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CHAPTEE VI 



PAUL EEVERE 



jAUL REVERE, born in Boston on January 8, 

 1735, was descended from an honourable Huguenot 



The Rivoires JL family — the Rivoires of Romagnieu. His father, 

 Apollos Rivoire, came to Boston from the Island of 

 Guernsey, when he was a lad of thirteen, and was set to 

 learn the goldsmith's trade as apprentice to John Coney. 

 After he had established himself in the business of a gold 

 and silversmith, he married Deborah Hichborn ; and the 

 third child of this union was Paul Revere, craftsman, 

 artist and patriot. 



Early Life Rcvcrc rcceivcd his education at the famous old ' ' North 



Grammar School," which stood on North Bennett Street. 

 After leaving school he entered his father's shop as an 

 apprentice. He possessed a natural taste for drawing, 

 and became very skillful in the use of the graver ; exe- 

 cuting most of the embellishments on the silverware then 



Artist En- manufactured in Boston. Many are the cups, spoons, 

 mugs, pitchers, tankards, and other articles of beautiful 

 patterns, made by him, and still owned by our New Eng- 

 land families ; some are now in every day use ; all are 

 treasured relics. If not as famous or gifted as Cellini, 

 abundant monuments remain to prove that Revere was 

 also an artist, as praiseworthy for the beauty and grace 

 of his artistic creations as for their excellent handiwork. 

 Long practice in the successful embellishment of silver- 

 ware caused him to learn the art of engraving on copper- 

 plate, entirely self-taught ; and numerous specimens of 

 his handiwork in this line are still in existence, treasured 

 memorials of a skillful and patriotic hand. Many of his 

 pictures were political caricatures, and engravings of his- 



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