Samuel Sloper

(June 12, 1747 – Unknown) 

Samuel Sloper was a shipwright living on Boston’s Fort Hill at the time of the Boston Tea Party.            

According to Sarah Gammell, daughter of fellow Boston Tea Party participant John Gammell, Sloper was one of the participants who destroyed the tea on Griffin’s Wharf on December 16, 1773. Beyond this, very little is known of the life of Samuel Sloper. As historian Francis S. Drake noted in his publication, Tea Leaves, Samuel Sloper “Was one of the party, of whom we have no further information.” 

There is no record of Samuel Sloper’s death or place of burial.