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You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 3/27/2011 10:51:50 AM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online In the November 21st 1807 edition of the Columbian Centinel a Boston Massachusetts  we find a small front page ad from a small printing firm seeking the help financially of the the United States Government for their Sheet-Copper manufactury.You may have heard of this gentlemen before  his name is Paul Revere.I love these old newspapers mostly I collect them for their glass related ads and signifcance but an added bonus is all of our countrys early history told the next day after it happened.This particular newspaper had no known ads that interested me just the price of $10.00 was attrative to me.You would be surprised at what you will stumble on to in these old papers. A little history about the man behind the ad.In my humble opinion one of the top ten people in our countrys history. Revere was likely born  December,29th 1734, in Boston's North End.His father was a  French Huguenot  and his mother was Deborah Hichborn, daughter of a local artisan family. Paul Revere had eleven siblings. He was the third oldest child and the eldest surviving son. Revere's father, born Apollos Rivoire, came to Boston at the age of 13 and was apprenticed to the silversmith John Coney. 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. Paul was educated at the North Writing School and learned the art of gold and silversmithing from his father. When Paul was nineteen (and nearly finished with his apprenticeship) his father died, leaving Paul as the family's main source of income. Two years later, in 1756, Revere volunteered to fight the French at Lake George, New York, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the colonial artillery.  Deborah probably assumed control of the business, while Paul and one of his younger brothers did the silver work. Revere fought briefly in the Seven Years War (French and Indian War), serving as a second lieutenant in an artillery regiment that attempted to take the French fort at Crown Point, in present day New York. Upon Revere returned to Boston after the war and assumed control of the silver shop in his own name.His silvershop was the cornerstone of his professional life for more than 40 years. As the master of his silversmith shop, Revere was responsible for both the workmanship and the quality of the metal alloy used. He employed numerous apprentices and journeymen to produce pieces ranging from simple spoons to magnificent full tea sets. His work, highly praised during his lifetime, is regarded as one of the outstanding achievements in American decorative arts. Revere also supplemented his income with other work. During the economic depression before the Revolution, Revere began his work as a copper plate engraver. He produced illustrations for books and magazines, business cards, political cartoons, bookplates, a song book and bills of fare for taverns. He also advertised as a dentist from 1768 to 1775. He not only cleaned teeth, but also wired in false teeth carved from walrus ivory or animal teeth. Contrary to popular myth, he did not make George Washington's false teeth. Fabricating a full set of dentures was beyond his ability.  One of the skills that distinguished him from other silversmiths was that he was not only an expert smith but also a skilled engraver and one of the few craftsmen who could complete a piece of silver, even to the engraved decoration. The daybooks of his shop that survived the years documents that the shop crafted more than 5,000 products.  There were many small and affordable items such as buckles, buttons, rings and beads. He was also a prominent Freemason as he rose through the ranks to become head master at his lodge. Revere's silver work quickly gained attention in Boston; at the same time, he was befriending numerous political dissenters, including most closely Dr. Joseph Warren. On August 4, 1757, Paul Revere married Sarah Orne, who bore eight children, six of whom survived. During the 1760s, Revere produced a number of political engravings and advertised as a dentist, and became increasingly involved in the actions of the Sons of Liberty. In 1770, he purchased the house in North Square which is now open to the public. One of his most famous engravings was done in the wake of the Boston Massacre in March of 1770. It is not known whether Revere was present during the Massacre, though his detailed map of the bodies, meant to be used in the trial of the British soldiers held responsible, suggests that he had first-hand knowledge.His wife  Sarah died in 1773, and on October 10 of that year Revere married Rachel Walker, with whom he would have five more surviving children. Revere's political involvement arose through his connections with members of local organizations and his business patrons. As a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew, he was friendly with activists like James Otis and Dr. Joseph Warren. In the year before the Revolution, Revere gathered intelligence information by "watching the Movements of British Soldiers," as he wrote in an account of his ride. He was a courier for the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, riding express to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He also spread the word of the Boston Tea Party to New York and Philadelphia. At 10 pm on the night of April 18, 1775, Revere received instructions from Dr. Joseph Warren to ride to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British approach. The war erupted and Revere went on to serve as lieutenant colonel in the Massachusetts State Train of Artillery and commander of Castle Island in Boston Harbor. Revere and his troops saw little action at this post, but they did participate in minor expeditions to Newport, Rhode Island and Worcester, Mass. Revere's rather undistinguished military career ended with the failed Penobscot expedition. Revere expanded his business interests in the years following the Revolution. He imported goods from England and ran a small hardware store until 1789. By 1788 he had opened a foundry which supplied bolts, spikes and nails for North End shipyards (including brass fittings for the U.S.S. Constitution), produced cannons and, after 1792, cast bells. One of his largest bells still rings in Boston's Kings Chapel. Concerned that the United States had to import sheet copper from England, Revere opened the first copper rolling mill in North America in 1801. He provided copper sheeting for the hull of the U.S.S. Constitution and the dome of the new Massachusetts State House in 1803. Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., the descendent of Revere's rolling mill is best known for "Revereware" copper-bottomed pots and pans. Revereware is now, however, manufactured by another company. Revere's community and social involvements were extensive. As stated earlier he was a Freemason from 1760 to 1809 and held several offices in St. Andrew's and Rising States Lodges as well as the Massachusetts Grand Lodge. A member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, Revere also served as the association's first president. Founded in 1794, the group was an organization of artisans, and small businessmen who sought to improve the conditions under which their peers worked and aided members in "distressed" circumstances. In 1811, at the age of 76, Paul Revere retired and left his well-established copper business in the hand of his sons and grandsons. Revere seems to have remained healthy in his final years, despite the personal sorrow caused by the deaths of his wife Rachel and son Paul in 1813. Revere died of natural causes on May 10, 1818 at the age of 83, leaving five children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The son of an immigrant artisan, not born to wealth or inheritance, Revere died a modestly well-to-do businessman and a popular local figure of some note. An obituary in the Boston Intelligence commented, "seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable and useful." Paul Revere is buried in Boston's Granary Burying Ground. Here is a good link To Paul Reveres midnight ride. http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.shtml Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen Post #: 1

RE: You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 3/27/2011 10:53:12 AM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online The same picture but out-lined in red the ad placed by Paul Revere and Sons. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 2

RE: You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 3/27/2011 10:54:27 AM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online The ad in close.It is a simple small ad but its historical significance to me is facsinating. The Mr. quincy mentioned is none other John Quincy Adams who was elected as a Federalist to the U.S. Senate. He served from March 4, 1803, until 1808, when he broke with the Federalist Party. Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 3/27/2011 10:59:09 AM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 3

RE: You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 3/27/2011 11:04:09 AM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Paul Reveres Engraving The Boston Massacre. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 4

RE: You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 3/27/2011 11:36:10 AM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Here is a nice link in Pauls own words. http://www.americanrevolution.org/revere.html _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 5

RE: You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 3/31/2011 9:12:17 PM    coldwater diver   Posts: 185 Joined: 11/10/2006 From: MAINE Status: offline Steve I have always heard that this print was used for propaganda in that some of the fallen or injured were black, and that the crowd was peaceful. I have also read that the event happened at night. Thanks for the topic, and the info. keep em coming. P.S. I would have been giving those Brits a hard time as well if they were in my town. Kevin (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 6

RE: You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 4/2/2011 11:23:48 PM    mainedigger   Posts: 25 Joined: 9/13/2006 Status: offline I was always facinated by the american revoultion and early american history, growing up next to Concord mass. I am very familar with local history. One piece of history left out of the history books was Revere's famous ride wasn't his first. His first ride was to Portsmouth N.H. you can read the full story at http://www.seacoastnh.com/Places_%26_Events/Brewster%27s_Rambles/Seizure_of_Arms_and_Powder_at_Fort_William_and_Mary/ Seizure of Arms and Powder at Fort William and Mary--The finale at Provincial Government in New Hampshire THE seizure of arms and powder at Fort William and Mary, (now Fort Constitution) in Portsmouth harbor, was the first capture made by the Americans in the war of the Revolution. We give the following extracts of letters of Gov. John Wentworth, communicated to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register of July, 1869, by Hon. John Wentworth of Chicago. In a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated "Portsmouth, 20th Dec. 1774," Gov. Wentworth says: "On Tuesday, the 13th instant in the afternoon, one Paul Revere arrived express with letters from some of the leaders in Boston to Mr. Samuel Cutts, merchant of this town. Reports were soon circulated that the Fort at Rhode Island had been dismantled, and the Gunpowder and other military stores removed up to Providence, and an Extract of the circular letter directing the seizure of gunpowder was printed in a Boston Newspaper of the 12th in consequence, as I have been informed, of the said letters having been communicated to the House of Assembly at Rhode Island. And it was also falsely given out that Troops were embarking at Boston to come and take possession of William and Mary Castle in this Harbour. These rumors soon raised an alarm in the town; and, although I did not expect that the people would be so audacious as to make any attack on the castle, yet I sent orders to the captain at the Fort to be upon his guard. On Wednesday, the 14th, about 12 o'clock, news was brought to me that a Drum was beating about the town to collect the Populace together in order to go and take away the Gunpowder and dismantled the Fort. I immediately sent the Chief Justice of the Province to warn them from engaging in such an attempt. He went to them, where they were collected in the centre of the town, near the townhouse, explained to them the nature of the offense they proposed to commit, told them it was not short of Rebellion, and intreated them to desist from it and disperse. But all to no purpose. They went to the Island; and, being joined there by the inhabitants of the towns of Newcastle and Rye, formed in all a body of about four hundred men, and the Castle being in too weak a condition for defence, (as I have in former letters explained to your Lordship,) they forced their entrance, in spite of Captain Cochrane, who defended it as long as he could; but, having only the assistance of five men, their numbers overpowered him. After they entered the Fort, they seized upon the Captain, triumphantly gave three Huzzas, and hauled down the King's colours. They then put the captain and men under confinement, broke open the Gunpowder magazine, and carried off about 100 Barrels of Gunpowder, but discharged the Captain and men from their confinement before their departure. On Thursday, the 15th, in the morning, a Party of men came from the country accompanied by Mr. [Gen. John] Sullivan, one of the New Hampshire Delegates to the Congress, to take away the Cannon from the Fort also. Mr. Sullivan declared that he had taken pains to prevail upon them to return home again; and said, as there was no certain intelligence of troops being coming to take possession of the Castle, he would still use his utmost endeavors to disperse them. While the town was thus full of men, a committee from them came to me to solicit for pardon or a suspension of prosecution against the persons who took away the Gunpowder. I told them I could not promise them any such thing; but, if they dispersed and restored the Gunpowder, which I earnestly exhorted them to do, I said I hoped His Majesty may be thereby induced to consider it an alleviation of the offence. They parted from me, in all appearance, perfectly disposed to follow the advice I had given them; and having proceeded directly to the arrest of their associates, they all publickly voted, about five o'clock in the afternoon, near the Town House, to return home; which it was thought they would have done, and it also was further expected that the gunpowder would have been restored by the morning. But the people, instead of dispersing, went to the Castle in the night, headed by Mr. Sullivan, and took away sixteen pieces of cannon, about sixty muskets and other military stores, and brought them to the out Borders of the town. On Friday morning, the 16th, Mr. [Nathaniel] Folsom, the other delegate, came to town that morning, with a great number of armed men, who remained in Town as a guard till the flow of the tide in the evening when the cannon were sent in Gondolas of the River into the country, and they all dispersed without having done any personal injury to any body in the town. They threatened to return again in order to dismantle the fort entirely, and to carry off or destroy the remaining heavy cannon, (about seventy pieces,) and also to seize upon the Province Treasury, all of which there was reasonable ground to fear they would do, after what they had already done; but, on the Gunpowder's being taken away, I wrote to General Gage and Admiral Graves for assistance to restrain the boisterous temper of the people; upon which the Admiral ordered the armed ships Canceaux and Scarborough here, and they arrived (the former the 17th and the latter on the 19th) in time to prevent the further dismantling of the fort." (in reply to coldwater diver) Post #: 7

RE: You might have heard of this gentlemen. - 4/3/2011 12:45:27 AM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: online Thanks Scott,that was a great article.Paul was a heckava guy a true American, and he never knew it ,he just did what he felt was correct.A true renaissance man much ahead of his time. _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to mainedigger) Post #: 8

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