Stephen Greenleaf (1704-1795)

In 1765, when a crowd hangs political effigies on the Liberty Tree you are ordered to remove them, but the people will not allow you. Two years later, crowds again defy you when you try to evict squatters from a building that British soldiers wish to occupy. You are defied again when ordered to stop an illegal meeting that plots the "Boston Tea Party." When you tell the crowd to disperse, people hiss in response. Your brother, a Patriot, later replaces you as Sheriff but you remain in Boston.