Samuel Coolidge

(August 13, 1753 – December 20, 1816) 

Samuel Coolidge, a 20-year-old yeoman from Natick, Massachusetts was, according to the Coolidge Genealogy, “one of those who, disguised as an Indian, helped throw the tea overboard in the famous Boston Tea Party.” 

Not much else is known about the early life of Samuel Coolidge, and though there were many Samuel Coolidge’s in Watertown in 1773, historian Benjamin Carp included the Samuel here in his book Defiance of the Patriots as the Samuel who participated in the Boston Tea Party. 

In Benjamin Bussey Thatcher’s Traits of the Tea Party […], published in 1853, there is an “S. Coolidge” shown alongside the others mentioned in that list, likely Samuel Coolidge.