Pillar of Liberty

[1] He began stirring up his fellow townsmen, and Town Meeting appointed a committee to draft a set of instructions to Samuel Dexter, their representative in the Great and General Court.

[4] Five days later, Nathaniel Ames recorded in his diary that a stone cutter was at work on a monument memorializing the repeal.

[5][7] The base, made out of a block of granite from Battelle's farm that had been squared, polished, had an inscription written by Ames.

[11] Seven months later, a 10-12' classical pillar of dark New England granite, likely dug from somewhere between the central village and West Dedham,[8] was added with a bust of William Pitt the Elder.

[7][12] Pitt was credited, according to the inscription on the base, of having "saved America from impending slavery, and confirmed our most loyal affection to King George III by procuring a repeal of the Stamp Act.

[Praise to God, the King, and the exceptional work of Pitt, the great- est benefactor, who plucked the republic from the jaws of Hell.