Captain Alexander "Devil Alex" Ewing

Historical marker location:

5101 Buena Vista Pike, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Buena Vista Pike, 0.1 miles south of Beals Lane, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1995

1752-1822.

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.