The Shoemaker And The Tea Party Analysis

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The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution was written by Alfred F. Young in 1999. George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker, became a citizen between 1768 and 1775. Hewes was an active participant in the events that led to the Revolution. Hewes participated in three major events: the Massacre (1770), the Tea Party (1773), and the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm (1774). “All this is conjecture, but it is clear that, though he lived in Boston proper, he was not part of proper Boston––not until the events of the Revolution.” Hewes participated in the events as a citizen––utterly revolutionized. The presence of British troops in Boston beginning in the summer of 1768––four thousand soldiers in a town of fewer than sixteen thousand inhabitants––touched Hewes personally. Hewes was victimized by a soldier by the …show more content…
Hewes was placed in the middle of the Boston Massacre in 1770. February 23, 1770, an eleven year old schoolboy, by the name of Christopher Seider, was killed by a loyalist merchant who opened fire into a crowd of apprentices and schoolboys picketing his shop. Next, two days before the Massacre, a few off-duty British soldiers asked for work at Gray’s causing tension with the civilians; this resulted with a beaten from Bostonians. Consequently, in Thatcher’s words, “quite a number of soldiers in a word, were determined to have a row on the night of the 5th.” Then on March 5th, British soldiers were equipped and prepared to wipe the streets of rowdy civilians. Hewes refused to clear the streets––he believed they had a legal basis to refuse. The British subsequently opened fire, killing five workingmen. Hewes knew four of the five men that was murdered. Not only that, but he caught James Caldwell as he fell. The Massacre drove Hewes to take a political stand. Hewes and ninety-eight Bostonians gave depositions for the prosecution that was published by the town in a pamphlet. Hewes became a citizen as well as a political
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