<P> Early street protests were most notable in Boston . Andrew Oliver was a distributor of stamps for Massachusetts who was hanged in effigy on August 14 , 1765 `` from a giant elm tree at the crossing of Essex and Orange Streets in the city 's South End . '' Also hung was a Jack boot painted green on the bottom ( `` a Green - ville sole '' ) , a pun on both Grenville and the Earl of Bute , the two people most blamed by the colonists . Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson ordered sheriff Stephen Greenleaf to take down the effigy , but he was opposed by a large crowd . All day the crowd detoured merchants on Orange Street to have their goods symbolically stamped under the elm tree , which later became known as the `` Liberty Tree '' . </P>
<P> Early street protests were most notable in Boston . Andrew Oliver was a distributor of stamps for Massachusetts who was hanged in effigy on August 14 , 1765 `` from a giant elm tree at the crossing of Essex and Orange Streets in the city 's South End . '' Also hung was a Jack boot painted green on the bottom ( `` a Green - ville sole '' ) , a pun on both Grenville and the Earl of Bute , the two people most blamed by the colonists . Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson ordered sheriff Stephen Greenleaf to take down the effigy , but he was opposed by a large crowd . All day the crowd detoured merchants on Orange Street to have their goods symbolically stamped under the elm tree , which later became known as the `` Liberty Tree '' . </P>
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