William Molineux (1716 - October 1774) was an American merchant best known for his role in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. A member of the Sons of Liberty, he organized the Tea Party along with Samuel Adams, and served as the group's spokesman during protests.
Molineux had bought a lot on Harvard Street in 1749, but apparently that was a real-estate investment; he sold it twenty years later, apparently still as an empty lot.
The earliest record of WilliamMolineux in Annie Haven Thwing’s database about people in Boston is dated 10 Apr 1747, when he bought a house and land of Phillips Chamberlain on Orange Street in the South End.
WilliamMolineux and Ann Guionneau married on 22 Dec 1747, according to Boston’s published town records.
William Adams was a prisoner on board of the brigantine, and reported that his vessel, the schooner St. Peter, while carrying despatches from Boston to Newfoundland, had been captured by the St. Jean on Apr. 12.
The Molineux, the Fame, the Launceston, and the Eltham were in the chase, and the Molineux finally got close enough to attack and capture the French vessel.
It was really the Molineux, Captain Snelling, carrying 110 soldiers, that sailed from Nantasket early in the morning of the 25th, and not the snow Caesar, which was a vessel of 14 guns and was commanded by John (not George) Griffith.
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