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TAUNTON  "LIBERTY AND UNION" FLAG FACTS

On November 23, 1773 a large flag was raised in Boston, Massachusetts above the Liberty Tree and the town crier called the population to come to a meeting.  The reason for the meeting was the arrival of English ships carrying tea to be sold to the American colonists under the Tea Act.  The governor would not permit the ships to return to England and the agents would not resign.  The people of Boston were determined that the ships would not land and the tea be brought ashore.  Two large meetings were held and after the second the Boston Tea Party resulted. 

Parliament decided to punish Boston by enacting four strong measures known as the "Intolerable Acts" (named thus by the Colonists).  This caused the First Continental Congress to convene in Philadelphia in September 1774 and organize the United Resistance. 

Along with the citizens of Boston, citizens in other towns raised protest flags.  One such town is Taunton, Mass.  On October 1774  a flag with a Red field bearing the words "LIBERTY AND UNION" in white letters and the British Union Jack as a square canton was raised on the Liberty Pole.