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Taunton's patriots & tories: the patriotic struggle in one southeastern Massachusetts community led to honor for patriot Robert Treat Paine and obscurity for Tory Daniel Leonard. (History -- Struggle for Freedom).
The night air was cold that February evening in 1775. But Tory loyalist Colonel Thomas Gilbert and the 30 or so ruffians accompanying him were hot with resentment as they trudged along the rural road through Berkley, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty had all but taken over the town of Taunton, county seat of old Plymouth Colony's western county. Not only had the Sons of Liberty accosted Gilbert on that same road the previous year in an attempt to prevent him from accepting the post of sheriff for Bristol County, but they had also had committed the ultimate act of sedition on October 21, 1774. The Sons had erected a 112-foot high "Liberty Pole" on Taunton Green that day, ...
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