Notable Sons of Liberty

Samuel Adams – political writer, tax collector, cousin of John Adams, fire warden. Founded the Sons Of Liberty, Boston

Joseph Allicocke – One of the leaders of the Sons in New York, and possibly of African ancestry.

Benedict Arnold – businessman, later General in the Continental Army and then the British Army

Timothy Bigelow – blacksmith, Worcester

John Brown – business leader of Providence, Rhode Island

John Crane – carpenter, colonel in command of the 3rd Continental Artillery Regiment, Braintree

Benjamin Edes – journalist/publisher Boston Gazette, Boston

Christopher Gadsden – merchant, Charleston, South Carolina

John Hancock – merchant, smuggler, fire warden, Boston

Patrick Henry – lawyer, Virginia

John Lamb – trader, New York City

Alexander McDougall – captain of privateers, New York City

Hercules Mulligan – tailor, spy under George Washington for the Continental Army, friend of Alexander Hamilton

James Otis – lawyer, Massachusetts

Matthew Phripp – a merchant, chairman of the Norfolk committee of safety, prominent Free Mason, and colonel of the militia. Norfolk, Virginia

Charles Willson Peale – portrait painter and saddle maker, Annapolis, Maryland

Paul Revere – silversmith, fire warden, Boston

Benjamin Rush – physician, Philadelphia

Isaac Sears – captain of privateers, New York City

Haym Salomon – financial broker, New York and Philadelphia

James Swan – financier, Boston

Isaiah Thomas – printer, Boston then Worcester, first to read Declaration of Independence in Massachusetts

Charles Thomson – tutor, secretary, Philadelphia

Joseph Warren – doctor, soldier, Boston

Thomas Young – doctor, Boston

Marinus Willett – cabinetmaker, soldier, New York

(Last update: 2018-11-10)