Historical Marker

Andrew Jackson Donelson

Historical marker location:
Hermitage, Tennessee
( Marker is on Rachels Lane, 0.9 miles east of Hermitage Road when traveling east.)

<i>Jackson's Protégé</i>.

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.