The+Sons+Of+Liberty

[|sons of liberty]web sit __**The Sons OF Liberty**__ In Boston at around 1765 a group of shopkeepers who called themselves the Loyal Nine, started to rebell agaist the Stamp Act. This group started to grow and grow and they became known as the Sons of Liberty. This group was made of townsmen and low life people like that, not like noble man or the big guys in Bosten. However, amongst the members were two men who could generate much public sentiment about the Act. Benjamin Edes, a printer, and John Gill of the //Boston Gazette// produced a steady stream of news and opinion. Within a very short time a group of some two thousand men had been organized under Ebenezer McIntosh, a South Boston shoemaker. The first acts that the Sons Of Liberty did took place in August 14, 1765, when a dummy of Andrew Oliver (who was to be commissioned Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts) was found hanging in a tree, and a devil coming out of a boot. This whole thing was to make an evil connetion between Andrew Oliver and the Stamp Act. The sherrifs were told to go clean up the scene but they were frighted for their lives, because there was a group of people were at the scene and they didn't want to get in the middle of that. Before that night a group of mobsters went to Andrew Oliver's proberty and burned his proberty, and then they cut off the head of the dummy of Andrew Oliver, and threw stones at his house while him and his family were inside watching in horror. Then the mob went to Fort Hill which was close by and burred the rest of the dummy. On that night it came very clear who the head guys in Bosten were, no one dared to cross paths with the British Maltia. During that year the Sons of Liberty was in every single colonies. Their drive was to get all the Stamp Collocters to quit and go away. There were people everywhere who would use the name Sons of Liberty to take reveange and other violince acts not connected to the cause of The Sons of Liberty. For example, there was a group of saliors in North Carolina and they supposedly called themselves the Sons Of Liberty. They went on the streets and forced the people, So the real Sons Of Liberty started to call themselves "True Sons" or "True Born Sons" of Liberty. Not all of the acts to undermind the Stamp Act had to do with violence most of the best work work they did was in the Newsprint and Newspaper. A bunch of the people in The Sons Of Liberty were printers and publishers, so they had like an inside job to withe stuff in the papers. Almost of the newspapers had daily reports of the things that the Sons were doing on a regular bases.