Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ritish allies, the tree was cut downby a party led by one Job Williams. Armed with axes, theymade a furious attack upon it. After a long spell of laughingand grinning, sweating, swearing, and foaming, with malicediaboUcal, they cut down a tree because it bore the name ofLiberty. * Some idea of the size of the tree may be formed from the fact that it madefourteen cords of jesting at the expenseof the Sons of Libertyhad a sorry conclusion;one of the soldiers, in at-tempting to remove alimb, fell to the pavementand was killed. The ground
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ritish allies, the tree was cut downby a party led by one Job Williams. Armed with axes, theymade a furious attack upon it. After a long spell of laughingand grinning, sweating, swearing, and foaming, with malicediaboUcal, they cut down a tree because it bore the name ofLiberty. * Some idea of the size of the tree may be formed from the fact that it madefourteen cords of jesting at the expenseof the Sons of Libertyhad a sorry conclusion;one of the soldiers, in at-tempting to remove alimb, fell to the pavementand was killed. The ground immedi-ately about Liberty Treewas popularly known asLiberty Hall. In August,1767, a flagstaff had beenerected, which wenttlorough and extendedabove its highest flag hoisted upon this staff was the signal for the assemblingof the Sons of Liberty for action. Captain Mackintosh, thelast captain of the Popes, was the first captain-general ofLiberty Tree, and had charge of the illuminations, hanging ofeffigies, etc. * Essex Gazette, LIBERTY TREE. 398 OF BOSTON. After the old war was over a liberty-pole was erected on thestxmip of tlie tree, the latter long serving as a point of directionkuoAvn as Liberty Stump. A second pole was placed in posi-tion on the 2d July, 182G. It was intended to have been raisedduring the visit of Lafayette in 1825, and the following lines-were written by Judge Dawes : — Of liigh renown, here grew the Tree,Tlie Elm so dear to Libkuty ;Your sires, beneath its sacred Freedom early lioniage day witli filial awe surroundIts root, that sanctifies the by your fathers spirits swear,The rights they left you 11 not impair. Governor Bernard, writing to Lord Hillsborough under dateof June 18, 1768, gives the following account of LibertyTree : — Your Lordship must know that Liberty tree is a large old Ehnin the High Street, upon which the effigies were hung in the timeof the Stamp Act, and from whence th
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