t by this Congress to Philadelphia,
to obtain information respecting the manufacture of gunpowder, and on
his return was able, simply from having seen the process, to construct a
mill, which was soon in successful operation. Revere was an active
patriot during the whole of the struggle for Independence. He was one of
those who executed, as well as planned, the daring scheme of destroying
the tea in Boston harbor, and was one of a club of young men, chiefly
mechanics, who watched the movements of the British troops in Boston. He
acted an important part in rousing the country around Boston on the
morning of the memorable nineteenth of April, 1775, an event worthily
commemorated in Longfellow's poem,--"Paul Revere's Ride." Revere had
served at Fort Edward, near Lake George, as a lieutenant of artillery,
in 1756, and after the evacuation of Boston, was commissioned major in
Crafts' artillery regiment, raised for the defence of the State, in
which he attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and remained in
service until the close of the war, after which he resumed his business
as a goldsmith. He was in the unfortunate Penobscot expedition, in 1779.
At a later period, he erected an air-furnace, in which he cast brass
cannon and church bells. He also erected extensive works at Canton, for
rolling copper and casting guns,--a business still carried on there by
his successors. In 1795 he assisted in laying the corner stone of the
State House, at Boston. At the time of his death he was actively
connected with many benevolent and useful institutions, and was the
first president of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association;
member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew's, in 1761, and grand master
of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in 1794-96.

[Illustration: Signature, Paul Revere]

JOSEPH ROBY

Resided in Prince Street, Boston, in 1807, but was living in Hanover,
N.H., in 1817.

[Illustration: Signature, Paul Revere

"Preserve union, and judge in all causes amicably and mildly, preferring
peace."--PAUL REVERE, 1795.]

JOHN RUSSELL

Was by trade a mason, and died in Boston, in 1778. His son, the
well-known journalist, Colonel Benjamin Russell, though only a
school-boy at the time, remembered seeing, through the window of the
wood-house, his father and Mr. Thomas Moore, his neighbor, besmearing
each other's faces with lampblack and red ochre.

[Illustration: Signature, John Russell]

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