Hello All .
                           I have a great little story to put into this thread.   When my wife first came down to Connecticut to marry me we met an old artist friend of mine who asked Erica what she did in Boston and she told him that among other things she had worked at Paul Reveres house in the north of Boston. A year or so later this guy gave Erica a small drawing that he said came out of a collection of books he had bought from Roger Sherman's house of Sherman Ct. It was a drawing of the Green Dragon Inn where the Masons gathered that night and on it were these words
                                        GREEN DRAGON TAVERN                          
                      WHERE WE MET TO PLAN THE COSINGNMENT
                        OF A FEW SHIPMENTS OF TEA DEC 16 th 1773
                      PAUL REVERE NORTH ?????? BOSTON MASS.      
                               JOHN JOHNSON 4 WATER ST.    1779
        
                       The Picture shows an old building with barrels on the roof or widows walk . Not a common practice in modern day New England.
        At any rate years latter I showed the paper to the curatorial department at the Wooster Museum who are interested in Revere and the masons of that period and she said that yes it was real but it was a remembrance of a get-together years later to remember what they had done . She showed me one they had in their collection that was very much like ours but with a horse and rider not in my copy and without the Barrels on the roof. Both drawings had the masonic logo on them in different places !
                          The point is the action was political in my take. Roger Sherman of Connecticut went very far out of his way (if he was involved ) to help tea smugglers. I think he went back to the reunion party because of its important place in the history of our separation from the mother country and it was defiantly a free mason action! .
                                    All the best to all here. Guy Wolff