Nathaniel Bradlee was a housewright living at the corner of Hollis and Tremont Streets in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1773, in the home he built for his family two years earlier.
On the night of December 16, 1773, Nathaniel would join his brothers David, Josiah, and Thomas, and brother-in-law John Fulton, in the “destruction of the tea” at Griffin’s Wharf. Bradlee was a volunteer fire warden with Engine No. 8 in Boston and later became a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association in 1800.
Nathaniel Bradlee died in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 8, 1813. He is buried in the Central Burying Ground in Boston.
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