eyewitness to History” with regard to the Boston Tea Party.  

The Crafts family history states that Robins was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill and garrisoned at Fort Ticonderoga, but no supporting documentation has yet been found. 

Jonathan Robbins died on December 20, 1848, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.