Under the boughs of the original Liberty Tree in Boston in 1765, patriots, calling themselves "The Sons of Liberty," gathered to protest the imposition of the Stamp Act. In the years that followed, almost every American town had a Liber…
The Province Bell was the name first used to describe me. I was ordered from the English bell foundry of Whitechapel in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Assembly. I was to be part of the celebration which would commemorate the 50th anniversary of William …