Danforth Homestead

Historical marker location:

Billerica, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Boston Road close to River Street.)

Marker installed: 1930

1630 - 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."