Sampson W. Keeble

Historical marker location:

111 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Broadway and 2nd Avenue North, on the right when traveling east on Broadway.)

The first known protest against British taxation in America occurred in Tennessee in 1768, more than a decade before the famous Boston Tea Party. A group of settlers in the Watauga Association signed a petition protesting the British government's attempt to impose taxes on them without their consent.