Paul Revere Research Paper

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On January 1, 1735, Paul Revere was born to Apollos Riviore and Deborah Hichborn in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Apollos Riviore, emigrated from France alone at the age of thirteen and soon after, he began his goldsmith business. His mother, Deborah Hichborn, was a native of Boston. Paul was the eldest of his seven other siblings. Nineteen years later, Revere’s father died and Paul was left town take care of his family by taking over his father’s business4. In 1753, Paul revere married Sarah Orne. In 1758 they had their first child, Deborah and soon after the other seven children, Paul, Sarah, Mary, Frances, Mary, Elizabeth, and Isannah followed. Four of the children, Deborah, Sarah, Frances, and Elizabeth, died Between the ages of twenty-nine and thirty-nine while Paul Revere Jr and Mary lived to be fifty-three and eighty-three. Sarah and Paul bought their house together in The North …show more content…
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