Title: PAUL REVERE the MIDNIGHT RIDER
1PAUL REVEREthe MIDNIGHT RIDER
Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley,
c. 1768-70.
2PAUL 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
3PAUL 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
4PAUL 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
5PAUL 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
6PAUL 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
7PAUL 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
8PAUL 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.
9WANTED
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
10PAUL 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
11References
- The Historic Paul Revere, www.cvesd.k12.ca.us/fi
nney/paulvm/h2_hist. - Temples Diary, A Tale of Benjamin Franklins
Family, www.ushistory.org/franklin/temple. - Paul Revere, Wikipeadia, www.en.wikipeadia.org/w
iki/paul_revere. - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Paul Reveres Ride,
April 19, 1860. - The Patriot Resources History-American
Revolutionary Era (1775-1781),
www.patriotresource.com/people/revere. - Paul Revere, www.darter.ocps.net/classroom/revol
ution/revere.