The Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated Adams began his career as a lawyer. Intelligent, patriotic, opinionated and blunt, Adams became a critic of Great Four years after Revere rode through the Massachusetts countryside warning that the British were on the march to Lexington, the war for American independence dragged on.
Born in Scotland in , Jones came to America as a merchant sailor. When the American Revolution broke out, Jones sided with the colonists and joined the Continental Navy, with his greatest Paul Revere is best known as the Boston silversmith immortalized in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem describing the Patriot's midnight ride to warn about a British attack.
But that ride which wasn't exactly as Longfellow described is only one chapter in Revere's role in Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Who Was Paul Revere? Children Revere returned to Boston after a failed military expedition and started to build his family life and business. Boston Massacre With British troops in Boston and a rebellion stewing, Revere became a master propagandist, using his artisan skills to craft engravings that incited the colonists to join in the rebellion.
Recommended for you. How the Troubles Began in Northern Ireland. Revere expanded his business interests in the years following the Revolution. His plan was to turn the day-to-day operations of his silver shop over to his oldest son, Paul, Jr.
From to he operated a hardware store in downtown Boston where he sold locally made and imported English goods, including hammers, chisels, ink stands, looking glasses, and rolls of wallpaper. At times he operated his silver shop and hardware store at the same location. By he had opened a foundry which supplied bolts, spikes, and nails for shipyards in Boston and elsewhere including brass fittings for USS Constitution , produced cannons of various sizes and, after , cast bells.
Concerned that the United States had to import sheet copper from England, Revere opened the first successful copper rolling mill in North America in He provided copper sheeting for the hull of USS Constitution when it was re-coppered and the dome of the new Massachusetts State House in Revere Copper and Brass, Inc.
Revere Ware is now manufactured by a different company. He was an active Freemason for many years, beginning in , holding several offices in St. In , at the age of 76, Paul Revere retired and left his well-established copper business in the hands of his son Joseph Warren Revere and two of his grandsons. Revere seems to have remained healthy in his final years, despite the personal sorrow caused by the deaths of his wife Rachel and son Paul in Revere died of natural causes on May 10, at the age of 83, leaving five children, several grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren.
The son of an immigrant artisan, not born to wealth or inheritance, Revere died a modestly well-to-do businessman and a popular local figure of some note. Samuel Prescott. One must consider, however, what Revere and Dawes intended to accomplish when they set out from Boston. It appeared they were given a fairly specific probably written message to deliver to the patriot leaders. The alarm system devised by the patriots, and set in motion by Revere and Dawes, was specifically designed to insure that the capture of any one rider would not prevent the alarm from being sounded.
The mission was too important to leave to one rider alone, even one as experienced and trustworthy as Paul Revere. On the map, find and click on illustrations that represent the nine items shown below to access photos and other details.
If you have trouble locating an item, click on the links below. Enter your email address to get updates on special Paul Revere House programs, events, and more. Did Revere finish his midnight ride? Museum Hours Open daily from - He resumed his stride as a successful industrialist after the war, however, and set up a rolling mill for the manufacture of sheet copper at Canton, Massachusetts. From this factory came sheathing for many U. Revere died on May 10, , at the age of 83, at his home on Charter Street in Boston.
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