Tavern keeper and justice of the peace Silas Rhodes, alongside British deserter Bob Wheedle, leads a band of rebel soldiers known as "The Sons of Liberty" in acts of midnight justice against royal ocials attempting to enforce unpopular law in the pre-revolutionary New England township of Courage, New Hampshire. Tales depicting daily life in this 18th century early American township mixed with the turmoil of pre-revolutionary war in accurate historical detail, provide a storyline lled with intrigue, politics, family life and romance in this colonial period drama series.