Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Dissident organization during the American Revolution For other uses, see Sons of Liberty (disambiguation). Sons of Liberty The Rebellious Stripes Flag Leaders See below Dates of operation 1765 (1765) –1776 (1776) Motives Before 1766: Opposition to the Stamp Act After 1766 ...
Harrison Horton Dodd (February 29, 1824 – June 2, 1906) was a founder of the 1860s-era OSL (Order of Sons of Liberty), [1] a paramilitary oath bound secret society which was a radicalized dissident splinter group of the KGC (Knights of the Golden Circle).
The Loyal Nine all became active members of the Sons of Liberty. By some accounts, they were the leaders of the organization in its earliest days. [1] [10] [11] Loyal Nine members Henry Bass, Thomas Chase, and Benjamin Edes became members of the North End Caucus, [10] a political group reputedly involved in the planning of the Boston Tea Party ...
A vigorous opponent of the taxation of America, Barré displayed his mastery of invective in his championship of the American cause, and the name "Sons of Liberty", which he had applied to the colonists in one of his speeches, became a common designation of American organisations directed against the Stamp Act, as well as later patriotic clubs.
The organization took its name from the American Sons of Liberty founded by Samuel Adams during the American Revolution. The Société des Fils de la Liberté held its first public assembly on September 5 and began to recruit men to form militias. A public assembly was held every Monday after its foundation.
Thomson became a leader of Philadelphia's Sons of Liberty. He was inducted into the American Philosophical Society around 1750. [4] Thomson was a leader in the revolution of the early 1770s. John Adams called him the "Samuel Adams of Philadelphia". Thomson served as the secretary of the Continental Congress in its entirety.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Sons of Liberty. Avery was a member of the Sons of Liberty. [6] Massachusetts Secretary
Joseph Allicocke (alternatively Joseph Allicock [1] or Allicoke [2]) was an American colonist possibly of mixed African and European descent, and an early leader of the Sons of Liberty during the protests against the Stamp Act of 1765.