Paul Revere's Ride (69 page)

Paul Revere’s Family

Elizabeth Grundy and Jayne Triber, “Paul Revere’s Children: Coming of Age in the New Nation,” unpublished essay, in the Paul Revere Memorial Association, adds biographies of Paul Revere, Jr., Joseph Warren Revere, Harriet Revere, and Maria Revere Balestier. Donald M. Nielsen, “The Revere Family,”
NEHGR
145 (1991): 291-316, corrects earlier studies.

Paul Revere: The Copley Portrait

Robert Dubuque, “The Painter and the Patriot: John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Paul Revere,”
Revere House Gazette
17 (1989): 1-5. Paulette Marie Kaskinen, “Artists, Craftsmen and Patriots: Social Pretensions and Propaganda in John Singleton Copley’s Portraiture,” unpub. master’s thesis, Univ. of Virginia, 1992.

Paul Revere: Huguenot Origins

Charles W. Baird,
History of the Huguenot Emigration to America,
2 vols. (New York, 1885; rpt. Baltimore, 1966); Jon Butler,
The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society
(Cambridge, Mass., 1983); Patrick M. Leehey, “The Huguenot Communities in New England: Boston, New Oxford, Narragansett and Dresden, Maine,” unpublished ms., 1988, Paul Revere Memorial Association.

Paul Revere’s Business Activities

A Brief Sketch of the Business Life of Paul Revere (Taunton, 1928); Mark Bortman, “Paul Revere and Son and Their Jewish Correspondents,”
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
43 (1953-54): 199—229; Clarence S. Brigham,
Paul Revere’s Engravings
(Worcester, 1954); Kathryn C. Buhler, “The Ledgers of Paul Revere,”
Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin,
June 1936, pp. 38-45; Renee Ernay, “The Revere Furnace, 1787-1800,” unpub. master’s thesis, University of Delaware, 1989; Ruth L. Friedman, “Artisan to Entrepreneur: The Business Life of Paul Revere,” unpublished research paper, Paul Revere Memorial Association Library, 1978; John J. Kebabian, “Paul Revere and His Water Dam,”
CEAIA
30 (1977): 12—13; Maurer, Maurer, “Copper Bottoms for the United States Navy, 1794—1803,”
The United States Naval Institute Proceedings
17 (June 1945); Edward Moreno, “Patriotism and Profit: The Copper Mills at Canton,” Zannieri. Leehey,
et al, Paul Revere—Artisan, Businessman, and Patriot,
95-116; James A. Mulholland,
A History of Metals in Colonial America
(Birmingham, 1981); Arthur H. Nichols, “The Early Bells of Paul Revere,”
NEHGR
48 (April 1904): 151-57; Arthur H. Nichols, “The Bells of Paul and Joseph W. Revere,”
EIHC
47 (Oct. 1911): 293-316; Jane Ross, “Paul Revere—Patriot Engraver,”
Early American Life
6 (April 1975): 36-37; Edward Stickney and Evelyn Stickney.
The Bells of Paul Revere, His Sons and Grandsons
(Bedford, Mass., 1976).

Paul Revere’s Silver

A leading authority is Kathryn C. Buhler, who has given us
American Silver
(Cleveland, 1950);
American Silver, 1655—1825, in the Museum of Fine Arts.
2 vols. (Boston, 1972);
American Silver from the Colonial Period Through the Early Republic in the Worcester Art Museum
(Worcester, 1979); “Master and Apprentice: Some Relationships in New England Silversmithing,”
Antiques
68 (1955): 456—60; “Paul Revere, Patriot and Silversmith,”
Discovering
Antiques
57 (1971): 1350-54; and
Paul Revere, Goldsmith 1735—1818
(Boston, n.d.). Louisa Dresser, “American and English Silver Given in Memory of Frederick William Paine, 1866—1935,”
Worcester Art Museum Annual
2 (1936—37): 89—98; Deborah A. Federhen, “From Artisan to Entrepreneur: Paul Revere’s Silver Shop in Operation,” in Zannieri, Leehey,
et al., Paul Revere—Artisan, Businessman and Patriot,
65—93; Morrison H. Heckscher and Leslie Greene Bowman,
American Rococo: Elegance in Ornament
(New York, 1992); Janine E. Skerry, “The Revolutionary Revere: A Critical Assessment of the Silver of Paul Revere,” Zannieri, Leehey,
et al., Paul Revere—Artisan, Businessman and Patriot,
41-63.

Paul Revere’s Military Service

Two accounts of the Penobscot Expedition are Russell Bourne, “The Penobscot Fiasco.”
American Heritage,
Oct. 1974, pp. 28—33, 100—101; William M. Fowler, Jr., “Disaster in Penobscot Bay,”
Harvard Magazine,
July-Aug. 1979, pp. 26-31. Chester B. Kevitt,
General Solomon Lovell and the Penobscot Expedition, 1779
(Weymouth, 1976), reproduces many relevant documents. James S. Leamon,
Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine
(Amherst, Mass., 1993), includes an excellent bibliography. Linda Webster, “The Penobscot Expedition: A Study in Military Organization,” is an unpublished senior thesis, Bates College, 1983; a copy is in the Paul Revere Memorial Association.

Paul Revere’s Masonic Activities

Edith J. Steblecki,
Paul Revere and Freemasonry
(Boston, 1985), is the best study of its subject, with much valuable data in its appendices and a good bibliography; the same author also has published “Fraternity, Philanthropy and Revolution: Paul Revere and Freemasonry,” in Zannieri, Leehey,
et al., Paul Revere—Artisan, Businessman and Patriot,
117—47. Other works in a large literature include: Harry Carr,
Six Hundred Years of Craft Ritual
(Grand Lodge of Missouri, 1977); and
The Constitutions of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons Containing Their History, Charges, Addresses and Collected and Digested from Their Old Records, Faithful Traditions and Lodge Books. For the Use of Masons to Which Are Added the History of Masonry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Constitution, Laws and Regulations of Their Grand Lodge Together with a Large Collection of Songs, Epilogues, etc.
(Worcester, 1792).

Paul Revere’s Horse

William Ensign Lincoln,
Some Descendants of Stephen Lincoln, Edward Larkin, Thomas Oliver, Michael Pearce, Robert Wheaton, George Burrill, John Porter, John Ayer
(New York, 1930), is the nearest thing to a primary source. Also helpful is Patrick M. Leehey, “What
was
the Name of Paul Revere’s Horse?”
Revere House Gazette
16 (1965): 5; and
idem,
“A Few More Words on ‘Paul Revere’s Horse,’”
ibid.
17 (1989): 6.