“Spent the Evening with the Sons of Liberty, at their own Apartment ... in his engraved political cartoon about the events of 1765. When news of the Stamp Act’s repeal reached Boston in ...

The Stamp Act, passed by Parliament in 1765, imposed a direct tax on American ... six years later, the Sons of Liberty responded to the Tea Tax by tossing British tea into Boston Harbor.

The opening salvo of the American Revolution was fired Nov. 1, 1765 ... stamp act agent. There were also protests in the countryside led by local farmers, ministers, craftsmen, farmwives, sons ...

The Sons of Liberty usually appeared hereafter at the forefront of any anti-British agitation in the colonies.” It was the height of anti-tax sentiment throughout the colonies, the Stamp Act imposing ...

Anger flowed through the streets of Lewes in 1765 ... “Liberty” on his hat; and he proudly wore it around town. Many in England believed that the violent protests against the Stamp Act ...

When 12 judges in Frederick County, in an act of courage and rebellion that would earn them the moniker “immortal,” denounced the British Stamp Act on Nov. 23, 1765, old Frederick Town ...

After Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788), The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Americ-Stamp, 1766. BM 4140 copy B. Engraving with etching and contemporary hand coloring. Graphic Arts GA 2010. in process. The ...