Elizabeth Nichols Dyar facts for kids

Elizabeth Nichols Dyar (1751-June 4, 1818) was an American patriot best known for her role in the Boston Tea Party.

She was the wife of Joseph Dyar (born 1747), a sea captain and member of the revolutionary organization Sons of Liberty, whose aim was to fight taxation by the British government. Elizabeth decided to join her husband in the protest against the British Government after the passage of Tea Act of 1773. She and two other Daughters of Liberty had painted the faces and bodies of the revolutionaries to disguise them as Mohawk Indians before the men boarded ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.

Following the Boston Tea Party, the British occupied the city of Boston and the life of the Dyars was endangered. However, Elizabeth with her children were able to flee to her childhood home in Malden, Massachusetts, hiding in an butcher cart.

After the death of her husband, she moved to Maine with her son John, his wife, and family. She died on June 4, 1818.