With her Paul had eight more children, a total of sixteen whose names were Joshua, John, Joseph, Lucy, Harriet, John, Maria, and John. Lucy, John, and John all died before they were two years old. John, Maria, Harriet, and Joseph all lived to be from sixty to ninety years of age, while Joshua died at age twenty-seven. Much later on June 26, 1813, Rachel died at the age of sixty-eight1. 1 In 1773, Paul Revere defiantly took part in the famous Boston Teas Party. In this, many colonists dressed as Indians and dumped over 46 tons of British East India Company’s tea into the Boston harbor to protest the major taxation of tea by the British. Paul Revere was a silversmith by trade, this included his making of many surgical instruments, silverware, teeth, and engraved copper plates. Because he was a master of his trade, this allowed him to be able connect with both the artisans and intellectuals of his community and those participating in the rebellion against the