Alexander McDougall, a leader of the Sons of Liberty in New York City, writing as “Hampden” published the first of five broadsides (essays printed on a large sheet of paper) entittled The Alarm attacking the East India Company. His final essay called for a boycott of its tea. McDougall would later servc with distinction as a general in the Continental Army.

Source: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution . New York, Vintage Books, 2020 at p. 13.