The sloop liberty, whose seizure prompted several thousand angry bostonians to rough up customs officials and a night of violent rioting, was owned by which wealthy boston merchant?

The answer is John Hancock. He was an American merchant and a noticeable Patriot of the American Revolution. He became the president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is reminisced for his big and stylish sign on the United States Declaration of Independence because of that the term John Hancock has become a alternative word in the United States for one's signature.