There existed more subtle ways to ruin a man's life than tarring and feathering (though that certainly makes for better television, cf. Liberty's Kids, John Adams, etc.), and one of those ways was (surely) disseminating these men's names (and perceived offenses against liberty) throughout the local reading public. On the back page of the April 17, 1775 Boston Gazette, we find two instances of this, brought to us by a January convention* held in Sudbury, MA. (Sudbury is a town of approx. 18,000, which even now boasts of its "long colonial history" in its Wikipedia article. And yet longer may it be so!)
