Thomas Bolter, housewright and engineman, participated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773.
He lived on Nassau (now Tremont) Street in Boston, Massachusetts, near fellow participants of the “destruction of the tea”, John Crane and Nathaniel Bradlee. According to Suffolk land records, “Thomas Bolter, housewright,” bought land in September 1785 situated “westerly on the street leading to the common.”
During the Revolutionary War, Thomas served in fellow tea party participant Major Joseph Eayres’ company of Colonel Flower’s artillery artificers’ regiment in the Continental Army from January 1777 to 1779. He was foreman of carpenters in Lieutenant Colonel David Mason’s artificers’ regiment during that period, and later was part of Captain Hawes’ artillery company for the year 1780, in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his sons enlisted.
After the war, Bolter was appointed as “sealer of wood” at the March 14, 1796, annual Boston Town meeting.
Thomas Bolter died in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 26, 1811. He is buried in the Central Burying Ground in Boston.
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