Thomas White

An Irishman Dumps Tea in Boston Harbor

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An Irish man from County Kilkenny named Thomas White was part of the history-making Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, when angry Bostonians led by Sam Adams and the…

An Irish man from County Kilkenny named Thomas White was part of the history-making Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, when angry Bostonians led by Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three British ships and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. Their act of defiance over “taxation without representation” was…

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