George Robert Twelves Hewes ( August 25 , 1742 &ndash; November 5 , 1840 ) was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution , and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre . Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer . Shortly before his death at the age of 98 , Hewes was the subject of two biographies and much public commemoration
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George Robert Twelves Hewes