It consists of the Red Ensign with the flag of Great Britain in canton, defaced with the words "Liberty and Union" across the lower portion.

[1] The Reverend Caleb Barnum proposed a plan for a symbol of opposition to the British government and the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

[2] In commemoration, the Patriots erected a liberty pole, 112 feet (34 m) high, outside of the Taunton Courthouse and the house of Tory Loyalist lawyer Daniel Leonard.

[7] The wife of William McKinstry, the only Loyalist permitted to remain, expressed her disdain for the Taunton flag, and in response female Patriots dragged her from her house and forced her to march in front of the liberty pole where it was flying.

Their reasoning for using the flag is that "its historical period is correct, it keeps alive an ancestor to our Stars and Stripes, and because it is always in production and therefore, cheap".