Colonel George Claghorn

Historical marker location:

New Bedford, Massachusetts

( Marker is on MacArthur Drive south of Elm Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1930

The Boston Tea Party wasn't the first act of rebellion against British taxation in America. In 1765, colonists in Massachusetts burned effigies of British tax collectors and destroyed their homes and property in what came to be known as the "Stamp Act Riots."