Mary Dyer

Historical marker location:

Boston, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Beacon Street west of Bowdoin Street.)

Marker installed: 1959

Quaker.

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."