Thomas Crafts, Jr.

Thomas Crafts (1740-1799) was a painter tradesman who participated in the Boston Tea Party. During the Revolutionary War he rose to the rank of Colonel and commanded the artillery unit where Paul Revere served. He is believed to have been one of the people who made the Mohawk disguise worn by some of the participants of the Boston Tea Party. His first significant action was participation in the “Loyal Nine”, the group of patriots formed to protest the Stamp Act by driving out stamp distributors from the city. The Loyal Nine club was formed in August 1765 and in December it started calling itself the Sons of Liberty.

Crafts was one of the patriots who in August 14, 1765 hanged the effigy of Andrew Oliver, distributor of stamps for Massachusetts from a giant elm tree at the crossing of Essex and Orange Streets in the city’s South End. The elm tree later became known as the "Liberty Tree".

from: http://www.boston-tea-party.org/participants/Thomas-Crafts.html

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