It is located at 19 North Square, Boston, and it later became the oldest framed building in Boston. In those years they took possession of a property that was already a hundred years old (built in 1660) that became known as the Revere House. The next 16 years for Paul and Sarah were routine. In mid-summer of 1757, Paul married Sarah Orne (1736–1773). He and Sarah had eight children (a son, Paul, Jr. He returned to Boston and assumed the family business in 1757. He was commissioned a second lieutenant but did not stay long with the military. Paul was considered too young to accept the responsibilities of the family business and consequently enlisted in a provincial artillery regiment for the purpose of obtaining a steady income. Revere’s father, Apollos Rivoire arrived in Boston in 1715 and was apprenticed to a silversmith – John Coney.Īpollos and his wife had twelve children, Paul was the third and the eldest survivor of the twelve. Revere was born on New Year’s Day 1735 in the North End section of Boston, Massachusetts, the oldest of th e city’s residential neighborhoods. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned these words in 1860 (85 years after the event it recounts) to commemorate the heroic actions of a well-known Boston silversmith and patriot name Paul Revere. Thus begins one of America’s most famous poems.
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