Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . becamefamous as the Liberty Tree, as the Sons ofLiberty used to rally under its wide-spread-ing branches. It was under this tree thatthe first public act of resistance to Britishtyranny showed itself. At dawn, on the 14thof August, 1765, an effigy of Andrew Oliver,the stamp officer, was discovered hanging toone of the larger branches, which causedgreat excitement. The sheriff was orderedby the colonial Governor Hutchinson toremove the effigy from the tree. But suchwas
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . becamefamous as the Liberty Tree, as the Sons ofLiberty used to rally under its wide-spread-ing branches. It was under this tree thatthe first public act of resistance to Britishtyranny showed itself. At dawn, on the 14thof August, 1765, an effigy of Andrew Oliver,the stamp officer, was discovered hanging toone of the larger branches, which causedgreat excitement. The sheriff was orderedby the colonial Governor Hutchinson toremove the effigy from the tree. But suchwas the intensity of public feeling, hedeclared he dare not do so. It was creatinga local revolution, and was removed bystratagem. The tree became famous about1760, and was named the Liberty Tree aboutthis time. On Feb. 14, 1766, it was prunedby the order of the Sons of Liberty. The ground about the tree had becomesacred soil, and was designated as LibertyHall, and really became the original stamp-ing ground of the Revolution, in defiance ofthe stamp act. In 1767 a flagstaff waserected, which went up through the branches, 84. The Inns of Old Boston upon which was hoisted a flag as a signalfor the assembling of the Sons of August, 1775, the Tories, encouraged bytheir British allies, and led on by one JobWilliams, armed with axes, made a furiousattack upon the Liberty Tree, and it wasruthlessly cut down. This vandal act causedgreat excitement. At the close of the Revo-lution a liberty pole was erected on the stumpof the old tree which long served as a pointof direction. This pole having served dur-ing the second war with Great Britain, andhaving gone into decay, another one waserected about the time of the arrival of Gen-eral Lafayette as the guest of the nation in1824. The modern brick building now onthis site has embedded in its front wall atablet with a Liberty Tree in bas-relief. Of other famous Revolutionary inns therewere, of course, several in Boston. The old-est o
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