Peter Slater

Location: Section 37

On July 4,1870, this white marble obelisk, made at the local monument works of Tateum & Horgan, was dedicated in honor of Peter Slater and his fellow participants in the Boston Tea Party. Only age 13 in 1773, Peter was commended for his ripping the pockets of a man called "Cotton" who had filled his pockets with spilled tea and was trying to sneak away with the contraband. Slater later moved to Worcester where he was a rope-maker, general store operator and hotelier. The early nineteenth century slate markers on this family lot commemorate his wife and four of their children; the early twentieth century stone bench memorial¬izes Slater's great-grandson, Frank Fay, an owner of the Worcester Woolen Company.