Rewind: February 1, 2026

“Paul Revere – In Warren County?”

YES!

Collections manager Tom Lynch found the following information on Paul Revere and the time spent in the area that was published in Frank Leslie’s Weekly in 1902.  

Paul Revere on a 1756 Expedition

to Crown Point

     Paul Revere came from a noble Huguenot family that fled during the French persecutions to the island of Guernsey, whence the father of Paul, a goldsmith by trade, came to Boston. The son was trained in the same business as the father and became an acknowledged expert. He was imbued also, from his youth, with the martial spirit and the love of freedom, and distinguished himself as a young man in the expedition of 1756 sent to capture Crown Point from the French. and was afterward. appointed a lieutenant of artillery and stationed at Fort Edward, near Lake George. Later he became the leading actor in the revolt against British rule, and in this capacity helped to heave overboard the tea from the ships in Boston harbor. In 1774, Revere, in association with about thirty other men, formed a secret society for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers around Boston and detecting the intrigues of the Tories, such information as they obtained being communicated, by agreement, to John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other patriot leaders. It was while acting in this capacity that Revere detected the designs of the British on Concord and undertook his famous ride.

     After the British had evacuated Boston, Revere was made major of a regiment of artillery and afterward lieutenant-colonel. After the war he resumed the business of a goldsmith and subsequently erected a foundry for casting church bells and bronze cannon. In 1801 he extended his business operations still further by building a large plant at Canton, Mass. for rolling copper, which was carried down to recent years by the Revere Copper Company. In these enterprises Revere became wealthy and influential and figured prominently in the charitable and philanthropic societies of Boston, both as an organizer and a munificent contributor.

Publication: Frank Leslie’s Weekly
Date: APRIL 24, 1902