Sarah F. Donovan is a PhD Candidate at William & Mary. Her dissertation explores the relationship between the Paxton Boys, Black Boys, and Augusta Boys along the North American frontier and the Whiteboys, Oakboys, and Steelboys in Ireland throughout the 1760s and 1770s. She argues that these groups of “boys,” who adopted similar disguises and used similar tactics of violence to express similar grievances, illuminate the struggles for property and authority throughout the British Empire on the eve of the Age of Revolutions. In addition to the generous support of the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, Sarah’s work has also been supported by the George Washington Presidential Library, the Huntington Library, and the Pennsylvania State Archives with the Pennsylvania Historical Association.