PAUL REVERE the MIDNIGHT RIDER

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PAUL REVEREthe MIDNIGHT RIDER
Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley,
c. 1768-70.

• by JOSHUA

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PAUL REVERE the CHILD

• Parents
• Apollos Rivoire (changed to Paul Revere), French
  Huguenot, father
• Deborah Hichborn, Boston Socialite, mother
• Owned a silversmith business

• Early Years
• Born late December, 1734
• North End, Boston
• Rang the bells at Old North Church for money
• Apprenticed as a silversmith under his father

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PAUL REVERE the YOUNG MAN

• Worked as dentist, silversmith and copper plate
  engraver
• Fought against the French in NEW YORK as a
  lieutenant
• Married Sarah Orne and had 8 children
• Sarah dies during childbirth, Paul then marries
  Rachel Walker
• Paul and Rachel have 8 more children

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PAUL REVERE the PATRIOT

• As a patriot, those against King George III, Paul
  Revere joins many patriotic groups
• Committees of Correspondence
• Sons of Liberty
• Freemason
• He becomes friends with many political
  agitators

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PAUL REVERE and the BOSTON MASSACRE

• Paul engraves political propaganda of the
  Boston Massacre in 1770
• March 5, 1770
• British fires on crowd of colonists
• 5 colonists die
• His work helped to cause the American Revolution

Boston Massacre Engraving by Paul Revere, 1770
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PAUL REVERE and the BOSTON TEA PARTY
1846 lithograph of Boston Tea Party

• Paul was a Mohawk Indian in the Boston Tea
  Party on December 16, 1773
• As a messenger, he rides throughout Boston and to
  New York with news of tea party
• He never admits he was there
• This event also helped to cause the American
  Revolution

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PAUL REVERE the MIDNIGHT RIDER

• The British are coming! The British are coming!
• On April 18th and 19th in 1775, Paul Revere makes
  the famous ride to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams
  and John Hancock that the British are coming to
  arrest them
• He and others warn the colonists of the attack by
  the British

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PAUL REVERE the MIDNIGHT RIDER

• Listen my children and you shall hear
• Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
• On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five
• Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that
  famous day and year.
• He said to his friend, "If the British march by
  land or sea from the town tonight,
• Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch of the
  North Church tower as a signal light,
• One if by land, and two if by sea
• And I on the opposite shore will be,
• Ready to ride and spread the alarm
• Through every Middlesex village and farm,
• For the country folk to be up and to arm."

Taken from the poem Paul Reveres Ride, by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, April 19, 1860.
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WANTED
WANTED FOR BEING A PATRIOT DRESSING UP LIKE AN
INDIAN RIDING A HORSE AFTER HOURS HELPING TO
START THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
KNOWN FOR BEING A SILVERSMITH A GOOD
ARTIST BEING A DENTIST
PAUL REVERE, THE MIDNIGHT RIDER
BORN December 1734
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PAUL REVERE the ELDER

• After the war, Paul opens a metal factory, a
  copper rolling mill and a hardware store.
• Paul retires in 1811 at the age of 76 and leaves
  the businesses to his sons.
• Paul dies on May 10, 1818 at the age of 83.
• He is buried at the Old Granary Burying Ground in
  Boston

Paul Revere memorial in the Granary Burying
Ground, Boston, Massachusetts
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References

1. The Historic Paul Revere, www.cvesd.k12.ca.us/fi
   nney/paulvm/h2_hist.
2. Temples Diary, A Tale of Benjamin Franklins
   Family, www.ushistory.org/franklin/temple.
3. Paul Revere, Wikipeadia, www.en.wikipeadia.org/w
   iki/paul_revere.
4. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Paul Reveres Ride,
   April 19, 1860.
5. The Patriot Resources History-American
   Revolutionary Era (1775-1781),
   www.patriotresource.com/people/revere.
6. Paul Revere, www.darter.ocps.net/classroom/revol
   ution/revere.