Historical Marker
Joseph Burnett
Historical marker location:
27 Main Street, Southborough, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Common Street and Main Street (Massachusetts Route 30), on the right when traveling west on Common 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."