Historical Marker
John Hancock Birth Site
Historical marker location:
8 Adams Street, Quincy, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Adams Street and Hancock Street, on the right when traveling east on Adams Street.)
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."