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Paul Revere
Early Life
Early Life
- Born January 1, 1735
- Paul Revere was a silversmith and ardent colonialist
-Known most in history for taking part in the Boston Tea Party
-Was principal rider for Boston's Committee of Safety (In that role, he created a system of lanterns to notify the minutemen, in which the ride took place on April 18, 1775.
Jobs
Previous Jobs
- Revere’s primary occupation was a goldsmith/silversmith,
- Although goldsmiths worked in both gold and silver, referred to today as silversmiths
- His silver shop was the cornerstone of his professional life for more than 40 years
- He was the master craftsman, who was responsible for both the workmanship and the quality of the metal alloy used
-During the economic depression that followed the French and Indian War,
- Revere began worked as a copperplate engraver
- He also practiced as a dentist from 1768 to 1775, He cleaned teeth, fastened in false teeth and sold toothpaste.
Revolutionary War Involvement
Revolutionary War
Involvement
- Commander of the field artillery in a large multi-colony expedition sent to the Maine district of Massachusetts
- Lieutenant colonel in the Massachusetts State Train of Artillery and commander of Castle Island in Boston Harbor
- The famous Midnight ride
Post War Productivity
Post War
- From 1783 to 1789 he worked a home improvement shop in downtown Boston where he sold privately made and imported English products, including hammers, etches, ink stands, mirrors, and moves of backdrop.
-1788 he had opened a foundry which provided jolts, spikes, and nails for shipyards in Boston and somewhere else (counting metal fittings for USS Constitution), created guns of different sizes
- after 1792, cast ringers. Perhaps the biggest ringer still rings in Boston's Kings Chapel.
Political Involvement
Politics
- Member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew,
- In the year before the Revolution, Revere gathered intelligence by “watching the Movements of British Soldiers,”
- He was a courier for the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety As a member of the North Caucus
- Revere took part in meetings that planned the destruction of East India Company Tea in December 1773
Final Years
- In 1811, at 76 years old, he resigned and left his copper business to his child Joseph Warren Revere and his two grandsons
- He died on May 10, 1818 at 83 years old
- Revere died as a humbly wealthy representative and a prevalent neighborhood figure of some note