housewright
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housewrights
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He was a housewright in Essex Street, in 1789.
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
His father, Onesiphorous Tileston, also a housewright and a man of wealth, was captain of the Artillery Company in 1762.
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
He lived in Boston, and by trade was merchant and housewright.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
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