<P> After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Isaac Sears, Marinus Willet, and John Lamb in New York City revived the Sons of Liberty . In March 1784, they rallied an enormous crowd that called for the expulsion of any remaining Loyalists from the state starting May 1 . The Sons of Liberty were able to gain enough seats in the New York assembly elections of December 1784 to have passed a set of punitive laws against Loyalists . In violation of the Treaty of Paris (1783), they called for the confiscation of the property of Loyalists . Alexander Hamilton defended the Loyalists, citing the supremacy of the treaty . </P> <P> In 1767, the Sons of Liberty adopted a flag called the rebellious stripes flag with nine vertical stripes, four white and five red . A flag having 13 horizontal red and white stripes was used by Commodore Esek Hopkins (Commander - in - Chief of the Continental Navy) and by American merchant ships during the war . This flag was also associated with the Sons of Liberty . Red and white were common colors of the flags, although other color combinations were used, such as green and white or yellow and white . </P> <Ul> <Li> Samuel Adams--political writer, tax collector, cousin of John Adams, fire warden . Founded the Sons Of Liberty, Boston </Li> <Li> Joseph Allicocke--One of the leaders of the Sons in New York, and possibly of African ancestry . </Li> <Li> Benedict Arnold--businessman, later General in the Continental Army and then the British Army </Li> <Li> Timothy Bigelow--blacksmith, Worcester </Li> <Li> John Brown--business leader of Providence, Rhode Island </Li> <Li> John Crane--carpenter, Colonel in command of the 3rd Continental Artillery Regiment, Braintree </Li> <Li> Benjamin Edes--journalist / publisher Boston Gazette, Boston </Li> <Li> Christopher Gadsden--merchant, Charleston, South Carolina </Li> <Li> John Hancock--merchant, smuggler, fire warden, Boston </Li> <Li> Patrick Henry--lawyer, Virginia </Li> <Li> John Lamb--trader, New York City </Li> <Li> Alexander McDougall--captain of privateers, New York City </Li> <Li> Hercules Mulligan--tailor, spy under George Washington for the Continental Army, friend of Alexander Hamilton </Li> <Li> James Otis--lawyer, Massachusetts </Li> <Li> Charles Willson Peale--portrait painter and saddle maker, Annapolis, Maryland </Li> <Li> Paul Revere--silversmith, fire warden, Boston </Li> <Li> Benjamin Rush--physician, Philadelphia </Li> <Li> Isaac Sears--captain of privateers, New York City </Li> <Li> Haym Salomon--financial broker, New York and Philadelphia </Li> <Li> James Swan--American patriot and financier, Boston </Li> <Li> Isaiah Thomas--printer, Boston then Worcester, first to read Declaration of Independence in Massachusetts </Li> <Li> Charles Thomson--tutor, secretary, Philadelphia </Li> <Li> Joseph Warren--doctor, soldier, Boston </Li> <Li> Thomas Young--doctor, Boston </Li> <Li> Marinus Willett--cabinetmaker, soldier, New York </Li> <Li> Oliver Wolcott--lawyer, Connecticut </Li> </Ul> <Li> Samuel Adams--political writer, tax collector, cousin of John Adams, fire warden . Founded the Sons Of Liberty, Boston </Li>

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