Facts about Paul Revere
Paul Revere (December 22, 1734 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
The full suits of armor, or even simple breast plates, actually stopped bullets fired from a modest distance.
Paul Revere died on May 10, 1818, at the age of 83, at his home on Charter Street in Boston.
By the time he married Deborah Hichborn, a member of a long-standing Boston family that owned a small shipping wharf, Rivoire had anglicized his name to Paul Revere.
Today, noted silversmiths such as Reed & Barton offer reproduction "Paul Revere Bowls" for sale to the public.
In 1861, over 40 years after his death, the ride became the subject of "Paul Revere's Ride," a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Other historians have since stressed his importance, however, including David Hackett Fischer in his book Paul Revere's Ride, an important scholarly study of Revere's role in the opening of the Revolution.
Paul Revere appears on the $5,000 Series EE Savings Bond issued by the United States Government.
Revere was born in the North End of Boston on December 21, 1734, according to the Old Style calendar then in use, or January 1, 1735, in the modern calendar. His father, a French Huguenot born Apollos Rivoire came to Boston at the age of 13 and was apprenticed to the silversmith John Coney.
Samuel (Larkin) … born Oct. 22, 1701; died Oct. 8, 1784, aged 83; he was a chairmaker, then a fisherman and had horses and a stable. He was the owner of “Brown Beauty,” the mare of Paul Revere's Ride made famous by the Longfellow poem.
The purpose of Paul Revere's midnight ride, as you may recall from your high school history class, was to race to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops - 700 of them - were marching to Concord to arrest them. True, warning Adams and Hancock triggered Revere's ride from Boston.
Born January 1, 1735, Paul Revere was a silversmith and ardent colonialist. He took part in the Boston Tea Party and was principal rider for Boston's Committee of Safety. In that role, he devised a system of lanterns to warn the minutemen of a British invasion, setting up his famous ride on April 18, 1775.Apr 27, 2017