Liberty with John Hancock to protest unfair taxation on the residents of the colonies. The statue is meant to convey his attitude at the point, after the Boston Massacre, when Adams demanded that Governor Thomas Hutchinson remove British troops from the city. The troops were moved to Castle Island in Boston Harbor. The inscription on the monument states "Samuel Adams 1722–1803 – A Patriot – He organized the Revolution, and signed the Declaration of Independence. Governor – A True Leader of the People. Erected A. D. 1880, from a fund bequeathed to the city of Boston by Jonathan Phillips. A statesman, incorruptible and fearless." The pedestal is ten feet high. That statue sits upon a polished Quincy granite base and cap and a lower nine-feet square base of unpolished Quincy granite. The granite plaza surface is marked for with the approximate location of the early Colonial shoreline c. 1630. The street layout and building plot plan designations from an 1820 map are shown by etched dashed lines and changes from pink granite to grey granite paving slabs. The shoreline marking artwork entitled, A Once and Future Shoreline, is made with etched silhouettes of seaweed, sea grass, fish, shells and other materials found along a high tide line. It first stood in Adams Square, but was moved for the construction of the Government Center. References Further reading External links Samuel Adams, Architect of the Capitol Close-up of Samuel Adams, Boston sculpture 1876 sculptures 1880 sculptures Arts in Boston Cultural depictions of Samuel Adams Government Center, Boston Monuments and memorials in Boston Monuments and memorials in Washington, D.C. Adams, Samuel Outdoor sculptures in Massachusetts Sculptures of men in Massachusetts Sculptures of men in Washington, D.C. Statues in Boston Statues in Washington, D.C. Statues of activists Statues of U.S. Founding Fathers