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Samuel Adams by Trevor ​
 * He threw loads of tea off the British ship and they called it the Boston Tea Party[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/J_S_Copley_-_Samuel_Adams.jpg/225px-J_S_Copley_-_Samuel_Adams.jpg width="295" height="323" align="right" caption="A stern middle-aged man with gray hair is wearing a dark red suit. He is standing behind a table, holding a rolled up document in one hand, and pointing with the other hand to a large document on the table." link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J_S_Copley_-_Samuel_Adams.jpg"]].


 * Samuel Adams was also one of the Sons of Liberty.


 * He helped draft the Articles of Confederation.


 * He helped guide congress towards issung the Declaration of Independence.


 * Samuel Adams was John Adams second cousin.
 * Accounts written in the 19 century praised him as someone who had been steering fellow colonists torwards Independence long before the break-out of the Revolutionary War.