1. By Tucker

2.  The Sons of Liberty was a semi-secret organization that took liberty into its own hands.  They did things like running Tories out of town.  You had to be 16 to be a member of the Sons of Liberty.

3.  The Sons of Liberty was one of many secret organizations against the British.  Some of the jobs they carried out were running British tax agents out of town and tarring and feathering local Tories.  The first widely known acts of the Sons took place when an effigy of Andrew Oliver (Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts) was found hanging in a tree, along with a large boot with a devil climbing out of it.

4.  In Boston, in early summer of 1765, a group of workers who called themselves The Loyal Nine began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. The group came to be known as the Sons of Liberty.

5.  Heroes of the American Revolution, by Burke Davis  Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes  American Revolution, by Joy Massof  Fight for Freedom, by Benson Robrick  The Sons of Liberty, by Thomas Kindig