Sons of Neptune Sons of Neptune The Sons of Neptune was a group of colonial sailors directly associated with the Sons of Liberty before and during the American Revolution. The Sons of Neptune began to defend themselves against trade restrictions imposed by the British. They were involved in the Stamp Act Crisis, the Townsend Acts, and the Boston Tea Party. The term "Sons of Liberty" was used in America prior to 1765 by Colonel Isaac Barré, who coined the phrase "Sons of Liberty" for those whose rights were threatened by Lord Grenville's proposed stamp tax. This group of patriots was formed in New
No taxation without representation 1760s, the Americans were being deprived of a historic right. The English Bill of Rights 1689 had forbidden the imposition of taxes without the consent of Parliament. Since the colonists had no representation in Parliament, the taxes violated the guaranteed Rights of Englishmen. Parliament initially contended that the colonists had virtual representation, but the idea "found little support on either side of the Atlantic". John Dunmore Lang wrote in 1852, "The person who first suggested the idea [of Parliamentary representation for the colonies] appears to have been Oldmixon, an American annalist of the era of Queen Anne or George I.