March also marked the emergence of Sons of Liberty organizations in New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia. January bore witness to a correspondence link between Boston and New York City, and by March, Providence had initiated connections with New York, New Hampshire, and Newport, Rhode Island. In December, an alliance was formed between groups in New York and Connecticut. By November 6, a committee was set up in New York to correspond with other colonies.
A precursor of this group was the Loyal Nine.
In August 1765, the group was founded in Boston, Massachusetts. The organization spread hour by hour, after independent starts in several different colonies.
The name is presumed to have been inspired by the phrase's use in a pro-American, anti-taxation speech in the House of Commons on February 6, 1765, by Irish MP Isaac Barré. The most incendiary tax was the Stamp Act of 1765, which caused a firestorm of opposition through legislative resolutions (starting in the colony of Virginia), public demonstrations, threats, and occasional hurtful losses. This became commonly known as " No Taxation without Representation." Parliament insisted on its right to rule the colonies despite the fact that the colonists had no representative in Parliament. The British passed a series of taxes aimed at the colonists, and many of the colonists refused to pay certain taxes they argued that they should not be held accountable for taxes which were decided upon without any form of their consent through a representative. In 1765, the British government needed money to afford the 10,000 officers and soldiers living in the colonies, and intended that the colonists living there should contribute. The men also are shown pouring "Tea" down Malcolm's throat note the noose hanging on the Liberty Tree and the Stamp Act posted upside-down The Bostonian Paying the Excise-Man, 1774 British anti-American propaganda cartoon, referring to the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm four weeks after the Boston Tea Party.
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