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Rowe was evidently a very active smuggler, avoiding British trade regulations by trading with forbidden ports. [4] He was also an active slave dealer, shown by his advertisement in the 28 July 1746 edition of the Boston Evening Post. In the ad, Rowe listed goods for auction at his wharf, such as cocoa and rum.
Colonial smugglers played a significant role in the protests, since the Tea Act made legally imported tea cheaper, which threatened to put smugglers of Dutch tea out of business. [ 180 ] [ i ] Legitimate tea importers who had not been named as consignees by the East India Company were also threatened with financial ruin by the Tea Act [ 181 ...
Captain Daniel Malcolm [1] (c. 1725 – October 23, 1769) was an American merchant, sea captain, and smuggler. [2] Malcolm was known for resisting the British authorities in the years leading up to the American Revolutionary War. [3]
Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 – January 11, 1854), was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune.
Aspinet died sometime in 1623 after being driven into hiding by the Plymouth colonists. While it is unclear exactly what circumstances he died under, he was allegedly the leader of a group of sagamores seeking to drive out the Plymouth colonists, a plan which was foiled when Massasoit (sagamore of the Wampanoag) warned colonial leaders. [1]
Thomas Hancock (July 17, 1703 – August 1, 1764) was an American merchant and politician best known for being the uncle of Founding Father and statesman John Hancock.The son of an Anglican preacher, Thomas Hancock rose from obscurity to become one of the wealthiest businessmen in colonial Massachusetts, accumulating a 70,000 pound fortune over the course of his lifetime and becoming the ...
Their daughter Lydia Henchman Hancock was born in 1776 and died ten months later. [141] Their son John was born in 1778 and died in 1787 after suffering a head injury while ice skating. [142] [143] While president of Congress, Hancock became involved in a long-running controversy with Harvard.
Thomas Kingsmill (bapt. 22 January 1720 – 26 April 1749) was an English outlaw and one of the leaders of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers that operated, from its base in Kent, along the South Coast of England from 1735 until 1749.