Sons of Liberty. Reaction to the Stamp Act was violent and widespread. Taking their name from Barre's speech, groups of colonists formed the Sons of Liberty, political action groups that channeled resistance to the Stamp Act. In Boston, Andrew Oliver, Hutchinson's brother-in-law, had been appointed stamp agent. On the night of 15 August a mob led by the Sons of Liberty attacked Oliver's office, where he stored the hated stamps. After destroying the office and stamps, they marched to his home, which they nearly completely destroyed. Two weeks later the mob descended on Hutchinson's home, regarding his moderate response as a sign of duplicity: James Otis charged Hutchinson with creating the idea of the Stamp Act. The mob destroyed Hutchinson's home and his papers, including documents Hutchinson was collecting for his history of Massachusetts. Similar violence in other colonies greeted the arrival of stamps...