William Tuffs honored as the only Indiana man who took part of the Boston Tea Party

MIDDLEBURY, Ind. -- The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) and the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution (INDAR), honored the only known Indiana man to have taken part of Boston Tea Party.

They honored William Tuffs at the Bonneyville Cemetery.

"This program is an amazing opportunity for us to travel back to the communities that are a part of this Boston Tea Party story, and many people assume that the participants stayed in Boston. They stayed in New England. That could not be further from the truth. They fanned out and spread out for multiple different reasons across the United States of America," said Evan O'Brien, the creative manager at the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum.

The commemoration also featured a placing of a marker that signifies the final resting places of the known Boston Tea Party participants

"We have placed now well over 120 markers at the known headstones of Boston Tea Party participants, and you know here in Boston or up in Boston, I should say, you know we see hundreds of 1000s of people a year," said O'Brien.

O'Brien also says he appreciated the Hoosier hospitality, "Well, we are so blown away by your hospitality and welcoming us from Boston here to the great state of Indiana. We want to extend that offer back to you. Please travel to Massachusetts, come to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, where you can throw tea into Boston Harbor at the same location where it occurred as well."