Paul Revere

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Paul Revere (December 21, 1734 O.S.) is a member of the United States National Independence Council. (January 1, 1735, N.S.) In the American Revolution, May 10, 1818-born was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot.

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride" (1861), he is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord. Revere, a wealthy, well-established, and influential Boston silversmith, was 41 years old at the age of 41.

He had helped set up an intelligence and alarm system to track the British military.

Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, but his service came after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the worst campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of responsibility. Revere returned to his silversmith trade after the war.

He used the funds from his expanding business to finance his iron casting, bronze bell, and cannon casting, as well as the forged of copper bolts and spikes.

He became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval ships in 1800.

Early life and education

According to the Old Style calendar, or January 1, 1735 in the modern calendar, Revere was born in the North End of Boston on December 21, 1734. Apollos Rivoire, a French Huguenot, was born in Apollos Rivoire and was apprenticed to silversmith John Coney at the age of 13. By the time he married Deborah Hitchborn, a descendant of a long-standing Boston family that owned a small shipping wharf in 1729, Rivoire had anglicized his name to Paul Revere. Paul Revere, their son, was the third of 12 children and then the eldest surviving son. Revere grew up in the immediate vicinity of his extended Hitchborn family and never knew his father's native language. At 13 years old, he dropped out of school and became an apprentice to his father. Since he joined Boston society, the silversmith trade gave him access to a cross-section of Boston life, which would be useful to him as he began participating in the American Revolution. Revere was attracted to the Church of England because his father attended Puritan services. Revere, who was 15 years old at the time, was one of the first group of change ringers to ring the new bells (cast in 1744) at Christ Church in the north of Boston (the Old North Church). Revere returned to the West Church for the political and inflammatory Jonathan Mayhew's services. His father did not approve, and as a result, both father and son went to blows on one occasion. Revere restored to his father's church, but he did become friends with Mayhew and returned to the West Church in the late 1760s.

In 1754, Revere's father was legally too young to be the master of the family silver shop. He enlisted in the provincial army in February 1756, during the French and Indian war (the North American theater of the Seven Years' War). Possibly because of the poor economy, he made this decision, considering that the army service had promised steady pay. He served as a second lieutenant in a provincial artillery regiment at Fort William Henry in New York over the summer as part of an abortive measure for the capture of Fort St. Frédéric. He did not serve long in the army, but he returned to Boston and assumed responsibility of the silver store under his own name. He married Sarah Orne (1736-1733), who died eight months later, on August 4, 1757; his first child was born eight months later. He and Sarah had eight children, but two died young, and only one, Mary, had survived her father.

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