The Sons of Liberty

   

In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it came to be known as the Sons of Liberty.The first widely known acts of the Sons took place on August 14, 1765, when an effigy of Andrew Oliver  was found hanging in a  

tree on Newbury street, along with a large boot with a devil climbing out of it. Samuel Adams and Paul Revere headed the Sons Of Liberty in Massachucets.