Francis Rotch
BIRTH
1750
Nantucket, Massachusetts
DEATH
New Bedford, Massachusetts
FAMILY
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Rotch, Francis
(1750-1802)
Francis Rotch was a Nantucket merchant and the owner of the Dartmouth, the first tea ship to reach Boston in 1773. Caught between colonial protestors and royal officials, he was compelled to seek clearance from Governor Hutchinson shortly before the Boston Tea Party.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Boston Tea Party Museum | 306 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK | ||
Griffin's Wharf - Boston Tea Party Marker | Seaport Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts, 02110, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
New Bedford, Massachusetts
The exact date and place of Francis Rotch’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Francis Rotch with work or public activity as a merchant. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.