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

PAUL REVERE the CHILD Parents Early Years 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

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

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”

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

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

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

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 Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, April 19, 1860.

WANTED WANTED FOR: KNOWN 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

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

References “The Historic Paul Revere,” www.cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/paulvm/h2_hist. “Temple’s Diary, A Tale of Benjamin Franklin’s Family,” www.ushistory.org/franklin/temple. “Paul Revere,” Wikipeadia, www.en.wikipeadia.org/wiki/paul_revere. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Paul Revere’s 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/revolution/revere.