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 University of California Berkeley 
 
 A Gift of the Hearst Corporation 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
Of this book there have been printed one 
 
 hundred and thirty-five copies on Van 
 
 Gelder paper and thirty-jive copies 
 
 on extra quality Imperial "Japan 
 
 paper made by the Imperial 
 
 Government Mill 
 
 The right is reserved to print a few extra 
 copies of the illustrations in this 
 ) none of which, how- 
 ever, will be offered 
 for sale 
 
cTlir Bami0crtpt of tins Book toa0 
 complete!) in August, nineteen 
 tjunUrea and one, 
 printing toad fi'msljeD 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS 
 ENGRAVING 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
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 NEW YORK 
 
 CHARLES SCRIBXER'S soxs 
 
COPYRIGHT, 1901 
 BY WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS 
 
tltir BB.LL W CANNON Fo0HDr,<rt tit 
 North Part o/ BOSTON, 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 O winnow the wheat from the 
 chaff and establish the absolute 
 truth, in all its details, of any 
 historical statement is well nigh an im- 
 possible task. It is hardly too much to 
 say that no event in history has ever been 
 reported quite correctly, even at the time 
 of its occurrence, and as years and cen- 
 turies pass by, errors accumulate around 
 and cling to the story as do barnacles to 
 the bottom of a ship. 
 
 No sooner had I yielded upon what I 
 considered good authority to the belief 
 that the State Treasurer's note herein re- 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 produced was engraved by Revere, than I 
 was confronted with one almost exactly 
 the same in appearance signed by jf. 
 M. Furnass, who is said to have been a 
 nephew of Nathaniel Hurd. The only 
 variation in it from the one not signed, and 
 ascribed to Revere, is a slight difference in 
 the ornamental work in the left-hand 
 border. I am now, however, in possession 
 of other of these notes, in which, while the 
 printed matter remains the same, the en- 
 graved borders and head-lines differ wide- 
 ly; furthermore, I have been shown an 
 impression of the unsigned note in which 
 the engraving was almost entirely worn 
 away. I have consequently come to the 
 conclusion that the borders and head-band 
 of the plate were necessarily re-engraved 
 a number of times, as the copper would 
 show signs of wear more quickly than 
 the type metal. If Furnass engraved the 
 unsigned and presumably the original 
 plate, why should he not have signed it as 
 he did the others ? Therefore, albeit posi- 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 tive proof is lacking that Revere engraved 
 the unsigned note, the circumstantial evi- 
 dence in the case is in his favor, and I 
 am disposed to accord him the benefit of 
 the doubt. 
 
 By one of those freaks of fortune of 
 which the collector is occasionally the 
 sport, the following amusing letter, relat- 
 ive to the subject of which these pages 
 treat, fluttered into my hands immediate- 
 ly after the book had gone to press, as did 
 also the copy of the Columbian Centmel 
 containing PAUL REVERE & SON'S Bell 
 and Cannon Foundry advertisement, with 
 a reduced reproduction of which this 
 preface concludes. w. L. A. 
 
 Cambridge 2jd July 1832. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 I write this to enquire whether you, or Mr. * * * 
 or both, have put upon paper the particulars as far 
 as you know, or can know of Paul Revere ; and if so, to 
 send them to me by way of foundation stones, joice, boards, 
 shingles and paint for the snug structure contemplated. 
 I wish to have distinctly written the original name of P. 
 R. as his father wrote it ; for many of the old Hugonots, 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 or their silly descendants, varied the spelling so as in some 
 cases to render it doubtful whether they were of the same 
 stock ; in Newport, Bodoine was altered to Bow down, 
 and Ami'e to Almy as Jack Anvil, a journeyman black- 
 smith, when he became rich, was John Anville, Esq\ 
 So Snelling may have been originally Smelling. / wish 
 to have particulars of P. Revere as an ingenious and la- 
 borious mechanic or artizan. I know all that is needful 
 to be known of him as an active partizan in " the good 
 old cause" I want facts of his industry ingenuity. Was 
 he, or was he not a Masonic officer of rank ?as Grand 
 master? But this is of less importance than his experi- 
 ments and labors in cannon founding and above all in 
 Bell founding. Have you any treatises on either of these 
 arts ? I want these things sent to me, or rather brought 
 to me by one or both of you. In a word bring your 
 straw, and you shall have brick, and don't put it off be- 
 yond Thursday. 
 
 Yours with impatience, 
 
 Paul Revere & Sort, 
 
 /f lt> tlLf. W CrfAWOAT Fowt.r. Ik 
 MM f. H .1 BOSTON. 
 
 f~> ASt $LLS. ol all fixes i eery kind 
 
 V" of Brif. (JRDJMNCP, and t?*rj kiodol 
 C.erf I?.,!./* JHIP5, &c.< ihftaif -<* i 
 M4i.uf.-aur. COPPER into S.t.Tl. tAttt. 
 
 **p, by the**, ewry HW'of 
 
 ibct of Church '*<] Ship Bcllv.of dif- 
 
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 - Ik 
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PACE 
 
 i The BOSTON MASSACRE, per- 
 petrated on March the 5th, 
 
 1 770 Facing title 
 
 Printed in colors. 
 
 Photogravure, after the original engraving 
 by Paul Revere. Size of the original en- 
 graving, including the inscription, 9|x8| 
 inches. 
 
 ii TITLE-PAGE 
 
 Designed and engraved on copper by E. 
 Davis French in the style classed by book- 
 plate collectors as JACOBEAN. 
 
 in Portrait of PAUL REVERE 
 After the painting by Gilbert 
 Stuart 
 
 Copied by permission, after the copper- 
 plate by S. A. Schoff, published in the 
 Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic As- 
 sociation Proceedings of 1854. 
 
 ix 
 
 vn 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 iv Silver Teapot, manufactured by 
 
 Revere 1 1 
 
 One half the size of the original. 
 
 v BURIED WITH HIM BY BAP- 
 TISM 15 
 
 Engraved by Revere. 
 Size of the original 6x4 T 3 inches, in- 
 cluding title. 
 
 vi Massachusetts State Treasurer's 
 
 Note 18 
 
 Border and headline said to have been 
 
 engraved by Revere. 
 
 Size of the original 10^x4^ inches. 
 
 vii Continental Paper Money . .21 
 
 Printed by Hall and Sellers. 
 Same size as the original. 
 
 viii The Able Doctor; or, America 
 
 Swallowing the Bitter Draught 3 3 
 
 Engraved by Revere for the Royal Amer- 
 ican Magazine. 
 Size of the original 5^x4 inches. 
 
 ix A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF BOS- 
 TON WITH SEVERAL SHIPS OF 
 
 WAR IN THE HARBOUR . . 43 
 
 Engraved by Revere for the Royal Amer- 
 ican Magazine, 1774. 
 Size of the original io|x6| inches. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PACE 
 
 x Title-Page to " The New Eng- 
 land Psalm Singer or Ameri- 
 can Chorister" . . . .61 
 
 Engraved by Revere. 
 
 Size of the original 6^x5 1 inches. 
 
 xi "The Mitred Minuet . . . . 72 
 
 Engraved for the Royal American Maga- 
 zine by Revere. 
 Size of the original 6|\3-| inches. 
 
 xii A Conference held between some 
 Indian Chiefs and Colonel 
 Bouquet, in the Year 1764. . 75 
 
 Engraved by Revere for the Royal Amer- 
 ican Magazine. 
 Slightly reduced from the original. 
 
 xiii Book-Plate of DAVID GREENE 79 
 
 Engraved by Revere. 
 Same size as the original. 
 
 XIV (^ ^iew of Q)a6tle 'William by 
 
 aoo6ton in < TOew Snglanct . 93 
 From an old copper-plate engraving. 
 Size of the original I2.lxi2 inches. 
 
 xv Copy of the Pen and Ink Plan, 
 Made by Paul Revere, of the 
 Scene of the Massacre of 
 March 5th, 1770 .... 99 
 
 Engraved on copper by Sidney L. Smith. 
 Size of the original 12^x8 inches. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 xvi Title-Page of Dr. Benjamin 
 Church's Oration on the 
 BOSTON MASSACRE . . .105 
 
 Boston, 1773. 
 
 xvii The BOSTON MASSACRE . .109 
 
 Frontispiece to the Boston Edition (1770) 
 of the " Short Narrative" 
 Size of the original 5^ x^ inches, exclus- 
 ive of the lettering. 
 
 xviii An Indian Gazette . . . .144 
 
 From the illustration in the Royal Amer- 
 ican Magazine. 
 Size of the original 7^x6|. inches. 
 
 THE HEAD-BANDS, TAIL-PIECES 
 AND INITIAL LETTERS 
 
 The head-bands and tail-pieces were 
 designed by Sidney L. Smith and engraved 
 by him on copper. The initial letters to 
 the chapters in what is known as Old 
 Colonial engrossing hand were also drawn 
 by Mr. Smith. 
 
 i LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS : Head- 
 band ix 
 
 Seal of the Massachusetts Charitable 
 Mechanic Association, of which Re- 
 vere was one of the founders and first 
 President. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 ii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: Tail- 
 piece xiv 
 
 Boston Tea Party, in which Revere is 
 said to have taken part. 
 
 in CHAPTER i : Head-band. . 5 
 
 Paul Revere's Coat-of-arms. 
 
 iv CHAPTER i : Tail-piece. . 29 
 
 The Midnight Ride. 
 
 v CHAPTER n : Head-band. . 30 
 The Silversmith. 
 
 vi CHAPTER n : Tail-piece. . 51 
 The part of Revere's Harvard Col- 
 lege plate that now exists. 
 
 vii CHAPTER in : Head-band. . 52 
 
 The Engraver. 
 
 vin CHAPTER in : Tail-piece. . 66 
 
 Revere's house at North End, Boston, 
 as it now appears. 
 
 ix CHAPTER iv : Head-band. . 67 
 
 The Public Spirit. 
 
 x CHAPTER iv : Tail-piece. . 90 
 
 The Liberty Tree. 
 
 xi CHAPTER v: Head-band. . 91 
 
 War. 
 
 xii CHAPTER v: Tail-piece. .102 
 The Mulatto Crispus Attucks. 
 
 xiii 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 xiii CHAPTER vi : Head-band. 
 The Man of Affairs. 
 
 xiv CHAPTER vi : Tail-piece. 
 Finis. 
 
 xv APPENDIX : Ornamental. 
 
 PAGE 
 103 
 
 I2 4 
 
 " With the exception of the head-band to Chapter I, 
 which is a free copy of Revere's work on book-plates, 
 an attempt has been made in the head- and tail-pieces 
 to recall the side of contemporary French work that 
 Revere took as a model for his ornamental engrav- 
 ing, either direct or through English imitations." 
 
 Sidney L. Smith. 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS 
 ENGRAVING 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 VERYONE familiar with the 
 Annals of our Revolutionary War 
 will concede that one of the most 
 interesting and romantic characters of 
 those dark days in our history that " tried 
 men's souls" is that of the patriot, soldier, 
 silversmith, copper-plate engraver, mer- 
 chant, brass founder* and sheet-copper- 
 roller, dentist, picture frame designer and 
 manufacturer, die sinker, Grand Master 
 Mason and confidential agent of the State 
 
 * After the peace Revere erected an air furnace in which he 
 cast cannon and church bells, and a number of the latter are 
 still pealing forth their melodious notes upon the New England 
 
 5 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 of Massachusetts Bay, the "Mercury of the 
 Revolution" Colonel Paul Revere. He 
 was decidedly a man of action, who in 
 his time played many parts and in all his 
 manifold undertakings achieved success. 
 In the words of one of his biographers, 
 " He prospered, accumulated by a long life 
 of industry and economy a competency 
 in the way of property, and educated a 
 large family of children who venerated 
 the memory of such a father." 
 
 The following fac-simile of an advertise- 
 ment in the Boston AMERICAN HERALD 
 of Monday, February 6, 1786, shows the 
 diversified character of the mercantile busi- 
 
 Sabbath air. The business card of PAUL REVERE & SONS as 
 casters of bells and brass cannon will be found reproduced in E. 
 H. Goss's "Life of Revere," Vol. II, page 557. 
 
 One of Revere' s church bells was recently offered for sale by 
 the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston and quickly 
 found a purchaser. It had, so the advertisement states, a his- 
 tory, for it used to summon the people of the Old North End 
 to worship when it was the "court part " of the town. It was 
 in the tower of the old First Church and bears this inscription : 
 " The First Church, Cast in Boston in I?g2 by Paul Revere." 
 The price asked was #500. 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 ness which Revere conducted, after the 
 War of Independence, which had enlisted 
 his energies and occupied his time for seven 
 
 PAUL REVERE, 
 
 WOULD refpeflfully inform his Cufto- 
 mers and the Publick, 
 
 that be has REMOVED 
 
 from the South Part of the Town, oppofne 
 Liberty-Pole, to Dock -Square, in the Store 
 adjoining Mr. JOSEPH BUSH, near the 
 Market. 
 
 Where lye has for Sale> 
 
 A general Aflbrtment of 
 Hard-Ware GOODS 
 
 Confiding of 
 
 Pewter* Brafs, Copper, 
 
 Ironmongery, Plated, Jappaned, and Cutlery 
 WAKES ;. Files, Tools, &c. for Gold fmkhs, 
 Jewellers, Clock and Watch -Makers, Chapes 
 andTongnes, blue Melting- P6ta from No. i 
 to ao, Crucibles, very neat Scale Beams 3* 
 Inches long with hox Ends; Willard's Patent 
 Jacks, LookmK-Ct(aflca &c. &c. 
 
 t& The GOLDSMITH'S BUSINESS, fo 
 
 there, carried on in all its Branches ] all Kinds 
 of Plate made in the neweft Tafte, and finiih- 
 ed in the neateft Manjrer. 
 
 Conftant Attendance given, and the fmaileft 
 Favours gracefully acknowledged. 
 
 long weary years, was over, and peace had 
 settled once more upon the land he served 
 with such ability, remarkable versatility, 
 and unselfish devotion. 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 In the BOSTON INDEPENDENT CHRON- 
 ICLE and UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER * of 
 Thursday, January i, 1784, we find two 
 more of Paul Revere's business advertise- 
 ments. In one he announces that he has 
 imported in the ROSAMOND, Captain Love, 
 and HOPE, Captain Peirfon [in addition to 
 his former stock] "A very elegant aflbrt- 
 ment of PLATED WARE," consisting of 
 "Tea-Pots, plain and chafed" and sundry 
 other articles of domestic use. The list 
 closes with a " Tea-Caddy with Lacks [?] 
 and Candlefticks, Also an Aflbrtment of 
 London Pewter." 
 
 In his second card Revere offers for sale 
 at a very low advance over the cost of im- 
 portation, a great variety of such goods as 
 usually form the stock in trade of a general 
 
 * The rough cut which adorns the top of this four-page 12x18- 
 inch newspaper is thought to have been engraved by Revere. It 
 represents a soldier with a drawn sword held upright in his dex- 
 ter hand. In the left a scroll inscribed with the word Indepen- 
 dence. Above the figure on a ribbon is the motto, "Appeal to 
 Heaven," all within an ornamental border. 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 store in a country town, and this advertise- 
 ment likewise concludes with a notice 
 that " ne Gold- and Silver- Smith's Bufinefs 
 is carried on in all its Branches." Revere 
 evidently believed in the efficacy of a free 
 and full advertisement of his wares and 
 various occupations. 
 
 It will be observed that Revere here 
 announces an importation of plated ware. 
 If, as has been suggested, he was also an 
 importer of silverware, a notice to that 
 effect should also appear. Some other 
 newspaper of the day which I have not 
 had the good fortune to see, may however, 
 contain such notification, so that its ab- 
 sence from the journals I have quoted, can- 
 not be taken as conclusive evidence upon 
 this point. At all events, we may rest as- 
 sured that such imported silverware, if 
 such there were, never received the silver- 
 smith's stamp of Paul Revere. 
 
 We learn from Allen's American Bio- 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 graphical Dictionary that Revere or Ri- 
 voire as the name was written by his an- 
 cestors in France, and also for some time 
 after they had emigrated to this country, 
 was of Huguenot descent, and was born 
 in Boston, where he died in May, 1 8 1 8, 
 at the age of 83. He was his father's 
 eldest son and was brought up to the 
 paternal trade of gold- and silver-smith. 
 It is said that he engraved not only the 
 graceful designs we find upon the silver 
 plate which bears the coveted mark of 
 P. REVERE or simply REVERE as it oc- 
 casionally appears but also the wreaths, 
 garlands and medallions which ornament 
 many of the cups, spoons, tankards, sal- 
 vers, tureens, teapots and porringers manu- 
 factured by other Boston silversmiths of 
 the period. Thus, by a natural process of 
 evolution, he acquired, as many a self-taught 
 engraver before and since his time has done, 
 a knowledge rudimentary, it is true of 
 the art of chalcography. 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 One of Revere's first engravings is re- 
 puted to have been a portrait of his friend 
 and spiritual guide, ^ke d&ev'd Jonathan 
 Sffiaykew, 3). > gattot of the ^eAt 
 @kutck in S&oAton. This portrait, it is as- 
 serted, was prefixed to one of the doctor's 
 numerous printed sermons ; but I have 
 been unable to verify this statement by 
 ocular proof. The New York Historical 
 Society possesses a number of Dr. May- 
 hew's sermons in the original editions, 
 but none of them contains this alleged 
 portrait, and Mr. Sidney L. Smith of Bos- 
 ton, one of the last and best of our steel- and 
 copper-plate engravers, whom I regard as 
 an authority upon Paul Revere and his en- 
 graving, writes me that he can discover 
 no trace of its whereabouts : so that I have 
 grown sceptical in regard to its existence 
 and a little weary in the chase for this elu- 
 sive will-o'-the-wisp of an effigy of the 
 eminent New England divine. 
 
 It is in the year 1765 that, aside from 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 this portrait of Dr. Mayhew, we first hear 
 of Revere as an engraver. In this year 
 he engraved the music score in a " Collec- 
 tion of Psalm Tunes" published by him 
 and Josiah Flagg in Fish Street, at the 
 North End of Boston. Then followed a 
 succession of engravings which embraced 
 a wide variety of subjects "Harmonies 
 for Singing Schools" embellished with 
 quaint frontispieces, Caricatures, Allegori- 
 cal pieces,* Masonic, and other Certifi- 
 cates, Bill-heads, Seals, Book and Maga- 
 zine illustrations, and Continental paper 
 money. "When, in the struggle for in- 
 dependence, the province of Massachu- 
 setts resorted to a paper currency and ac- 
 cepted bankruptcy as a part of the price 
 to be paid for civil liberty," j- Revere not 
 
 * " Buried with Him by Baptism." The copy of this rare 
 allegorical engraving which is here reproduced, was sold in Dr. 
 Charles E. Clark's sale, Boston, January, 1901, for $31.00, 
 and is now in the possession of Mr. Edwin B. Holden, of New 
 York. 
 
 j- Bryant's Popular History of the United States. 
 14 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 only engraved the plates, but made the 
 press and printed the promissory notes of 
 the State of Massachusetts Bay, as well as 
 some of the earliest of the Bills of Credit 
 authorized by the Continental Congress, 
 and they are far more creditable examples 
 of the arts of engraving and typography 
 than are the 3^ x 2^ inch Continental 
 notes "it was death to counterfeit" which 
 David Hall (Dr. Franklin's old business 
 associate) and William Sellers, his partner, 
 supplied to the Assembly of Pennsylvania 
 as well as Revere's native State at a later 
 period. By the year 1780 Hall and Sellers 
 appear to have become the Congressional 
 printers, and were manufacturing a large 
 proportion of the paper money of the sev- 
 eral United Colonies. The border and 
 headline of the Massachusetts State Treas- 
 urer s Note, here reproduced, is, however, 
 said to have been engraved by Revere. It 
 is made payable to, and endorsed on the 
 back by him. The body of the note is evi- 
 
 19 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 dently in letter-press. It is 10% x 
 inches in size, and is printed on fairly 
 well-made paper. For the sake of com- 
 parison we have also reproduced both the 
 face and the reverse side of one of the 
 Continental notes turned out by the cele- 
 brated Philadelphia typographers. 
 
 Revere's military experience began when 
 "the continent was still young in the 
 study and practice of arms," in the war 
 of 1756, between England and France, 
 during which he held a lieutenantcy in 
 a Company of Artillery, in the expedition 
 against Crown Point, and was stationed 
 through the summer of that year at Fort 
 William Henry, on Lake George. He 
 returned to Boston, and was married in 
 1757,* and no other of war's alarms ap- 
 pears to have disturbed the even tenor of his 
 life until the conflict between Great Britain 
 
 * His first wife, Sarah Orne, died May 3, 1773, and in 
 October of the same year he married a Miss Rachel Walker, 
 of Boston. E. H. Goss's " Life of Revere," Vol. I, pages 
 109 to in. 
 
Bute of Mafacfyfetts-Bay. 
 
 No. . r/FEA^T DOLLARS^ 
 
 npH E Poffcflbr o] ;# xjfc * /* j*<ffl 
 
 TWENTY SpanHhVv* DOLLARS Jy theg 
 Thirty-firft Day of Dtnmktr t One Thoufand SeverfHua-^ 
 
 dred ad ligkty-fix, witk Intereft in like MoneyAjt thej 
 Rate offiviftr Ctntumftr Ax***t t by the State qffiafa- 
 cJmfitH'M^f t according to an Act of the LegiHaturej^if the 
 faid State, f tko Fiik Day of May, 1780. 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 and her North American colonies fore- 
 shadowed its approach. He was one of 
 the party which planned the destruction 
 of the tea in Boston Harbor, and a mem- 
 ber of the band disguised as " Mohawks" 
 whose praises have been sounded loud and 
 long in song and story, which, at sunset, 
 on the 29th of November, 1773, boarded 
 the three East India Company's tea ships 
 in the harbor, and in less than three hours 
 on that memorable night, broke open three 
 hundred and forty-two chests of the " best 
 Bobea" and emptied their contents into 
 the waters of the Bay. 
 
 cargo came ! ana toljo coula blame 
 ei?eu tlje tea, 
 
 , riirst bv clirst, let Uoum tin* same 
 1 mo tlir laughing sra ? 
 /-or UJliat auail tlir plough or sail 
 <&r lanu or life, if freeoom fail? " 
 
 After the British evacuation, Revere 
 became a lieutenant-colonel in a regiment 
 of artillery raised for the defence of his 
 
 *3 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 native State, and he was one of the "up- 
 wards of thirty North-End citizens, chiefly 
 mechanics," who, in the winter of 1775, 
 formed themselves into a committee and 
 patrolled the streets of the " distressed town 
 of Boston" to watch the movements of the 
 Tories and the British forces. This little 
 band of patriots held their secret meetings 
 at the GREEN DRAGON TAVERN, in Union 
 Street, a famous hostelry in Revolutionary 
 times, much frequented by those whose 
 sympathies were on the side of the Col- 
 onies. 
 
 The story of the midnight ride of Paul 
 Revere from Charlestown to the "rude 
 bridge that arched the flood" at Concord 
 town where 
 
 " - once tlje embattled farmers 
 
 ftreo ttye sfyot IjearD round tjie toorU)," 
 has become, through Longfellow's lines* 
 as familiar to his countrymen as a house- 
 hold word. It had been arranged that 
 if the British troops sallied forth at 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 night by water, to seize and destroy the 
 guns, munitions and stores at Concord, 
 two lanterns would be shown as a signal 
 in the North Church * steeple. If they 
 went out by land, only one lantern was to 
 be displayed. 
 
 On Tuesday evening, April 18, 1775, 
 Dr. Joseph Warren, the ardent patriot, 
 who was destined within two short 
 months j- to lay down his life for his coun- 
 try on the brow of Bunker Hill, " the 
 first great martyr to the national cause," 
 discovered, in Boston, that the troops 
 were to be moved at once, and marched 
 to Lexington and Concord. He sent 
 in great haste for Revere, and besought 
 him to set off immediately for Lexington, 
 
 * The spire upon which the lanthorns were hung is, accord- 
 ing to Justin Winsor, a matter of dispute, " Revere' s North 
 Church being considered by some to have been the Church in 
 North Square, Boston, pulled down by the British during the 
 siege, and by others the present Christ Church, and it is upon 
 the latter that the tourist to-day is shown an inscription identi- 
 fying that building with the event." 
 
 j- Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 where were "King" Hancock and Samuel 
 Adams, to "acquaint them of the move- 
 ments." This Revere did, first calling, as 
 his own narrative* relates, upon a friend 
 and desiring him to set the prearranged 
 signals. It is contended by some that the 
 lanterns were displayed by sexton Robert 
 Newman, but Revere in his Narrative is 
 silent upon this point, and the honor of 
 having performed the hazardous service of 
 "hanging out the signals for the guidance 
 of Major Paul Revere on the night of the 
 1 8th of April, A. D. 1775," is stoutly 
 claimed for Revere's intimate friend Cap- 
 tain John Pulling, a merchant of Boston, 
 a member of the Committee of Safety and 
 a vestry-man of Christ Church, j- 
 
 Crossing the Charles River, "a little to 
 the eastward where the 'Somerset* lay," in 
 
 * In 1798 Revere wrote a letter to the Corresponding Secre- 
 tary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, containing remin- 
 iscences relating principally to the events of his ride on the night 
 of April 1 8, 1775. (Collections of the Society, First Series, 
 Vol. V.) This narrative is also copied in part in Dunlap's 
 Arts of Design, Vol. I, p. 150, and in full in the Worcester 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 a boat with muffled oars, manned by two 
 friends, Revere was landed on the Charles- 
 town side. Deacon John Larkin, a friend 
 of the cause, supplied him with a " very 
 good horse," the "night was very pleasant," 
 and at eleven o'clock, "when the lanterns 
 flashed forth their warning light," Revere 
 started on the eventful ride which, in Long- 
 fellow's poetical rendering of it in the 
 "Tales of a Wayside Inn," has given im- 
 mortal fame to the name of Paul Revere. 
 Long years ago Longfellow's ballad became 
 one of the special favorites of the school- 
 boy orator. Every Master Hopeful who 
 has reached the spouting age can recite 
 off-hand the stirring martial lines of Hal- 
 leek's "Marco Bozzaris" or Longfellow's 
 "Ride of Paul Revere," but they may 
 
 Magazine and Historical Journal, 1825 and 1826, from which 
 latter short-lived periodical (only 1 8 monthly parts were ever 
 issued) the copy in the Appendix is taken. 
 
 j- See the account of " Paul Revere's signal: " " The True 
 Story of the 'Signal Lanterns' in Christ Church, Boston," 
 in the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 1876-77, 
 pp. 164-169, by John Lee Watson, of Orange, N. J. 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 have grown faint in the memories of some 
 of us elder folk and they will bear repeti- 
 tion. We can allow space here, however, 
 only for the opening and closing lines of 
 Longfellow's noble poem. 
 
 Hebere's 
 
 ilisten, nt children, anD pou sljall tjear 
 <f the miDnigljt riDe of patil Ueucre, 
 t\)t eigljteentf) of #pril in >etoent;fii)e 
 a man is noto alibe 
 remembers tljat famous Da^ anD pear, 
 
 saiD to Ijis frienu, * 4 31f tlje Britislj marcfc 
 lano or sea from tlje toton tomigljt, 
 
 a lantern aloft in tye belfry arclj 
 f tlje jjiortl) Cljurclj totoer as a signal ligljt 
 <Dne t if bv land, anD ttoo, if bv sea ; 
 0nD 51 on tlje opposite sftore toill be, 
 to riDe anD spreaD tlir alarm 
 
 eber^ ^piDDlesejc tillage anD farm, 
 5For tlje country-folk to be up anD to arm," 
 
 * * 
 28 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 through djr nigbt roDe lentil Urticrr ; 
 00 tijrougl) tljr nigijt toent Ijist crp of alarm 
 
 etoen> $)iDDle0eu tillage anD form, 
 a cr^ of Defiance ano not of fear, 
 twice in ttje Darfenc 00, a knock at tlje Door, 
 0nft a toorD that shall ecljo for evermore ! 
 ifor, borne on tl)e nigljt tninD of t^e ^a, 
 ^Ijrougt) all our btetors to t|ie lat, 
 3fln t^e Ijour of Darbne00, anD peril, anD neeD, 
 (Thr people shall ma Urn, anD listen to I) car 
 (E&e tmrrping ^oof^beaw of tljat 0teeD, 
 
 me00age of ^aul Kebere. 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 TRIL 10, 1776. Up (old] Cornhill 
 [now the lower part of Washing- 
 ton Street] past the shop of Paul 
 Revere, that intrepid patriot and skillfull 
 mechanic." So is made to write that ficti- 
 tious maiden, charming Dorothy Dudley, 
 inscribing in her diary * the sights and in- 
 cidents of her first walk through the streets 
 of Boston after the forced departure, in the 
 preceding month, of the ten thousand British 
 veterans who had been "cooped up" in 
 the town through the long New England 
 winter by Washington's "ill-fed, ill-armed, 
 
 * "The Cambridge of 1776." Cambridge, Mass., 1876. 
 30 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 raw militiamen," and the simultaneous 
 embarkation of the loyalists to take refuge 
 in "Halifax, London, and elsewhere." 
 Even if the wooden shutters had already 
 been taken down from Revere's show win- 
 dow, it could hardly have made a very 
 brave display of bijoutry and silverware on 
 this occasion. Trade in the luxuries of 
 life must have languished in the belea- 
 guered town of Boston, and Revere had 
 had other and sterner work to do, but we 
 doubt not that his hand retained its cun- 
 ning, although it may have fallen out of 
 practice. 
 
 The silverware of Paul Revere is of ex- 
 cellent workmanship, and chaste in form, 
 evidently modeled after English eighteenth- 
 century designs, and the great variety * 
 of pieces of plate manufactured by him 
 
 * " Tankards, pitchers, tea-pots, spoons, snuff-boxes, spec- 
 tacle-bows, sugar baskets, ewers, salvers, porringers, tureens, 
 braziers, knee and shoe buckles, candlesticks, chafing dishes, 
 spatulas, etc., etc." E. H. Goss's "Life of Col. Paul 
 Revere," Vol. II, p. 519. 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 and now so eagerly sought for by collec- 
 tors are good examples of the style at 
 present so generally in favor, to which 
 we have given the euphonious name Col- 
 onial. The simple classical forms adopted 
 by our artisans at a period when art in this 
 country was still in its infancy, strangely 
 enough have never been improved upon 
 by their successors, and by reverting to 
 them in these latter days, our silversmiths 
 as well as our cabinet-makers are display- 
 ing good sense as well as an improved 
 taste; but in this mechanical age they 
 stamp or saw out their patterns in unlimited 
 quantities by machinery, and do not, as of 
 yore, hammer or carve them laboriously, 
 piece by piece, by hand; and therein lies 
 a distinction and a difference. 
 
 There appears to have been, on both 
 sides of the Atlantic, in Revolutionary days, 
 and the stormy times that immediately 
 preceded them, the usual propensity for 
 
 3* 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 caricature and allegory that marks every 
 exciting period in the history of a civilized 
 people. The "London Magazine" 1774-5, 
 contains a number of these grotesque and 
 generally coarse and clownish conceits, in- 
 spired by the political conditions existing 
 in America, several of which were copied 
 by Revere for " The Royal American Mag- 
 azine" the last periodical established in 
 Boston prior to the Revolution. 
 
 In 1765 Revere engraved an allegorical 
 picture, emblematical of the greatly dis- 
 turbed condition of affairs in America con- 
 sequent upon the passage of the Stamp Act 
 in January of that year, and the determina- 
 tion of the American people to resist its 
 enforcement. In commemoration of the 
 repeal of this obnoxious law, fraught with 
 such momentous and far-reaching conse- 
 quences to the British Empire, but which, 
 says Green, in his " History of the English 
 People," "passed through both houses of 
 Parliament with less opposition than a turn- 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 pike bill," * Revere engraved, the follow- 
 ing year, another plate, "A VIEW of the 
 OBELISK erected under LIBERTY TREE, in 
 BOSTON, on the Rejoicings for the Repeal of 
 the Stamp -Act." (February 22, 1766.) 
 Before the intention to place this obelisk 
 under the Liberty Tree could be carried 
 out, the structure was accidentally de- 
 stroyed by fire. 
 
 The Boston Liberty Tree was a fine 
 old elm, that stood, so Mr. Goss tells us, 
 "on the corner of Washington and Essex 
 Streets." Other liberty trees were set 
 apart in various sections of the country, 
 and we find an Ode to these altars of 
 freedom around which the Liberty boys 
 
 * "Issued under the Act of 1765. It was the resistance to 
 this impost on the part of the American Colonies, that brought 
 about their separation from the mother country. On a public 
 occasion once in an after dinner speech on April 19, 1850, Mr. 
 Edward Everett, holding up a specimen of the stamp said, * Yes 
 Sir, that bit of dingy blue paper, stamped with the two and six- 
 pence sterling, created the United States of America, and cost 
 Great Britain the brightest jewel in her crown.' " Dr. Samuel 
 A. Green y in bis " Groton during the Revolution," p. 189. 
 
 36 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 rallied and held their convocations, in the 
 "Pennsylvania Magazine" for July, 1775, 
 written by Thomas Paine (author of the 
 "Age of Reason "), who at the time was 
 the editor of this now scarce and much 
 coveted pre-revolutionary periodical. The 
 Ode is signed " Atlanticus," and we have 
 a taste of its highly epical flavor in this, 
 the first, stanza: 
 
 ree 
 
 of tbe 4BreeM " 
 
 a chariot of Ugtjt, from tlje region* of ttje Dap, 
 
 Or aoDDrss of L tbrrtv came* 
 <T rn tijottsauD crlrstials 1 DtrecteD tljr luav, 
 
 0nD Ijttljrr conDuctrD rlir Damr. 
 fair buDDing branch from tlir garften* abour, 
 
 C.C.I lif IT millions' until millions agree, 
 ^I)f brought in hrr ijanD as a pledge of lirr lobe, 
 tty plant 0fce nameD Liberty Tree. 
 
 Revere's celebrated but repulsive cari- 
 cature "THE RESCINDERS" appeared in 
 1768, and in 1770 he published one of 
 his most important engravings, "A View 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 of Boston,'* with a ribbon or scroll inscrip- 
 tion running entirely across the top of the 
 plate and bearing the legend, " A VIEW 
 OF PART OF THE TOWN OF 
 BOSTON IN NEW ENGLAND AND 
 BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR LAND- 
 ING THEIR TROOPS, 1768,"* and 
 the following lettering at the foot : 
 
 In the right-hand corner, within an 
 ornamental border, this dedication : 
 
 " To the Earl of Hillsborough His MAJ- 
 EST YS Sect* of State for America, THIS VIEW 
 of the only 'well Plan d EXPEDITION formed 
 for supporting y e dignity of BRITAIN and 
 chastising f insolence of AMERICA is hum- 
 bly Inscribed." 
 
 Below the engraving is the following 
 key and inscription : 
 
 1 Beaver 5 Mermaid 
 
 2 Senegal 6 Romney 
 
 3 Martin 7 Launceton 
 
 4 Glasgow 8 Bonetta 
 
 A Long Wharf 
 
 B HANCOCK'S Wharf 
 
 C North Battery 
 
 * The Boston Evacuation Memorial, Boston, 1876, has at 
 page 1 8 a heliotype reproduction of this print on a reduced 
 scale. 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 " On fry day, Sept" jo? 1 * 1768, the Ships 
 of WAR, armed Schooners, Tranf ports, &c. 
 Came up the Harbour and Anchored round 
 the TOWN : their Cannon loaded, a Spring on 
 their Cables, as for a regular Siege. At 
 noon on Saturday October the I" the four- 
 teenth and twenty-ninth Regiments, a detach- 
 ment from the 5Q' b Reg' and Train of Artil- 
 lery, with two pieces of Cannon, landed on the 
 Long Wharf: there Formed and Marched 
 with infolent Parade, Drums beating, Fifes 
 playing, and Colours flying, up KING STREET. 
 Each Soldier having received 16 rounds of 
 Powder and Ball. ENGRAVED, PRINTED, 
 & SOLD BY PAUL REVERE, BOSTON." * 
 
 The foregoing inscription and the ded- 
 ication to Lord Hillsborough express sen- 
 timents so diametrically opposed to each 
 other that they must certainly have been 
 penned by two different hands, and con- 
 sidering, as has been remarked by a pre- 
 
 * A photo-lithographic "fac-simile," slightly colored, of 
 this print was published, probably in 1868, by Alfred L. Sewell, 
 Chicago, 111. (" Done by the Western Bank Note and En- 
 graving Company.") A copy is in the Bostonian Society. 
 
 39 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 vious writer, "the contradiction between 
 these statements, it may be a question 
 whether the impressions issued in 1768 
 bore the second inscription." 
 
 An advertisement of this print appeared 
 in The Boston Gazette and County Jour- 
 nal, April 1 6, 1770 (see Goss, Vol. I, page 
 80), and the copy of it in the Bostonian 
 Society is in its original frame of ebonized 
 wood, the backing boards of which are 
 fastened in with strips of this same old- 
 time newspaper, upon which appears the 
 date of May 6, 1770. The coloring of 
 this print is unusually well done (espe- 
 cially the tinting of the sky) by one Chris- 
 tian Remick for an account of whom 
 the reader is referred to the extract in the 
 Appendix, from Vol. XLVII of the New 
 England Historical and Genealogical Re- 
 gister. Unfortunately parts of this print 
 are in a very dilapidated state. 
 
 Another copy of this print, also in poor 
 condition, is in the Lenox Library (Em- 
 
 40 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 met Collection). It measures 
 inches, including the inscriptions. This 
 copy is likewise colored by hand, as is so 
 frequently the case with Revere's prints. 
 
 The ruinous state into which many 
 of the engravings of pre-revolutionary 
 times have fallen, is owing, in a consider- 
 able degree, to the practice which pre- 
 vailed in those primitive days, of pasting 
 them on a board and covering them with 
 a thick coat of balsam or varnish. This 
 appears to have been the customary 
 method of stretching, and preparing a 
 print to be framed. It has proved a very 
 detrimental and destructive one. 
 
 The copper-plate of Revere's View of 
 Boston and Landing of the Troops, cut 
 down about four inches on the left-hand 
 side and an inch at the bottom, is now in 
 "charge of the Secretary of Massachusetts, 
 having been used for the issue of the con- 
 tinental currency." A few modern im- 
 pressions from it, without the inscription, 
 
 41 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 are to be met with in the channels of 
 trade.* A small woodcut copy of it ap- 
 pears in Edes & Gill's North American 
 Almanack, Boston, 1770, and is repro- 
 duced in Winsor's " Narrative and Critical 
 History of America," Vol. VI, page 81. 
 
 A smaller copper-plate of this same 
 View of the Town of Boston, extended 
 further south, was engraved by Revere for 
 the first number of, " The Royal American 
 Magazine" Boston, 1774, the inscription 
 being changed to read : 
 
 "A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF 
 BOSTON WITH SEVERAL SHIPS 
 OF WAR IN THE HARBOUR." 
 
 * The engraving upon the back of this plate is thus described : 
 " Eight figures in the uniform of the colonial minute man. In 
 his right hand, a sword; in his left, a scroll upon which is the word 
 ' Independence.' Above the figure is the legend Issued in de- 
 fence of American liberty ' and below, the present motto of the 
 State of Massachusetts, ' Ense petit, etc., etc.' In each case 
 scratches have been made through the face of the figure and the 
 words on the scroll, as if to prevent their further use. There is 
 also a further inscription above the figure, and the date of issue 
 below, which have been mutilated." 
 
 4* 
 
. 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 These eighteenth - century Views of 
 Boston, by Revere were not the first that 
 had been engraved. They were preceded 
 more than twenty years by the quaint and 
 exceedingly scarce copper-plate which em- 
 bellishes the title-page of " The Ameri- 
 can Magazine and Historical Chronicle " 
 (Boston, 1744,) engraved by J. Turner,* 
 one of our early engravers, for a mention 
 of whose name you will search in vain 
 through the pages of Dunlap's " History 
 of the Arts of Design in the United 
 States," although he was a contemporary 
 of, and as capable an artist, if not so cele- 
 brated a character, as Paul Revere, of 
 whom Dunlap gives a lengthy biographi- 
 cal notice. 
 
 One of the earlier representations of the 
 
 * There is a copy of this engraving in the Massachusetts 
 Historical Society and another in the collection of Mr. John P. 
 Woodbury of Boston. A photogravure copy of Mr. Wood- 
 bury's print was used as a frontispiece in the Catalogue of the 
 Exhibition of rare and choice books and prints held on its tenth 
 anniversary, February 17-24, 1897, by the Club of Odd Vol- 
 umes of Boston. 
 
 45 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 town of Boston, from the hand of a native 
 artist is the Plan engraved by Thos. John- 
 ston, Boston, N. E., and inscribed by Will 
 Burgis to William Burnet, Esq., who was 
 Governor of New York from 1720 to 
 1728, and was then transferred to the gov- 
 ernment of Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
 shire. Burnet died in Boston, September 
 7, 1729. The dedication to him, of this 
 Plan of Boston, would appear, therefore, to 
 settle definitely the date of its execution. 
 The inscription upon it reads as follows : 
 
 "Plan of Boston. Size, 14^ x 10^. En- 
 graved by Thos. Johnston, Boston, N. E. 
 
 I'o his Excellency 
 Mtlltam Burtm, dEsfq*, 
 
 This Plan of 
 
 HBoSton in jfeeto dBnglanD is humbly Dedicated by 
 His Excellency's most obedient and humble servant 
 Will Burgifs." 
 
 The above dedication is in an oval, sur- 
 mounted by the arms and motto of (prob- 
 ably) Governor Burnet, and supported by 
 
 4 6 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 female figures seated on a pedestal, upon 
 the base of which are the words: "BOSTON, 
 N. Eng d - Planted MDCXXX." Below this 
 is a table or key to the buildings in the 
 Plan which are designated by the letters 
 of the alphabet. 
 
 This plan is remarkably well engraved 
 for the period, and in fact will bear favor- 
 able comparison with any eighteenth-cen- 
 tury copper-plate engraving that exists, of 
 either English or American origin. 
 
 The copy of this map or plan (which 
 may very possibly be unique), from which 
 the above description is taken, is in the 
 possession of Mr. R. T. H. Halsey of this 
 city.* 
 
 This same Thomas Johnston also en- 
 graved and printed a picture of "QUEBEC 
 
 * Another early " Map of the Town of Boston in New Eng- 
 land " is the one made by Capt. John Bonner, 1722. Engraved 
 and Printed by Fra Dewing, Boston, N. E., 1722. Sold by 
 Capt. John Bonner and Will Price against y e Town House 
 where may be had all Sorts of Prints, Mapps, etc." 
 
 There is, I understand, a still more ancient map of Boston in 
 existence than either of those here mentioned dating back to the 
 
 47 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 THE CAPITAL OF NEW FRANCE A 
 BISHOPRICK AND SEAT OF THE SO7- 
 ERAIN COURT," for Step h . Whiting (no 
 date or place). The only copy of this 
 print (which was probably engraved in 
 the early part of the eighteenth century), 
 that I have seen, is in the collection of Mr. 
 William F. Havemeyer of this city. It is 
 an oblong quarto print, colored by hand, 
 size 8% x 6% inches, including the in- 
 scriptions. 
 
 There was quite a little company of 
 these early American engravers, who have 
 been entirely overlooked by writers upon 
 the rise and progress of the Arts of Design 
 in this country of ours. The productions 
 of these men are not masterpieces of 
 drawing or engraving, but they were pio- 
 neers in their particular domain, and their 
 
 time of John Foster, the first Boston printer (167680). An ac- 
 count of this map is now, I am told, in preparation and will 
 shortly be published. 
 
 A copy of Bonner's Map, made in 1835 by George G. 
 Smith, Engraver, Boston, hangs on the walls of the Bostonian 
 Society. 
 
 48 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 work, unskilful as it may be, is assuredly 
 of greater consequence, historically and 
 topographically considered, than are either 
 the ambitious painted canvases, or the fin- 
 ished engravings of many of the artists who 
 have succeeded them, and whose names are 
 better known to fame, chiefly because it was 
 their good fortune to live in an age which 
 appreciated its men of talent and recorded 
 their achievements. In the pioneer days 
 of our forefathers a professional artist was 
 looked upon as a rather useless member of 
 the community, who received scant con- 
 sideration from, and was not held in very 
 high honor by his practical, hardworking, 
 non-aesthetic friends and neighbors. 
 
 Original impressions of the Revere 
 Views of Boston are not found hanging 
 from every bush. They are few and far 
 enough between ; but the rarest of all 
 Revere's engravings is undoubtedly the 
 " Westerly View of the Colledges in Cam- 
 bridge New England," after a drawing 
 
 49 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 by Jos h - Chadwick. It differs from the 
 view published by William Burgis, which 
 antedates it by some forty years, although 
 the general appearance presented by the 
 group of college buildings is the same. Ac- 
 cording to Mr. E. H. Goss, the author of 
 the most complete Life of Revere which 
 has yet appeared, only one original im- 
 pression of this engraving is known, the 
 one belonging to the Essex Institute, of 
 Salem, Mass. ; but I am informed that 
 Mr. Z. T. Hollingsworth, of Boston, is the 
 owner of a copy in good condition. The 
 plate was cut in two, and used for engrav- 
 ing the Massachusetts paper money, of 
 the Revolution. The right-hand section 
 of it is still in existence, the property of 
 the State, and upon the back are the en- 
 gravings of the twenty shillings, fourteen 
 shillings, and six shillings of Massachu- 
 setts Bay Colony Scrip. Impressions from 
 the half-plate are in limited circulation,* 
 
 * E. H. Goss's " Life of Colonel Paul Revere." 
 5 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 one of which, printed on Whatman writ- 
 ing paper, as is shown by the water- 
 mark, may be seen in the rooms of the 
 Bostonian Society, as also an impression 
 on similar paper, from the cut-down plate 
 of the "Landing of the Troops." 
 
 For information as to the engraving 
 upon the backs of the Revere copper- 
 plates now in the possession of the State 
 of Massachusetts I am indebted to Mr. 
 John Woodbury of Boston to whom the 
 plates were recently shown by Secretary of 
 State Olin. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 HE Boston Massacre print, the 
 most celebrated of all Revere's 
 engravings, is cotemporaneous 
 with the sanguinary event which it com- 
 memorates. The next of his engravings 
 in chronological order to which a date of 
 execution can with accuracy be affixed ap- 
 pears to be the two effigies in "The En- 
 
 l .i/ o 
 
 tertaining History of King Philip's War, 
 by Thomas Church. Reprinted from the 
 Boston edition of 1761 by Solomon South- 
 wick, Newport (R. I. ), 1772." Then fol- 
 lowed the illustrations in an edition of Cap- 
 tain Cook's Voyages. Printed by James 
 Rivington. New York, 1774. Church's 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 book contains an imaginary portrait of 
 Colonel Benjamin Church, the " noted 
 Indian fighter who commanded the party 
 by whom King Philip was killed," and 
 an equally fanciful and still more gro- 
 tesque representation of PHILIP, KING 
 of Mount Hope, engraved by Revere, 
 which is probably his own naive concep- 
 tion of the tattooed face and figure of this 
 celebrated savage warrior. 
 
 Captain Cook's Voyages is embellished 
 with a map of the whole navigation pro- 
 tracted by B. Romans (another engraver 
 not mentioned by Dunlap) and two plates 
 poorly engraved by Revere, copies of il- 
 lustrations which appeared in previous edi- 
 tions of this popular work, so that we 
 have here a book printed in New York be- 
 fore the Revolution, which contains en- 
 gravings by Paul Revere a combination 
 which appeals with irresistible force to 
 both the Boston and the New York book- 
 and print-collector. 
 
 53 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 The following is a collation of the 
 illustrations in the copies of this rare and 
 curious book in the New York Histori- 
 cal Society and the collection of Mr. 
 Edwin B. Holden, of this city : 
 
 TITLE : 
 
 "A New Voyage round the World in 
 the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 and 1771, 
 . . . performed by Captain James Cook. 
 By John Hawkesworth, LL.D. and late 
 Director of the East India Company. 
 In two volumes, with cutts and a Map 
 of the whole navigation. New York. 
 Printed by James Rivington, 1774." 
 
 PLATES : 
 
 I. "Dramatic Interlude and Dance 
 given by the Indians of Ulieta, performed 
 by two women & 6 Men with three 
 Drums" (signed P. Revere, Sep.), "to 
 front the title of Cook's Voyage, Vol. I." 
 
 II. Map protracted by B. Romans, 
 "displaying the Continents of North and 
 
 54 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 South America and the greater part of the 
 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans." * 
 
 " A New Zealand Warrior in his proper 
 Dress, and completely armed"; "Two 
 Natives of New Holland advancing to 
 Combat " these two engravings are on 
 one plate " To front the title of Cook's 
 Voyage, Vol. II." This plate is not 
 signed. 
 
 Captain Bernard Romans, who pro- 
 tracted the map in Cook's Voyage, is best 
 known as the author of " A Concise Nat- 
 ural History of East and West Florida. 
 Containing an account of the natural 
 produce of all the Southern part of Brit- 
 ish America, in the three Kingdoms of 
 Nature, particularly the animal and vege- 
 table ; likewise the artificial produce 
 
 * There is still another eighteenth-century American edition 
 of Cook's Voyages, entitled " Captain Cook's Three Voyages 
 to the Pacific Ocean," etc. Printed at Boston by Manning & 
 Loring for Thomas & Andrews and D. West, January, 1797. 
 This edition contains a full-length portrait of Captain Cook 
 and seven other engravings by S. Hill, the engraver of most of 
 the prints in the " Massachusetts Magazine." 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 now raised or possible to be raised and 
 manufactured there ; with some commer- 
 cial and political observations on that 
 part of the world, and a chorographical 
 account of the same. By Captain Ber- 
 nard Romans. Vol. I. New York. 
 Printed for the Author. MDCCLXXV." 
 (The manuscript of the second volume of 
 this work, which was never published, is 
 said to be still in existence.) Volume I 
 contains one folded sheet and ten engrav- 
 ings, including the frontispiece, the dedi- 
 cation to John Ellis, and three full-page 
 maps. Mr. Menzies' copy, from whose 
 catalogue the foregoing list of the illus- 
 trations is taken, brought $175 in 1875. 
 An uncut copy was sold by Mr. Charles 
 E. Woodward to the late Mr. Charles 
 H. Kalbfleisch, many years ago, for $225, 
 as I am informed by the vendor himself. 
 
 Bernard Romans was also the engraver 
 of another most notable early American 
 print, the " Late Battle at Charlestown," 
 
 56 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 which was copied one-half the size of the 
 original by R. Aitkin in his " Pennsylvania 
 Magazine," September, 1775, and pre- 
 sented to his subscribers as "a very ele- 
 gant engraving." 
 
 The only impression of Romans' orig- 
 inal engraving of the " Late Battle at 
 Charlestown," that I can trace, was one 
 sold some years since by a New York 
 bookseller for $ 1 1 o, and I am inclined 
 to believe that it is the same copy which 
 is described in the following clipping 
 from the catalogue of the exhibition held 
 February 17-24, 1897, by the "Club of 
 Odd Volumes" of Boston: 
 
 " BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. An Exact View of 
 the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17, 1775. In 
 which an advanced party of about 700 Provincials 
 stood an Attack made by 1 1 regiments and a 
 train of Artillery, and after an engagement of 2 
 hours retreated to their main body at Cambridge, leav- 
 ing eleven hundred of the enemy killed and wounded 
 upon the field. B. Romans, sc. 
 
 " Folio, line engraving. 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 "A very rare contemporary engraving, showing 
 Colonel Prescott on horseback, in command of the 
 American Troops." 
 
 I have gleaned the following facts in 
 regard to Captain Romans, from Duyc- 
 kinck's " Cyclopedia of American Litera- 
 ture" and E. M. Ruttenber's "Obstructions 
 to the Navigation of Hudson's River;" (J. 
 Munsell, Albany, N. Y., 1860):* 
 
 Romans was a Hollander by birth, but 
 early in life emigrated to England, where 
 he adopted the profession of an engineer, 
 and in this capacity was employed for a 
 number of years prior to the Revolution- 
 ary War by the British Government in her 
 Southern American Provinces, and also as 
 a botanist in Florida, with a pension of 
 about ^50 sterling per annum. 
 
 A manuscript in Harvard College Li- 
 brary, written by John Gerard William de 
 Brahm mentions Romans as a draughts- 
 man and a resident of Florida from 1763 
 
 * Munsell's Historical Series, No. V. 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 to 1771. From 1775 to 1780 he lived 
 in the North, was engaged in the ca- 
 pacity of engineer for the construction of 
 Forts Clinton and Montgomery, in the 
 Highlands of the Hudson River, and 
 served for a time as the " Captain of 
 a company of Pennsylvania Artillery des- 
 tined for the invasion of Canada as a part 
 of the Northern Army." " In 1 780, while 
 on his passage from New Haven or New 
 London to the South, he was captured by 
 the British, who refused to exchange him 
 as a prisoner of war, and he was carried to 
 Montego Bay, Jamaica, where he was held 
 in Captivity until the Close of the war." 
 Another account states, (upon what au- 
 thority, I know not), that Romans was 
 sent to England and died at sea on his re- 
 turn home in 1784. The exact time and 
 manner of his death remain a mystery. 
 
 The latter portion of this statement is 
 taken from the Deposition of Romans' 
 widow made for the purpose of obtaining 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 a pension. She died in i 848, aged 89, and 
 her miniature, painted by her husband, is 
 said to be still preserved in the family and 
 to be beautifully executed. 
 
 In the foregoing reference to Bernard 
 Romans I have digressed somewhat wide- 
 ly from my proper theme, but I trust 
 that the facts which have been cited in 
 relation to an engraver who was a cotem- 
 porary of and a co-worker with Paul 
 Revere, will be found of interest to the 
 American collector and not entirely out 
 of place in this connection. With this 
 word of apology I will resume the thread 
 of my broken narrative. 
 
 The only one of the quaint old " Har- 
 monies" upon which Revere exercised 
 his taste and skill, that I have had an op- 
 portunity to examine is " The New Eng- 
 land Psalm Singer or American Chorister" 
 composed by Mr. Billings, a native of 
 Boston, in N. E. Boston, New England. 
 Printed by Edes & Gill (1770). The 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 reproduction, on page 61, of the frontis- 
 piece, engraved for this book by Revere, 
 is made from the copy belonging to Mr. 
 E. B. Holden. Whether the design, 
 which is certainly superior to the execu- 
 tion of this plate, can be ascribed to Re- 
 vere or not, is an open question. 
 
 This oblong octavo volume, bound in 
 sheepskin, over oaken boards, which is so 
 pleasantly suggestive of the singing master 
 and instructor in psalmody, Ichabod Crane, 
 and his pupil, the fair and buxom Katrina 
 Van Tassel, immortalized in Irving's " Le- 
 gend of Sleepy Hollow," was aforetime 
 " Olney 'Wln.Aoi' 6 &ook, &ou,t ^une i8tk, 
 / 77^'" After tne Preface and "An Essay 
 on the Nature and Properties of Sound," 
 there follows an " Ode on Music," from 
 a Miscellany of the Rev. Dr. Byles. 
 American anthology furnishes no better 
 example of the metaphorical style of com- 
 position in which eighteenth -century 
 writers in both this and our mother 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 country delighted to indulge, than that 
 which this ode, with its bold and original 
 figures of speech, supplies. Hearken ! 
 
 DOWN steers tlje Bass toity grabe, gpafestic air, 
 0no up ttje Treble mounts toitl) sljrill career ; 
 WSLixfy softer >ounas, in mild ^elouious $j9a?e, 
 Garbling bettoeen t^e Tenor gently pla^s ; 
 JIBut if t&e aspiring Altus foins its jforce, 
 
 ! like tlje ILarfe, it M ings its toto'ring Course ; 
 ' J^armon^'s sublimest ^pljere it flies, 
 to Angelic Accents seems to rise ; 
 if rom tlje bolD J^eigljt it Jjails t^e echoing Bass 
 C2U)irlj stoells to mrrt, anu mir in close embrace. 
 tD|jo' Different ^sterns all t^ie parts DibiDe, 
 tClitl) ^pusic'S CtiorDS tlje Distant jl^otes are ty'D; 
 0nD fe>vipatl)eticU Strains enchanting unnDr 
 
 ir restless Uace, till all tlje parts are foin'O 
 rolls tlje Capture t^ro' tlje #ir around 
 
 t^e full 
 
 The writer of this ode I judge to be 
 the poet-preacher, Mather Byles, D.D., 
 minister, of Boston, who died in 1788, 
 aged 82. He was noted for his wit in 
 conversation, his poetical talents, and his 
 Tory proclivities, which made him an 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 object of suspicion and watchfulness on 
 the part of the patriots during the War of 
 Independence.* 
 
 For a more detailed account of the 
 Music Scores and Frontispieces engraved 
 by Revere for the Psalm-tune, Fugue, and 
 Anthem books of Puritan New England 
 the reader is referred to the " Life of 
 Revere," by E. H. Goss, which I have 
 heretofore quoted, and to the same au- 
 thority for an account of the " North 
 Battery" plate, j- which formed the head- 
 ing for a certificate of membership as an 
 Inlisted MONTROSS or gunner's mate in an 
 artillery company, as well as for a descrip- 
 tion of the portrait of the Lord Protector 
 Cromwell, which adorned the Bill of 
 
 * See Allen's American Biographical Dictionary. 
 
 f A view of the South Battery or Sconce "erected 1666 at 
 the base of Fort Hill where Rowe's wharf now stands by 
 ' Maj. Gen. John Leverett afterwards Gov.' of Mass." 
 forms the heading for another of these Montross Certificates. 
 This print was, if I am correctly informed, fac-similed by Mr. 
 John H. Daniels, recently deceased, (the oldest plate printer in 
 Boston) in the belief that the plate had been engraved by Revere. 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 Cromwell's Head Inn, a famous tavern, 
 says Mr. Goss, in School Street, Boston, 
 which was standing until 1888. The 
 copper-plate of the " North Battery," (with 
 the portion which bore the inscription 
 missing), is still in existence, and modern 
 impressions from it are occasionally offered 
 for sale. I am told that they have the same 
 genesis as the restrikes from the Boston 
 Massacre plate, a reference to which will 
 be found further on in these pages. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
 F all eighteenth-century illustra- 
 ted American magazines, the 
 
 most difficult to secure in sound 
 condition and containing all the plates 
 (although the publisher informs us that 
 in its day it had a "handsome list of 
 subscribers," and there must have been 
 an edition of several hundred copies 
 printed) is THE ROYAL AMERICAN MAG- 
 AZINE published in Boston in 1774 
 75 * by Joseph Greenleaf and "the father 
 and patron," as he has been justly styled, 
 
 * Feby. 7, 1774, "This day the Royal American Maga- 
 zine published for the first (time) (by I. Thomas)." Diary of 
 Mr. Thomas Newell published in Massachusetts Historical So- 
 ciety Proceedings for 1876-77. 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 of the art of printing in Massachusetts, 
 Isaiah Thomas. Thomas's "History of 
 Printing in America," first published about 
 a century ago, is still regarded as an au- 
 thority, and the best work on the subject, 
 so far as it goes, extant to-day. 
 
 The following collation of the illustra- 
 tions in " The Royal American Magazine " 
 was kindly furnished me some years ago 
 by the Librarian of Yale University, 
 which venerable institution of learning 
 (now preparing for its Bi-Centennial cele- 
 bration in October next), is the fortunate 
 possessor of an uncut copy of this noted 
 book in fine condition, which came to it 
 in 1878 from the library of Mr. George 
 Brinley at a cost of only $30. It would 
 probably bring ten times that amount to- 
 day, at public auction. It lacks only one 
 or two of the plates and pages 912 and 
 
 2533 f t ^ ie text * n ^ e ^ rst v l ume > an d 
 it has a number of the pale blue paper 
 covers, in which it was originally issued, 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 bound in at the end proof positive that 
 the book came from the library of a true 
 bibliophile. 
 
 Isaiah Thomas states in his " History 
 of Printing" (Vol. II, pp. 260-1) that 
 A PROSPECTUS of "The Royal American 
 Magazine " appeared many months be- 
 fore the periodical ; " but the disordered 
 state of public affairs, and the difficul- 
 ties which individuals experienced from 
 them, prevented it from being sooner put 
 to press; and after a few numbers had 
 been published, the distress occasioned 
 to the inhabitants of Boston by shutting 
 up and blockading their port obliged 
 its editor to suspend the publication."* 
 
 * The bill closing the port of Boston against all commerce 
 as a punishment for the riot in connection with the tea ships was 
 introduced into Parliament in the beginning of 1774. 
 
 On the ist of June of this year three transports with troops 
 on board arrived at Nantasket road to "enforce the cruel edict 
 of the British Parliament." The condition of affairs in the 
 town of Boston on the 1 5th of this month is graphically and 
 succinctly described in the Diary of Mr. Thomas Newell, pub- 
 lished in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical So- 
 ciety, Vol. XV. " Wind, S. E. Wednesday; fair} pleasant} 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 COLLATION OF THE ENGRAVINGS IN THE 
 .ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, 1774-75. 
 
 VOLUME I 
 1774 
 
 Jany. No. i. A View of the Town of Boston 
 with Several Ships of War in the 
 Harbour. 
 
 Jany. " 2. The Thunder Storm. P. Revere. 
 
 Feb. " 3. Sir Wilbraham Wentworth. 
 
 Feb. " 4. The Night Scene. J. Callender. 
 
 Mar. " 5. Honourable John Hancock. P. Re- 
 vere. 
 
 Mar. u 6. The Fortune Hunter. J. Callender. 
 
 Apr. " 7. Mr. Samuel Adams. P. Revere. 
 
 Apr. " 8. The Hill-Tops : A new Hunting 
 Song (with a Representation of 
 the Death of the Stag). J. C. 
 
 May " 9. An Indian Gazette. * 
 
 June " 10. The able Doctor, or America Swal- 
 lowing the Bitter Draught, f 
 
 P. M. rain and thunder. A. M. 431! Regiment landed at the 
 Long Wharf, and marched to the common, and there encamped. 
 Most of the stores on the Long Wharf are noiu shut up. Thus 
 are we surrounded with fleet and army} the harbor shut, all 
 navigation cease, and not one topsail vessel to be seen but those 
 of our enemies. Ob, let not posterity forget our sufferings.'''' 
 
 * See Appendix. -f-See page 33. 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 June No. II. The Hooded Serpent. 
 
 July " 12. Spanish Treatment at Carthagena. 
 P. Revere. 
 
 Aug. " 13. The Method of Refining Salt-Petre. 
 
 Sept. " 14. An Elegant Engraving of a Water 
 Spout. 
 
 Oct. " 15. The Mitred Minuet * (on title- 
 page). The Dancing Bishops. 
 P. Revere. 
 
 Nov. " 1 6. The Gerbua or Yerboa. 
 
 Nov. " 17. Mademoiselle Clairon. 
 
 Dec. " 1 8. The Manner that Bees take their 
 repose. 
 
 Dec. " 19. A Conference held between some 
 Indian Chiefs and Colonel Bou- 
 quet in the year 1764. 
 
 This plate is a copy of the drawing made by Ben- 
 jamin West, for the London edition (1766) of " An 
 Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio 
 Indians in the year MDCCLXIV, under the com- 
 mand of Henry Bouquet, Esq., Colonel of Foot, and 
 now Brigadier-General in America." By Dr. Wil- 
 liam Smith. 
 
 This, and another historical engraving with the title 
 " The Indians delivering up the English captives to 
 
 * Copied from the caricature in the " London Magazine," 
 I774- 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 Colonel Bouquet, near his camp at the Forks of Mus- 
 kingum, in North America^ in November, 1764," were 
 engraved by Grignion and Canot, from what are said 
 to be the earliest drawings of Benjamin West. 
 
 VOLUME II 
 
 '775 
 
 Jany. No. I. A certain Cabinet Junto. P. Revere. 
 Feby. " 2. History of Lauretta. P. Revere. 
 Mar. " 3. (America in Distress.) 
 
 N. B. Parts in parenthesis taken from the title-pages. All 
 the plates except the three signed by J. Callender were prob- 
 ably engraved by Paul Revere. 
 
 The following is an extract from the 
 letter which accompanied the foregoing 
 list: 
 
 " In an Address to the Subscribers 
 dated December 31,1 774, and printed on 
 the same sheet with the title-page of Vol. 
 I occurs this paragraph: 
 
 " * The Magazine for January 1 775 will 
 be ornamented with a curious political 
 frontispiece, in which will be exhibited 
 in a striking light the Enemies of Ameri- 
 can LIBERTY both civil and religious, 
 
 
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a*& C0fo 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 plotting their total destruction. AMERICA 
 (described by a woman in a pensive pos- 
 ture) with this label: "Lord thou did'st 
 drive out the heathen, etc." Encouraged 
 by a voice from a cloud saying, " I have 
 delivered and will deliver." 
 
 "At one end of the plate are the figures 
 of the ' Cabinet 'Junto ' at the other end 
 that of 'America in distress! It seems 
 to me quite possible that the plate not 
 being ready for the January number (on 
 the title of which it is described simply 
 as a * neatly engraved frontispiece,*) ap- 
 peared actually in the March number. 
 It is also possible, of course, that the same 
 subject was treated twice, and if a second 
 plate turns up my supposition goes for 
 nothing." 
 
 A review of Revere's work as an en- 
 graver, would be incomplete without a 
 reference to the book-plates which he 
 produced three of which are in what Mr. 
 Charles Dexter Allen calls the " Chippen- 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 dale" style, and one that of William 
 Wetmore in the " Ribbon and Wreath." 
 Mr. Allen in his work on American book- 
 plates, describes four "ex libris" those of 
 Gardiner Chandler, Epes Sargent, David 
 Greene and William Wetmore which 
 are signed by Revere, and therefore known 
 to be the work of his hand. Revere's 
 own plate is unsigned, but it and also the 
 "Jacobean" plate of Isaiah Thomas were 
 probably engraved by Revere. 
 
 These book-plates are all of uncommon 
 occurrence, and command, when offered 
 for sale, prices ranging from $50 upwards. 
 Revere's own plate, I understand to be 
 the rara-avis of them all. A fac-simile 
 of the Epes Sargent plate has been en- 
 graved for Arthur Hewes Sargent by Sid- 
 ney L. Smith of Boston. 
 
 As has already been stated, the most 
 noted of the prints of Paul Revere is the 
 one in which is depicted in a fashion 
 rude, almost to the point of caricature, that 
 
" 
 
 . 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 sanguinary prelude to the Revolutionary 
 War, the Boston Massacre. This plate was 
 engraved and published immediately after 
 the occurrence of the memorable tragedy 
 of March 5, 1770, in King Street, now 
 called State Street, Boston. 
 
 The size of this renowned engraving, 
 inclusive of the inscriptions at the top 
 and bottom, is 8^x9^ inches, of the 
 picture alone, 8^x7% inches. All the 
 impressions that I have seen aside from 
 the one embedded in Edes & Gills' broad- 
 side, to which reference will presently be 
 made, are colored by hand. The two 
 primary colors, red and blue, predominate, 
 but an occasional wash of brown or green 
 shows that the artist's color-box was not 
 destitute of other pigments. The uncouth- 
 ness of the engraving is accentuated by the 
 bizarre effects produced by the colorist. 
 Furthermore, most of the copies in exist- 
 ence of this famous print, are more or less 
 stained by exposure to humidity, or dis- 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 colored by the fumes of the kitchen fires 
 of the New England farm houses, on the 
 smoky walls of which they have hung, 
 undisturbed and uncared for, these many 
 years. Worms, too, have feasted on them, 
 but the sad state of decrepitude into which 
 they have fallen only causes us to regard 
 them with keener solicitude, and we suffer 
 no cleaner's or restorer's hand to apply to 
 their worn and sullied surfaces nostrums 
 and remedies which are frequently worse 
 than the diseases they essay to cure. Stains 
 in old paper that a bath of pure water will 
 not eradicate had better, as a rule, be left 
 alone. 
 
 I have remarked that it is the uncol- 
 ored portions of these old prints that 
 have been attacked by worms. The little 
 creeping things do not appear to have rel- 
 ished the taste of paint and probably they 
 found it an unhealthful article of diet. 
 
 The inscriptions upon the Boston Mas- 
 sacre plate are as follows. Inset in the 
 
 8z 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 lower right-hand margin of the engrav- 
 ing the words: 
 
 Engrav'd, Printed & Sold by PAUL REVERE, BOSTON. 
 AT TOP 
 
 "The BLOODY MASSACRE perpe- 
 trated in King Street, BOSTON, on March 5, 
 1770, by a party of the 29 REGJ^" 
 
 AT FOOT 
 
 arranged in three compartments are the 
 following verses : 
 
 " Unhappy BOSTON ! fee thy Sons deplore, 
 Thy hallow'd Walks befmear'd with guilt- 
 
 lefs Gore : 
 
 While faithlefs P n and his favage Bands, 
 With murd'rous Rancour ftretch their bloody 
 
 Hands ; 
 
 Like fierce Barbarians grinning o'er their Prey, 
 Approve the Carnage and enjoy the Day. 
 
 If fcalding drops from Rage from Anguish 
 
 Wrung, 
 
 If fpeechlefs Sorrows lab'ring for a Tongue, 
 Or if a weeping World can ought appeafe 
 The plaintive Ghofts of Victims fuch as thefe ; 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 The Patriot's copious Tears for each are fhed, 
 A glorious Tribute which embalms the Dead. 
 
 " But know, FATE fummons to that awful Goal, 
 Where JUSTICE ftrips the Murd'rer of his 
 
 Soul : 
 
 Should venal C ts, the fcandal of the Land, 
 Snatch the relentlefs Villain from her Hand, 
 Keen Execrations on this Plate infcrib'd, 
 Shall reach a JUDGE who never can be 
 
 brib'd." 
 
 unkappy <$uffeietA we%e cffloetf- 
 SAM- GRAY, SAM= MAVERICK, JAM- 
 CALDWELL, CRISPUS ATTUCKS & PAT* 
 CARR, S&illet), $ix wounded; ^owo of tketn, 
 (CHRIST" MONK & JOHN CLARK) dHooi- 
 tally, 
 
 In the collections of the New York 
 Historical Society there is a broadside 
 (19x15^ inches in size), black and som- 
 bre-looking in its deep mourning borders 
 and rules, which bears the following 
 heading : 
 
 "An Account of a late Military Mas- 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 sacre at Boston, or the consequences of 
 Quartering Troops in a populous, well- 
 regulated Town, taken from the Boston 
 Gazette of [Monday] March i2th, 1770." 
 This broadside, which contains a full 
 and circumstantial account of the affair of 
 March 5, 1770, has two full columns of 
 text and three columns of eight inches 
 in length, thus leaving room at the top of 
 the sheet between the two outside col- 
 umns for an engraving of the " Massacre " 
 by Paul Revere. In the last column are 
 four rude engravings of coffins which are 
 initialed, above a skull and crossbones 
 
 and 
 
 S. G. 
 
 
 S. M. 
 
 
 J. c. 
 
 respectively. At the end of the last column 
 is a short paragraph dated March 1 9th, in 
 which is also an engraving of a coffin in- 
 scribed with the letters 
 skull and crossbones. 
 
 above a 
 
 This paragraph an- 
 nounces the death of Patrick Carr which 
 occurred the preceding Wednesday. 
 
 After a careful examination and a com- 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 parison of this engraving with an un- 
 doubted Revere " Boston Massacre " I am 
 unable to decide for or against its authen- 
 ticity, but to all appearances this sheet 
 contains an impression from Revere's or- 
 iginal copper-plate. If this be so, it must 
 be one of the 200 impressions for print- 
 ing which the charge of five pounds ster- 
 ling to Edes & Gill is made in Revere's 
 Day-book, as shown in Mr. Goss's fac- 
 simile of the page containing the entry ; 
 and here we have also the five coffings, for 
 which, by the same token, Revere charged 
 the afore-mentioned firm the sum of six 
 shillings. Two of the statements here set 
 forth impress us as somewhat remarkable. 
 First, the modesty of Revere's charges and 
 secondly the celerity of his performances, 
 for if the date ascribed to the entry in his 
 Day-book is correct, he required only four 
 days in which to engrave and print his 
 plate of the Boston Massacre, the first 
 impressions from which, it is also natural 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 to conclude, must have been those sup- 
 plied to Messrs. Edes & Gill to illustrate 
 this broadside. 
 
 The copper-plate of the Boston Massa- 
 cre, minus the inscriptions, and with the en- 
 graving upon the back of three pieces of 
 Massachusetts Bay Colony Money of the 
 denominations of ten, twelve and eighteen 
 shillings, is now in possession of the State 
 of Massachusetts, presented to the Com- 
 monwealth, I am informed, by the Revere 
 family at the time of the Centennial Cel- 
 ebration of the Battles of Lexington and 
 Concord. At about this time, some one 
 interested in the matter, obtained tempo- 
 rary possession of the plate, and had a num- 
 ber of impressions taken from it. When 
 this fact was discovered by the authorities 
 they recalled the plate, which, we are as- 
 sured, has ever since been kept under lock 
 and key, in the vaults of the State Treas- 
 urer, and furthermore, it is announced that 
 the plate has been mutilated by a scratch 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 across its face, so that no more impressions 
 from it can possibly be taken. 
 
 There are other versions of the story 
 of the manner in which these restrikes 
 were obtained by the dealers in prints, but 
 the rumors all agree that the number of 
 impressions which at this time were taken 
 from the original plates of both the " Mas- 
 sacre" and the "North Battery" numbered 
 only ten or twelve, and that there cannot 
 be, of that particular edition, more than 
 that limited number of copies in circula- 
 tion, but this is not the entire conclusion 
 of the matter. To judge from the paper, 
 which is old Whatman laid, with a water 
 mark of a fleur-de-lis surmounted by a 
 crown and the letters <S &* upon which 
 the copies of the "Massacre" plate and 
 the "Ships of War landing Troops," in 
 the Bostonian Society, are printed, they 
 would appear to have been taken before 
 the beginning of the year 1800, while 
 Revere was still living. The plate of the 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 "Landing of Troops" is cut down, as we 
 find it in the restrikes of the Centennial 
 period, and the "Massacre" plate has been 
 unskillfully retouched, apparently by an- 
 other hand than that of Revere. The prob- 
 able solution of this enigma is, however, 
 that the printer of these copies obtained 
 some sheets of old account book paper and 
 that these engravings were printed at a 
 much later period than they appear to be, 
 but whether at an earlier or later date 
 than those struck off at the time of the 
 Centennial I am unable to say. Here at 
 all events is another pitfall for the feet of 
 the unwary collector. 
 
 To judge from the manner in which 
 Revere's copper-plates were so frequently 
 sawn asunder and made to serve a double 
 purpose, that ductile metal must have been 
 as scarce in Massachusetts during the Revo- 
 lutionary War as we are told that it was in 
 New South Wales fifty years later, when 
 in the whole Colony it was found impos- 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 sible to procure a single plate of copper 
 fit for engraving upon, and the artist was, 
 in consequence, forced to content himself 
 with the common sheet of copper which 
 is employed for the coppering of ships, 
 but that was before the days of the won- 
 derful Calumet and Hecla Mine, now the 
 pride of the Town of Boston. 
 
CHAPTER V 
 
 'HE immediate result of the King 
 Street massacre was the removal 
 of the British troops from the 
 town of Boston to Castle Island in the 
 Harbor. Among the " Songs and Ballads 
 of the American Revolution " gathered 
 together and published by Frank Moore 
 (New York, 1856) is the following string 
 of verses entitled "A New Song 1770." 
 In a note prefixed to these wretched 
 doggerel rhymes, it is stated that they ap- 
 peared in a broadside a short time after 
 the massacre of the fifth of March, 1 770, 
 as a " new song " " much in vogue among 
 the friends to arbitrary power and the 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 soldiery at Castle Island (where it was 
 composed), since the troops have evacu- 
 ated the town of Boston." 
 
 Castlr 3lslanD 
 
 simple )15ostonians, 3|'D &abe vou betoare, 
 <&f vour JLibertv tftree, 31 tooulD tjabe vou take care, 
 jfor if tljat toe cijanrr to return to ttye toton, 
 Pour Ijouses ana stores toill come tumbling Doton, 
 SDerrv Doion, ooton, tyev oern> Doton* 
 
 31f ^ou toill not agree to olo CBnglano'0 latos, 
 31 fear tl)at toing J?ancocfe toill soon get ttyyaws : 
 But lie neeD not fear, for 31 stoear toe toill, 
 jfor tlje toant of a Doctor gibe Ijim a Ijara pill, 
 
 brabe reinforcement toe soon liopr to get ; 
 (E tirn toe toill make vou poor pumpkins to stoeat : 
 *0ur Drums tljrv'll rattle, anD tljen vou toill run 
 tty Debit himself from t&e sigljt of a gun. 
 
 tteet anD our arm^, t\)ty soon toill arribe, 
 to a bleak islanD, vou sljall not us Dribe* 
 31n eber^ Ijouse, ^ou sljall Ijabe tljree or four 
 0nD if tljat toill not please vou, vou shall Iwuc Ijalf 
 
 a score 
 2i>errv Doton, Doton, Ijev Derrv Doton, 
 
 Affixed to this choice example of bar- 
 rack-room braggadocio is the following 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 note giving an account of the Massacre of 
 the fifth of March and the funeral of the 
 victims : 
 
 "Two regiments of British troops un- 
 der command of Colonels Dalrymple and 
 Carr, arrived at Boston in the month of 
 September, 1768. The people of Boston 
 desired that they should be stationed at 
 the CASTLE, but * they landed with all 
 the appearance of hostility ! ' They 
 marched through the town with all the 
 ensigns of triumph, evidently designed to 
 subject the inhabitants to the severe disci- 
 pline of a garrison, and continued their 
 enormities by abusing the people. On 
 the second day of March 1 770, a quarrel 
 arose between two soldiers of the 29th 
 Regiment and the workmen at a rope 
 walk not far distant from the barracks. 
 The soldiers being repulsed soon made 
 another attack, having increased their 
 number to ten or twelve, but these were 
 also successfully resisted. In consequence 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 of these quarrels the soldiery declared they 
 would be avenged. The following account 
 of their proceedings is taken from The 
 Boston Chronicle of March 8, 1770. 'Last 
 Monday about 9 o'clock at night a most 
 unfortunate affair happened in King 
 Street. The sentinel posted at the Cus- 
 tom House being surrounded by a num- 
 ber of people, called to the mainguard, 
 upon which Captain Preston, with a 
 party, went to his assistance, soon after 
 which some of the party fired, by which 
 the following persons were killed. Sam- 
 uel Gray, rope maker, a mulatto man, 
 named Attucks, and Mr. James Caldwell. 
 Early the next morning Captain Preston 
 was committed to jail, and the same day 
 eight soldiers. A meeting of the inhabi- 
 tants was called at Faneuil Hall that fore- 
 noon, and the lieutenant-governor and 
 council met at the council chamber, 
 where the Colonels, Dalrymple and Carr 
 were desired to attend, when it was con- 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 eluded upon, that both regiments should 
 go down to the barracks at Castle Wil- 
 liam as soon as they were ready to receive 
 them. 
 
 " * The funeral of the victims of the 
 massacre was attended the 8th of March. 
 On this occasion the shops of the town 
 were closed, and all the bells were ordered 
 to be tolled, as were those of the neigh- 
 boring towns. The procession began to 
 move between 4 and 5 o'clock P.M., the 
 bodies of the two strangers, Caldwell 
 and Attucks, being borne from Faneuil 
 Hall, and those of the other victims from 
 the residence of their families, the hearses 
 meeting in King Street, near the scene of 
 the tragedy, and passing through the main 
 street, to the burial-ground, where the 
 bodies were all deposited in one vault. 
 Patrick Carr, who was wounded in the 
 affair, died on the I4th, and was buried 
 on the i yth, in the same vault with his 
 murdered associates.' " 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 The manuscript plan of King Street and 
 vicinity, the scene of the Boston massacre, 
 made by Revere which was used at the 
 trial of Captain Preston and his soldiers, 
 "for the murder of Crispus Attucks and 
 others March 5, 1770," held the follow- 
 ing October and November, in the old 
 State House * is now deposited in the 
 Boston Public Library, mounted on the 
 south wall of the Room for Younger 
 Readers. It forms a part of the remark- 
 ably rich Chamberlain collection of auto- 
 graphs, historical documents, portraits and 
 engravings relating to early American 
 history. 
 
 Castle William by BOSTON in New Eng- 
 land (afterwards named Fort Independ- 
 ence), on Castle Island, to which the 
 British soldiers were removed, was built 
 
 by COLLONELL RoMER A. D. 1724 BY 
 
 ORDER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, as 
 we are informed by the inscription on 
 
 * Old State House Memorial, Boston, 1882. 
 98 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 a copper-plate engraving which was prob- 
 ably executed shortly after the fort was 
 built. This print, which is here repro- 
 duced, measures 12 x 12^ inches. The 
 only copy of it that I have ever seen or 
 heard mentioned, is the one which has 
 been in my own possession more than 
 thirty years. There is a much smaller 
 engraving of Castle William in the "Mas- 
 sachusetts Magazine" 1789, an exact copy 
 of which, or an impression from the same 
 plate, also appears in > the " New Tork 
 Magazine" for October, 1796. 
 
 When the British left Castle William 
 they broke off the trunnions of the can- 
 non, an act of petty spite similar to and 
 as ineffectual as the one in which tradi- 
 tion says that King George's troops in- 
 dulged prior to their evacuation of our 
 own city of New York, when they greased 
 the flag-pole on the Battery and cut the 
 halyards. Before the British fleet had 
 passed out the Narrows, the damage had 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 been repaired, and the flag of the new- 
 born Republic was floating triumphantly in 
 the breeze. The trunnions of the cannon 
 at Castle William were restored with al- 
 most equal facility and promptness through 
 the ingenuity of Paul Revere. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI 
 
 HE anniversary of the tragedy 
 of the 5th of March, 1 770, was 
 commemorated by the people of 
 Boston until the close of the Revolution- 
 ary War. The printed " ORATIONS " de- 
 livered on these occasions by some of the 
 most distinguished sons of the State of 
 Massachusetts are naturally objects of in- 
 terest to the collector of books and prints 
 relating to our Revolutionary history. It 
 has now become a difficult matter to gather 
 together a complete set of these orations 
 in the original editions. The collection 
 of Mr. John A. Rice of Chicago, sold in 
 1870, lacked only three numbers the 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 years 1778, 1779, and 1780 of a com- 
 plete set. The Boston Massacre Orations 
 were published collectively by Peter Edes, 
 State Street, Boston, in [1785]. A second 
 edition was issued in 1807 by Wm. T. 
 Clap of the same city. 
 
 The successive speakers on these 
 commemorative occasions, were Thomas 
 Young, James Lovell, Benjamin Church, 
 John Hancock, Joseph Warren, Peter 
 Thacher, Benjamin Hichborn, Jonathan 
 W. Austin, William Tudor, Jonathan Ma- 
 son, Thomas Dawes, George R. Minot, 
 and Thomas Welsh thirteen in all. 
 
 The first copy made of Revere's en- 
 graving of the " Boston Massacre " is the 
 one which forms the frontispiece to the 
 Official "Short NARRATIVE of the horrid 
 Massacre in BOSTON PERPETRATED in 
 the evening of the Fifth Day of March 
 1770, by soldiers of the XXIX Regiment. 
 (Octavo). Printed by Order of the Town 
 
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ORATION, 
 
 DELIVERED 
 
 MARCH FIFTH, 1773. 
 
 A T T HE 
 
 REQUEST OF THE INHABITANTS 
 
 OF T HE 
 
 TOWN OP BOSTON; 
 
 T O 
 
 COMMEMORATE the BLOODY TRAGEDY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTH OP MARCH, 1770. 
 
 B Y 
 
 DR. BENJAMIN CHURCH, 
 
 Imptus hxc culta novalia miles habcbit ? 
 
 Karbarus has fcgetes ? En quo difcofdia cives 
 perduxit mifcros ? En qucit confevunu* agro> \ 
 
 ^ Vincit. EcL I. 
 
 O SOCII 
 
 O pafli praviorn, dablt Deus his quoquc fincm : 
 
 . rcvocate au'nuos, ma;iluitit]ue Umorein 
 
 mittite, l'orf;m ct hx-c olim meminifle juvabit. 
 
 VIRGIL. Mnc. j. 
 
 B S 3" 
 Printed id Sold at tlus NEW 
 
 near CONCERT -HALL. 
 
 M,DCC,LXXtH, 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 of BOSTON, and sold by EDES & GILL 
 in Queen-Street and T. & J. Fleet in 
 Cornhill, 1770." 
 
 This engraving has no inscription at 
 the top and measures only 4*4 x6% inches, 
 including the inscription below the en- 
 graving, which reads thus : 
 
 " The massacre perpetrated in King Street, 
 Boston on March 5, 1770, in which Messrs. 
 Sam 1 . Gray, Sam 1 . Maverick, "James Cald- 
 well, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr were 
 Killed, six others Wounded, two of them 
 Mortally." 
 
 It is not improbable that this engrav- 
 ing is the handiwork of Paul Revere, but 
 it cannot be identified as such. 
 
 This "Short Narrative" of Edes & 
 Gill was reprinted the same year by W. 
 BINGLEY in Newgate Street, London, 
 and it has for a frontispiece a copy of the 
 Massacre 8^ X 9 inches in size, exclusive 
 of the top and bottom inscriptions. It 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 is therefore about the same width, but 
 over an inch taller than Revere's original 
 engraving, the additional height being 
 simply an addition to the blank paper in 
 the sky of the picture, so that the print it- 
 self is virtually of the same dimensions as 
 the original and was doubtless intended 
 to be a fac-simile of it. 
 
 On this engraving the inscriptions which 
 appear on the original plate are re-arran- 
 ged and slightly amplified as follows: 
 
 AT TOP 
 
 "THE FRUITS OF ARBITRARY POWER; 
 or the BLOODY MASSACRE," 
 and so on as in the original, followed by 
 the names of the killed and wounded. 
 
 AT FOOT 
 
 The verses are the same as in the en- 
 graving by Revere himself, with the two 
 following biblical quotations added, one of 
 which is surmounted by a skull and cross- 
 bones within a wreath, the other by a Lib- 
 
 iofl 
 
Me*t 'J*am? Gray, Jfun?jraveru&.Ja?n<v Cold*? ell. Q-ispttJ jlttuck* 
 Patrick farr wfreKHl^i, JKT. 0th*r*> JVoundtft two 
 
 sZftH //t f, Atf.t/'+*t ''t/r/tftn 'f-^/fr 
 
PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 erty cap in clouds, from which issue forks 
 of lightning and two broken swords. 
 "How long fhall they "They flay the Widow 
 
 utter and fpeak hard things ? 
 and all the Workers of In- 
 iquity boast themfelves? 
 They break in pieces thy 
 People O LORD and af- 
 flict thine Heritage." Ps. 
 
 and the Stranger and mur- 
 der the Fatherless. Yet 
 they fay, The LORD (hall 
 not fee: neither fhall the 
 God of Jacob regard it." 
 Ps. xciv, 6, 7. 
 
 xciv, 4, 5. 
 
 Printed for and fold by W. BINGLEY in 
 Newgate Street. Price 6d. 
 
 I have seen copies of this print that 
 bore only the two devices above described, 
 without the scriptural quotations. It is 
 difficult to follow all the changes and 
 modifications to which not only Revere's 
 " Boston Massacre," but many other early 
 engravings, English and American, relat- 
 ing to the history of our country, have 
 been subjected in the passage of time. 
 
 Edes & Gill's "Short Narrative" was 
 also reprinted for E. and C. Dilly and J. 
 Almon, London, 1770 (8vo, pp. 166). 
 The engraving of the "Massacre "in this 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 edition is an exact reproduction of the 
 print, and of the inscription, as it appears 
 in the Edes & Gill Boston edition. 
 
 The Massachusetts Calendar or an Al- 
 manac for The Tear of our Lord I t JJ2. By 
 Philomathes . Published by Isaiah Thomas, 
 Boston, * contains a woodcut copy of the 
 " Massacre " 4% x 3^ inches in size with 
 the heading " The Boston Massacre per- 
 petrated on March the 5th, 1770," and 
 the following verses at the foot: 
 
 cUlnlr iSritons bieto tins seme untt) conscious 
 
 DreaD 
 
 *lnD pav tlje last saD tribute to tljr DeaD ; 
 cClljcU tliottglj tljr sljafts of fustier faintly gleam , 
 #nD ermin'D miscreants riDicule t^ie scene ; 
 
 let one breast t^e generous siglj Disclaim 
 cease to boto at j^reeDom's Ijalloiu'D fane; 
 
 uiitl) tlie tljottgljt let fame's louD clarion 
 
 siuell 
 
 3Fate to Distant times t^e SpurDer tell. 
 
 This is evidently the same woodcut 
 
 * There is a copy of this Almanac in the Lenox Library bought 
 at the Brinley Sale. 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 which was used by Isaiah Thomas in a 
 large broadside published by him in 1771, 
 where it appears in the upper left-hand 
 corner. A copy of this rude engraving, 
 somewhat enlarged, will be found on the 
 lining paper of the cover of this book. 
 
 I have in my possession another copy 
 of this noted engraving by Colonel Paul 
 Revere. It is of the same size as the one 
 which supplies the frontispiece to Edes 
 & Gill's "Short Narrative," and it bears 
 the same inscription, but differently capi- 
 talized, the capital letters in the words 
 Killed, Wounded, Mortally, in the Edes & 
 Gill print being reduced to small capi- 
 tals. This print is, however, without the 
 little dog, standing composedly in the 
 foreground of the picture apparently quite 
 indifferent to his unusual surroundings, 
 which appears in Revere's original en- 
 graving, and in all the other copies that 
 have fallen under my observation. This 
 engraving, probably, formed the frontis- 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 piece to a third London reprint of the 
 " Narrative," for Justin Winsor states in 
 his "Narrative and Critical History," that 
 it was reprinted in London in three edi- 
 tions in the same year. 
 
 Still another copy of the " Boston Mas- 
 sacre " came into my hands a few years 
 ago, which is of the same size as the orig- 
 inal, and colored in imitation of it, appar- 
 ently, by hand. It has the same lettering 
 at the top, but none at the foot except the 
 words in the margin of the print " En- 
 graved, Printed, and Sold by Paul Revere." 
 It closely resembles the original, but has 
 a decidedly modern appearance, and the 
 engraving shows a few cross-hatchings 
 where none exist in Revere's engraving. 
 It is, doubtless, a re-engraved copy. 
 
 A print in the Lenox Library (Emmet 
 Collection), resembles the one above de- 
 scribed, except that it is uncolored, and it 
 has the same inscription beneath that we 
 find in Revere's original engraving with 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 the addition of the words " copyright 
 secured." There did exist another line, 
 which has been carefully erased, but ap- 
 pears to have borne the date of 1832. I 
 have arrived at the conclusion that this 
 print and the one described in the pre- 
 ceding paragraph are identical, and that 
 in both cases there has been an attempt to 
 deceive and foist them off as original im- 
 pressions of the engraving by Paul Re- 
 vere. I am also inclined to believe that 
 both these prints are from the same plate 
 as the uncolored copy of the " Massacre " 
 in the possession of Mr. Charles A. Munn, 
 of this city, and the colored one in the 
 Bostonian Society, both of which have 
 upon them the following lettering: 
 
 Copy Right Secured 
 
 Boston (Fac-Simi/e) Republished at 15 Water Street 
 1832 
 
 Another reprint of the " Massacre," I 
 learn by hearsay, was published in New- 
 buryport, Mass., about the year 1830, 
 
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PAUL REVERE 
 
 and still another in Salem, Mass., about 
 1838. In the Newburyport plate, I un- 
 derstand the name Revere is taken out, 
 and that of Millikin inserted and there 
 are slight variations from the original in 
 the lettering of the inscriptions the 
 substitution of y e for the, etc. There ap- 
 pear therefore to have been three early 
 nineteenth-century re-engravings of this 
 famous print. The Boston fac-simile, 
 which is the only one that I have seen, is 
 a remarkably faithful copy of the original. 
 So well executed is it, that, when colored 
 by hand, as is frequently the case, it is 
 only the sound and clean condition that 
 copies of it generally present, that at first 
 sight arouses a suspicion of their genuine- 
 ness. Copies of these early "fac-fimiles" 
 do not of course compare in value with 
 the original impressions from Revere's 
 own copper-plate, still, strange as it may 
 appear, some of them seem to be of equal, 
 if not greater rarity. A long summer day's 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 careful search in Boston and Salem, Mass., 
 recently made by Mr. John P. Woodbury 
 and the writer, failed to bring to light any 
 of these copies save the one published at 
 15 Water Street, Boston, another impres- 
 sion of which was found in the rooms of 
 the New England Historic Genealogical 
 Society, 18 Bullfinch Street, Boston. 
 
 Of modern reprints of the "Massacre" 
 there have been a number, the first, I un- 
 derstand, to be the one in John Doggett, 
 Jr's., reprint of the " Short Narrative," 
 with notes and illustrations, New York, 
 1849. The next copy that I find is the 
 one which fronts the title-page in the 
 " History of the Boston Massacre," by 
 Frederic Kidder, printed by Joel Mun- 
 sell, Albany, 1870. This is a photo- 
 lithographic copy of the print 5^x4 
 inches in size. It is without the dog. 
 This photo-lithographic print supplies the 
 frontispiece to the copy of Mr. Kidder's 
 book in the Lenox Library, but singularly 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 the copy of the same book in the New 
 York Historical Society does not contain 
 it, but has instead " A New and Accurate 
 Plan of the Town of Boston in NEW Eng- 
 land." The Memorial of the Re-dedica- 
 tion of the Old State House, Boston, 
 July n, 1882, also contains, at page 82 
 a process plate reproduction of " The 
 State Street Massacre." Doubtless a num- 
 ber of other similar cheaply made copies 
 are extant, but when we find ourselves 
 among the photo this, and photo that, 
 reproductions of early American engrav- 
 ings it is time to call a halt. 
 
 How many impressions of the " Mas- 
 sacre" plate besides the two hundred copies 
 furnished to Messrs. Edes & Gill, were 
 originally printed and sold by Revere, we 
 have no means of knowing, but, taking 
 into account the general and profound in- 
 terest in the tragic occurrence which the 
 picture portrays albeit in its own crude 
 and ungainly fashion it is reasonable to 
 
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AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 presume that at least as many copies of it 
 as were supplied to this prominent firm 
 of Boston book-sellers and publishers, were 
 issued by Revere as prints for framing pur- 
 poses. Of these not many more than a 
 baker's dozen appear, so far, to have es- 
 caped the vicissitudes to which books and 
 prints are heir. Those that I am able at 
 this present writing to trace are deposited 
 in the following named Public Libraries, 
 Societies and private collections: 
 
 One in the Bostonian Society, in the 
 Old State House, where, with other relics 
 of Colonial times in china, arms, equip- 
 ments, old silver, and Franklin's printing 
 press, it overlooks the very spot, now 
 marked by a circle in the block pave- 
 ment, where the massacre occurred.* 
 
 This copy of the "Massacre" has an 
 
 * In 1896 the Bostonian Society erected a bronze tablet on 
 the corner of the Merchants' National Bank Building at Ex- 
 change and State Streets, bearing this inscription: 
 
 " OPPOSITE THIS SPOT / WAS SHED THE FIRST BLOOD / 
 OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION/ MARCH 5TH, 1770." 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 interesting history. It was a gift from 
 Eliza Susan Quincy of Boston Septem- 
 ber 29, 1882 the year that the Boston- 
 ian Society was founded, and bears the 
 following inscriptions on the back of the 
 frame : 
 
 "Given in 1825 to Josiah Quincy, (1772-1864) 
 by his aunt, Mrs. Storer, sister of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 
 who defended Capt. Preston." 
 
 crown on the water mark of this paper 
 is reversed. Was this accidental or an intended 
 slight by Paul Revere ', the engraver and printer? " 
 " 'This print was given to Josiah Quincy, 1825, 
 by his aunt Mrs. Hannah Storer , soon after the 
 publication of her brother Josiah Quincy , Jr.'s 
 Life by his son." 
 
 Josiah ghiincy, Jr., 1770, was applied to by 
 Captain Preston to take part of his counsel im- 
 mediately before John Adams was sent for. 
 Signed Eliza Susan Quincy , 
 
 5 Park St., Boston, 
 
 Mch. 5, 1870. 
 
 Other copies of the " Massacre," of the 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 existence of which I am creditably in- 
 formed are as follows: 
 
 Two copies in possession of Zachary T. Hollings- 
 
 worth, Boston. 
 Two copies in possession of the Estate of Frederick 
 
 W. French, Boston.* 
 
 One copy in possession of G. R. Barrett of Boston. 
 Two copies in possession of the Essex Institute, Salem. 
 " " " " " " Massachusetts Histori- 
 cal Society. 
 
 * BOSTON MASSACRE, BY PAUL REVERE 
 
 128 BOSTON Massacre. The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in 
 King Street, Boston, on March 5th, 1770, by a party 
 of the 9th Regt. Engrav'd, Printed & Sold by Paul 
 Revere, Boston. In contemporary frame. 
 AN ORIGINAL COLORZD engraving by Paul Revere. 
 With the following identification on the back : 
 " This representation of the King (now State) Street 
 Massacre, is an original and vjas engraved and printed 
 by Paul Revere. 
 
 "It came into my possession from my father, Thomas 
 
 Jones Lee, 'who died in fSjd, and previously belonged 
 
 to his father, Rev. Joseph Lee, ofRoyalston, Mass., ivho 
 
 died in 1819 Thos. J. Lee, June, 1872." 
 
 The above is the description in the sale catalogue of one of 
 
 the copies formerly owned by Mr. French. This impression 
 
 sold at the sale of his library in April, 1901, for $800 a 
 
 remarkable advance over the previous private sale of a copy 
 
 for $300. The remaining copy formerly owned by Mr. French 
 
 is still, I am told, in the possession of the family. 
 
 1*1 
 
PAUL REVERE 
 
 One copy in possession of Henry C. Eno, N. Y. 
 " " ," " " Edwin B. Holden, N. Y. 
 " " " " " E. D wight Church, N. Y. 
 
 " R. T. H. Halsey, N. Y. 
 " " " " " Wm. L. Andrews, N. Y. 
 
 and a copy which was sold some two or 
 three years ago, in Philadelphia for, as it 
 was reported, the sum of $350. There 
 may be, and probably are, other copies in 
 existence, that have as yet evaded the 
 wide-spread search of the lynx-eyed print- 
 hunter; so that the engraving of the 
 "Boston Massacre" by Paul Revere can- 
 not be deemed a very rare print ; but if we 
 take into consideration the historic interest 
 of the subject, and the national reputation 
 of the engraver as one of the heroic and 
 romantic figures of his time, it may, I 
 think, with justice be regarded as one of 
 the most important and valuable prints, 
 from an American collector's point of view, 
 that has been left us as an heritage from 
 the past. 
 
AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 It is apparent that with the possible 
 exception of the portraits of The Honor- 
 able John Hancock, Esqr., and Mr. Samuel 
 Adams the illustrations contributed by 
 Revere to " The Royal American Maga- 
 zine" and to Captain Cook's Voyages, are 
 no more nor less than copies of earlier 
 prints. The question as to which, if any, 
 of Revere's other engravings including 
 the Boston Massacre are from his own 
 designs or are copied after drawings^ by 
 Christian Remick, Henry Pelham or some 
 nameless and forgotten draughtsman of that 
 age, is a knotty point which I leave to a 
 future writer on the subject to puzzle over 
 and determine at his leisure. 
 
 In conclusion I desire gratefully to 
 acknowledge my indebtedness to the book- 
 and print-collectors not a few, who have 
 so . kindly placed the treasures of their 
 cabinets at my disposal and rendered me 
 other welcome and valuable assistance, and 
 last but not least, I have to thank the type 
 
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PAUL REVERE AND HIS ENGRAVING 
 
 and plate printers, the designers and the 
 engravers who have collaborated with me 
 in the making of this book with the 
 " care and honest pains" which only those 
 can exercise who are truly enamoured of 
 their art. I trust that the reader who 
 scans these pages may experience at least a 
 moiety of the pleasure which has come to 
 the writer of them through the feeling of 
 good fellowship engendered among, and 
 the hearty interest manifested by, all who 
 have had a part in the production of this 
 modest, and I am conscious imperfect essay 
 upon Paul Revere and his Engraving. 
 
LETTER FROM 
 COL. PAUL REVERE 
 
 FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 COLLECTIONS 
 
 BOSTON, January i, 1798. 
 the fall of 1774 and winter of 1775 
 I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly 
 mechanics, who formed ourselves into 
 a committee for the purpose of watch- 
 ing the movements of the British soldiers and 
 gaining every intelligence of the movements of 
 the Tories. We held our meetings at the Green 
 Dragon tavern. We were so careful that our 
 meetings should be kept secret that every time 
 we met every person swore upon the Bible that 
 they would not discover any of our transactions, 
 but to Messrs. Hancock, Adams, Doctors 
 Warren, Church, and one or two more. 
 
 About November, when things began to 
 grow serious, a gentleman who had connections 
 with the Tory party, but was a Whig at heart, 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 acquainted me that our meetings were discov- 
 ered, and mentioned the identical words that 
 were spoken among us the night before. We 
 did not then distrust Dr. Church, but supposed 
 it must be someone among us. We removed 
 to another place, which we thought was more 
 secure ; but here we found that all our transac- 
 tions were communicated to Governor Gage. 
 (This came to me . through the then Secretary 
 Flucker ; he told it to the gentleman mentioned 
 above.) It was then a common opinion that 
 there was a traitor in the Provincial Congress, 
 and that Gage was possessed of all their secrets. 
 (Church was a member of that Congress for 
 Boston.) In the winter, towards the spring, 
 we frequently took turns, two and two, to watch 
 the soldiers by patrolling the streets all night. 
 The Saturday night preceding the I9th of April, 
 about twelve o'clock at night, the boats belong- 
 ing to the transports were all launched and 
 carried under the sterns of the men-of-war. 
 (They had been previously hauled up and re- 
 paired.) We likewise found that the grenadiers 
 and light infantry were all taken off duty. 
 
 From these movements we expected that 
 something serious was to be transacted. On 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
 Tuesday evening, the 1 8th, it was observed that 
 a number of soldiers were marching towards the 
 bottom of the Common. About ten o'clock 
 Dr. Warren sent in great haste for me and 
 begged that I would immediately set off for 
 Lexington, where Messrs. Hancock and Adams 
 were, and acquaint them of the movement, and 
 that it was thought they were the objects. 
 When I got to Dr. Warren's house I found he 
 had sent an express by land to Lexington a 
 Mr. William Dawes. The Sunday before, by 
 desire of Dr. Warren, I had been to Lexington, 
 to Messrs. Hancock and Adams, who were at 
 the. Rev. Mr. Clark's. I returned at night 
 through Charlestown ; there I agreed with a 
 Colonel Conant and some other gentlemen 
 that if the British went out by water, we would 
 show two lanterns in the north church steeple ; 
 and if by land, one, as a signal ; for we were 
 apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the 
 Charles River or get over Boston Neck. I left 
 Dr. Warren, called upon a friend, and desired 
 him to make the signals. I then went home, 
 took my boots and surtout, went to the north 
 part of the town, where I had kept a boat ; two 
 friends rowed me across Charles River, a little 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 to the eastward, where the Somerset man-of-war 
 lay. It was then young flood, the ship was 
 winding, and the moon was rising. They landed 
 me on the Charlestown side. When I got into 
 town I met Colonel Conant and several others ; 
 they said they had seen our signals. I told 
 them what was acting, and went to get me a 
 horse ; I got a horse of Deacon Larkin. While 
 the horse was preparing, Richard Devens, Esq., 
 who was one of the Committee of Safety, came 
 to me and told me that he came down the road 
 from Lexington after sundown that evening ; 
 that he met ten British officers, all well mounted 
 and armed, going up the road. 
 
 I set off upon a very good horse ; it was 
 then about 1 1 o'clock, and very pleasant. 
 After I had passed Charlestown neck, and got 
 nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains, 
 I saw two men on horseback, under a tree. 
 When I got near them, I discovered they were 
 British officers. One tried to get ahead of me, 
 and the other to take me. I turned my horse 
 very quick, and galloped towards Charlestown 
 neck, and then pushed for the Medford road. 
 The one who chased me, endeavoring to cut 
 me off, got into a clay pond, near where the 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
 new tavern is now built. I got clear of him, 
 and went through Medford, over the bridge, and 
 up to Menotomy. In Medford, I awaked the 
 Captain of the minute men ; and after that, I 
 alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexing- 
 ton. I found Messrs. Hancock and Adams at 
 the Rev. Mr. Clark's ; I told them my errand, 
 and inquired for Mr. Dawes ; they said he had 
 not been there ; I related the story of the two of- 
 ficers, and supposed that he must have been 
 stopped, as he ought to have been there before 
 me. After I had been there about half an hour, 
 Mr. Dawes came; we refreshed ourselves, and 
 set off for Concord to secure the stores, etc., 
 there. We were overtaken by a young Dr. Pres- 
 cott, whom we found to be a high son of liberty. 
 I told them of the ten officers that Mr. Devens 
 met, and that it was probable we might be 
 stopped before we got to Concord ; for I sup- 
 posed that after night they divided themselves, 
 and that two of them had fixed themselves in 
 such passages as were most likely to stop any in- 
 telligence going to Concord. I likewise men- 
 tioned that we had better alarm all the inhabit- 
 ants till we got to Concord ; the young doctor 
 much approved of it, and said he would stop 
 
 131 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 with either of us, for the people between that 
 and Concord knew him, and would give the 
 more credit to what we said. We had got 
 nearly half way ; Mr. Dawes and the Doctor 
 stopped to alarm the people of a house ; I was 
 about one hundred rods ahead when I saw two 
 men, in nearly the same situation as those 
 officers were, near Charlestown. I called for 
 the Doctor and Mr. Dawes to come up ; in an 
 instant I was surrounded by four they had 
 placed themselves in a straight road, that in- 
 clined each way ; they had taken down a pair of 
 bars on the north side of the road, and two of 
 them were under a tree in the pasture. The 
 Doctor being foremost, he came up ; and we 
 tried to get past them, but they being armed 
 with pistols and swords, they forced us into the 
 pasture; the Doctor jumped his horse over a 
 low stone wall, and got to Concord. I observed 
 a wood at a small distance, and made for that. 
 When I got there, out started six officers on 
 horseback, and ordered me to dismount ; one of 
 them, who appeared to have command, ex- 
 amined me where I came from and what my 
 name was. I told him. He asked me if I was 
 an express. I answered in the affirmative. He 
 
 13* 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 demanded what time I left Boston. I told him, 
 and added that their troops had catched aground 
 in passing the river, and that there would be 
 five hundred Americans there in a short time, 
 for I had alarmed the country all the way up. 
 He immediately rode towards those who stopped 
 us, when all five of them came down upon a 
 full gallop ; one of them whom I afterwards 
 found to be a Major Mitchell, of the 5th Regi- 
 ment, clapped his pistol to my head, called me 
 by name, and told me he was going to ask me 
 some questions, and if I did not give him true 
 answers, he would blow my brains out. He 
 then asked me similar questions to those above. 
 He then ordered me to mount my horse, after 
 searching me for arms. He then ordered them 
 to advance, and to lead me in front. When we 
 got to the road, they turned down towards 
 Lexington. When we got about one mile, the 
 Major rode up to the officer that was leading 
 me, and told him to give me to the Sergeant. 
 As soon as he took me, the Major ordered him, 
 if I attempted to run, or anybody insulted 
 them, to blow my brains out. We rode till 
 we got near Lexington meeting-house, where 
 the militia fired a volley of guns, which ap- 
 
 133 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 peared to alarm them very much. The Major 
 inquired of me how far it was to Cambridge, 
 and if there were any other road. After some 
 consultation, the Major rode up to the Ser- 
 geant and asked if his horse was tired. He 
 answered him he was (he was a Sergeant of 
 Grenadiers, and had a small horse) then, said 
 he, take that man's horse. I dismounted, and 
 the Sergeant mounted my horse, when they all 
 rode towards Lexington meeting-house. I 
 went across the burying ground and some pas- 
 tures, and came to the Rev. Mr. Clark's house, 
 where I found Messrs. Hancock and Adams. 
 I told them of my treatment, and they con- 
 cluded to go from that house towards Woburn. 
 I went with them, and a Mr. Lowell, who was a 
 clerk to Mr. Hancock. When we got to the 
 house where they intended to stop, Mr. Lowell 
 and myself returned to Mr. Clark's, to find 
 what was going on. When we got there, an 
 elderly man came in ; he said he had just come 
 from the tavern, that a man had come from 
 Boston, who said there were no British troops 
 coming. Mr. Lowell and myself went towards 
 the tavern, when we met a man on a full gallop, 
 who told us the troops were coming up the 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 road. We afterwards met another who said 
 they were close by. Mr. Lowell asked me to 
 go to the tavern with him to get a trunk of 
 papers belonging to Mr. Hancock. We went 
 up chamber; and while we were getting the 
 trunk, we saw the British very near, upon a 
 full march. We hurried towards Mr. Clark's 
 house. In our way, we passed through the 
 militia. There were about fifty. When we 
 had got about one hundred yards from the 
 meeting-house, the British troops appeared on 
 both sides of the meeting-house. In their front 
 was an officer on horseback. They made a 
 short halt ; when I saw, and beard, a gun fired, 
 which appeared to be a pistol. Then I could 
 distinguish two guns, and then a continual roar 
 of musquetry, when we made off with the trunk. 
 As I have mentioned Dr. Church, perhaps 
 it might not be disagreeable to mention some 
 matters of my own knowledge, respecting him. 
 He appeared to be a high son of liberty. He 
 frequented all the places where they met, was 
 encouraged by all the leaders of the sons of 
 liberty, and it appeared he was respected by 
 them, though I knew that Dr. Warren had not 
 the greatest affection for him. He was esteemed 
 135 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 a very capable writer, especially in verse ; and 
 as the Whig party needed every strength, they 
 feared, as well as courted him. Though it was 
 known that some of the liberty songs which he 
 composed were parodized by him in favor of 
 the British, yet none dare charge him with it. 
 I was a constant and critical observer of him, 
 and I must say that I never thought him a man 
 of principle ; and I doubted much in my own 
 mind whether he was a real Whig. I knew that 
 he kept company with a Captain Price, a half- 
 pay British officer, and that he frequently dined 
 with him and Robinson, "one of the Commis- 
 sioners. I know that one of his intimate 
 acquaintance asked him why he was so often 
 with Robinson and Price. His answer was 
 that he kept company with them on purpose to 
 find out their plans. The day after the battle 
 of Lexington I met him in Cambridge, when he 
 showed me some blood on his stocking which 
 he said spirted on him from a man who was 
 killed near him as he was urging the militia on. 
 I well remember that I argued with myself, if 
 a man will risk his life in a cause he must be a 
 friend to that cause ; and I never suspected him 
 after till he was charged with being a traitor. 
 
 136 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 The same day I met Dr. Warren. He was 
 president of the committee of safety. He en- 
 gaged me as a messenger to do the out-of-doors 
 business for that committee, which gave me an 
 opportunity of being frequently with them. 
 The Friday evening after, about sunset, I was 
 sitting with some, or near all that committee, in 
 their room, which was at Mr. Hasting's house 
 in Cambridge. Dr. Church all at once started 
 up " Dr. Warren," said he, " I am determined 
 to go into Boston to-morrow " (it set them all 
 a-staring) Dr. Warren replied, " Are you se- 
 rious, Dr. Church ? They will hang you if they 
 catch you in Boston." He replied, " I am 
 serious and am determined to go at all adven- 
 tures." After a considerable conversation Dr. 
 Warren said, " If you are determined let us 
 make some business for you." They agreed 
 that he should go to get medicine for their and 
 our wounded officers. He went the next morn- 
 ing, and, I think, he came back on Sunday 
 evening. After he had told the committee how 
 things were I took him aside and inquired par- 
 ticularly how they treated him. He said, that 
 as soon as he got to their lines, on Boston 
 neck, they made him a prisoner and carried him 
 137 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 to General Gage, where he was examined, and 
 then he was sent to Gould's barracks, and was 
 not suffered to go home but once. After he 
 was taken up for holding a correspondence -with 
 the British, I came across Deacon Caleb Davis 
 we entered into conversation about him he 
 told me that the morning Church went into 
 Boston he (Davis) received a billet for General 
 Gage (he then did not know that Church was 
 in town) when he got to the general's house 
 .he was told the general could not be spoken 
 with, that he was in private with a gentleman ; 
 that he waited near half an hour when General 
 Gage and Dr. Church came out of a room 
 discoursing together like persons who had been 
 long acquainted. He appeared to be quite 
 surprised at seeing Deacon Davis there ; that 
 he (Church) went where he pleased while in 
 Boston, only a Major Caine, one of Gage's aids, 
 went with him. I was told by another person, 
 whom I could depend upon, that he saw Church 
 go into General Gage's house at the above time ; 
 that he got out of the chaise and went up the 
 steps more like a man that was acquainted than 
 a prisoner. 
 
 Sometime after, perhaps a year or two, I fell 
 138 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 in company with a gentleman who studied with 
 Church ; in discoursing about him I related 
 what I have mentioned above ; he said he did 
 not doubt that he was in the interest of the 
 British, and that it was he who informed 
 General Gage that he knew for certain that 
 a short time before the battle of Lexington (for 
 he then lived with him and took care of his 
 business and books) he had no money by him, 
 and was much drove for money ; that all at 
 once he had several hundred new British 
 guineas, and that he thought at the time where 
 they came from. 
 
 Thus, sir, I have endeavored to give you a 
 short detail of some matters of which, perhaps, 
 no person but myself have documents or know- 
 ledge. I have mentioned some names which 
 you are acquainted with ; I wish you would ask 
 them if they can remember the circumstance I 
 allude to. 
 
 I am, sir, with every sentiment of esteem, 
 your humble servant, 
 
 PAUL REVERE. 
 
ACCOUNT OF CHRISTIAN REMICK * 
 
 BY LIEUT. OLIVER PHILBRICK REMICK 
 
 U. 8. REVENUE MARINE SERVICE 
 
 HRISTIAN REMICK. Born April 
 8, 1726. He seems to have been a 
 sailor, and master mariner also ; 
 and probably learned the art of navigating 
 from his uncle, Abraham Remick. He mar- 
 ried Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Myrick, and 
 they probably lived in Boston most of their 
 lives, although they also lived in Eastham and 
 Harwich, Mass. 
 
 He seems to have been engaged in painting 
 and drawing in water colors [a curious and in- 
 teresting water color of Boston Common painted 
 by him is now being engraved by Mr. Sidney 
 L. Smith], also making geographical plans of 
 harbors, sea coasts, etc. His advertisement in 
 the Boston Gazette and County Post Boy and 
 
 * The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 
 Vol. XLVII, October, 1893. 
 
 140 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 Journal of October 16, 1769, and subsequent 
 issues is as follows : 
 
 " Christian Remick, lately from Spain, Begs 
 Leave to inform the Public, That he performs 
 all sorts of Drawing and Water Colours, such 
 as Sea Pieces, Prospective Views, Geographical 
 Plans of Harbours, Sea Coasts, etc. Also Col- 
 ours Pictures to the Life and Draws Coats of 
 Arms at the most reasonable Rates. Specimens 
 of his Performances, particularly an accurate 
 View of the Blockade of Boston, with the 
 landing the British Troops on the first of Oc- 
 tober, 1768, may be seen at the Golden Ball 
 and Bunch of Grapes Taverns, or at Mr. 
 Thomas Bradford's, North End, Boston." 
 
 Christian Remick painted several copies of 
 this view of the landing of British troops in Bos- 
 ton in 1768. The New England Historic 
 Genealogical Society and the Essex Institute 
 each owns a copy, and one belongs to W. H. 
 Whitmore of Boston, being that formerly owned 
 by Miss Otis. These are respectively dedica- 
 ted to Gibbons Sharp, Jonathan Peal and John 
 Hancock. These pictures are each 54 inches 
 by 9. A reduced engraving therefrom is in 
 Stark's " Antique Views of Boston." 
 141 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 A picture of Boston from the water, showing 
 this landing of troops, was engraved by Paul 
 Revere. A copy of it colored by Christian Rem- 
 ickj hangs in the old State House in Boston ; it 
 belongs to ex-Mayor Green. Remick probably 
 did not make much money at this business ; and 
 so we find him in September, 1777, sent on 
 shore with other prisoners at Townsend and 
 Sheepscot River, Maine, from H. M. S. " Rain- 
 bow." He had undoubtedly been captured 
 from some privateer or Massachusetts State 
 vessel. 
 
 He was Pilot and Lieutenant of the brig- 
 antine " Tyrannicide " of the Massachusetts 
 State Navy in 1778 ; and was Prize Master 
 and Lieutenant with Captain John Manley on 
 the Continental frigate " La Hague." He served 
 throughout the war, and was alive in July, 1783, 
 when he was probably living in Eastham, Mass. 
 
ri ri m a n in n 
 
 n fi fi-n nn 
 
FROM THE 
 
 ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE 
 FOR MAY, 1774 
 
 THE Explanation of the INDIAN GAZETTE, giv- 
 ing an Account of one of their Expeditions. 
 The following divisions explain those on the plate, 
 as referred to by the numbers. 
 
 EACH of thefe figures 
 reprefent the number ten. 
 They all fignify that 18 
 times 10, or 180 Ameri- 
 can Indians, took up the 
 hatchet, or declared war, 
 in favour of the French, 
 which is reprefented by 
 the hatchet placed over 
 the arms of France. 
 
 They went by water 
 fignified by the canoe. The 
 number of huts, fuch as 
 they raise to pass the night 
 in, fhows they were 21 
 days on their pajfage. 
 
 They departed from 
 Montreal reprefented by 
 the bird ju/f taking wing, 
 from the top of a mountain. 
 The moon and the buck 
 Jhow the time to have been 
 in the firft quarter of the 
 B UCK-MOON, answer- 
 ing to JULY. 
 
 Then they came on 
 (bore and travelled seven 
 days by land reprefented 
 by the FOOT, and the 
 feven huts. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 When they arrived 
 near the habitations of 
 their enemies, at fun-rife 
 -fhewn by the fun being 
 to the eaftward of them, 
 beginning as they think, its 
 daily courfe; there they lay 
 in wait three days repre- 
 fented by the HAND 
 pointing and the j huts. 
 
 7 
 
 They killed with the 
 club ii of their enemies 
 and took five prifoners. 
 The former reprefented by 
 the club, and the 1 1 heads, 
 the latter, by the figures on 
 the little pedejlals. 
 
 The heads of the arrows, 
 pointing opposite ways, rep- 
 resent the battle. 
 
 After which they fur- 
 prized their enemies, in 
 number 12 times 10 or 
 1 2O. The man afleep 
 fhows how they surprifed 
 them, and the hole in the 
 top of the building, is fup- 
 pofed to fignify, that they 
 broke into feme of the habi- 
 tations in that manner. 
 
 8 
 
 They loft 9 of their 
 own men in the a&ion 
 reprefented by the 9 heads 
 within the bow, which is 
 the emblem of honour among 
 the AMERICANS: but 
 had none taken prifoners 
 a circumflance they lay 
 great weight on, Jhewn by 
 all the pedejlals being empty. 
 
 10 
 
 The heads of the arrows 
 all pointing the same way, 
 signify the flight of the enemy. 
 
 This print is engraved from an authentic copy, 
 drawn by a French engineer from the American 
 original.* 
 
 * The Gazette and the Explanation as above printed will be 
 found copied verbatim by Isaiah Thomas in his " History of 
 Printing," Vol. II, pp. 190, but he does not inform us from 
 whence it was taken. 
 
INDEX 
 
INDEX 
 
 Adams, Samuel, patriot 26 
 Aitkin, R. His copy of 
 Romans 1 engraving of 
 the "Late Battle at 
 Charlestown" . 56, 57 
 Allen, Charles Dexter. His 
 work on American 
 Book Plates " quoted 
 
 77, 7 
 
 Allen's American Biogra- 
 phical Dictionary. Its 
 notice of REVERE . 9,10 
 
 American Herald, Bos- 
 ton, Advertisement of 
 REVERE' s business in, 6, 7 
 
 American Magazine and 
 Historical Chronicle. 
 The Title-page en- 
 graved by J. Turner . 45 
 
 Andrews, W. L. His copy 
 of the " BOSTON MAS- 
 SACRE" engraving 113, 
 
 114, 122 
 
 Attucks, a mulatto, 
 killed in the King 
 Street MASSACRE . . 96 
 Funeral of . . . .97 
 
 Barrett, G. R., owner 
 of a copy of the " BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE" en- 
 graving 121 
 
 Billings, Mr., author of 
 "The New England 
 Psalm Singer or Amer- 
 ican Chorister" . .60 
 
 Bingley, W., Publisher 107 
 
 Book-Plates. Those en- 
 graved by REVERE 77, 78 
 
 Boston Chronicle, Ac- 
 count of the King 
 Street MASSACRE in 96 
 
 Boston Gazette and County 
 Journal, Advertisement 
 of REVERE' s " A View 
 of Boston" appears in 40 
 
 Boston Independent Chron- 
 icle and Universal Ad- 
 vertiser. REVERE' s bus- 
 iness advertisements in 8 
 
 Boston Liberty Tree, 
 The 36 
 
 Boston, REVERE' s "A 
 View of the Town of" 
 
 37Ct seq. 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Boston, REVERE' s "A 
 View of the Town of" 
 This engraving not the 
 
 first 45 
 
 Rarity of the print . . 49 
 Plan of Boston. The en- 
 graving by Thomas 
 Johnston . . . 45, 47 
 
 BOSTON MASSACRE, 
 the most celebrated of 
 REVERE' s Engravings . 52 
 Description of the en- 
 graving . . 78 et seq. 
 The copy owned by 
 the New York Historical 
 Society . . 84 et seq. 
 The original plate now 
 owned by the State of 
 Massachusetts . . .87 
 Recent impressions from 
 
 it 88 
 
 Location of various 
 copies of the engraving 
 
 104 et seq. 
 
 First copy in the 
 " Short Narrative of the 
 Horrid Massacre in Bos- 
 ton" 104 
 
 Various Reprints 
 
 104 et seq. 
 The recent sale of a 
 
 copy 122 
 
 Not considered an 
 especially rare print. 122 
 
 BOSTON MASSACRE Ora- 
 tions, The . 103, 104 
 
 Boston Public Library, 
 REVERE'S "Plan of the 
 BOSTON MASSACRE " 
 in 98 
 
 Bostonian Society possesses 
 a copy of REVERE'S 
 "A View of Boston" 40 
 
 Bostonian Society. Its im- 
 pressions of the half- 
 plate of REVERE'S 
 " Westerly View of the 
 Colledges in Cam- 
 bridge in New Eng- 
 land " . . . 50, 51 
 Its copy of the " BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE" en- 
 graving 115 
 
 Boston Tea Party, The, 23 
 
 Brahm, John Gerard de. 
 His mention of Romans 
 as a draughtsman . .58 
 
 Burgis, William, Pub- 
 lisher . . . 46, 50 
 
 Burnet, William, Governor 46 
 Dedication to him of 
 Johnston's " Plan of 
 Boston" .... 46 
 
 Byles, Mather, D.D. 64, 65 
 
 Caldwell, James, killed 
 in the King Street 
 MASSACRE .... 96 
 Funeral of . . . .97 
 
 Caricature, Propensity for, 
 in Revolutionary days. 32 
 
 Carr, Col. One of the 
 commanders of the Brit- 
 ish at Boston . . .95 
 
 Carr, Patrick, killed in the 
 King Street MASSACRE 97 
 
 Castle Island, Boston Har- 
 bor, Removal of British 
 Troops to .... 91 
 Song of ... 92, 93 
 The Site of Castle Wil- 
 liam, afterward Fort 
 Independence . . .98 
 
 Castle William on Castle 
 Island, afterwards called 
 Fort Independence . 98 
 
 150 
 
INDEX 
 
 PACK 
 
 Castle William on Castle 
 Island, Engravings of 98 
 Destruction by the Brit- 
 ish of the trunnions of 
 the cannon in . . . 101 
 
 Chadwick, Jos., his draw- 
 ing of the " Westerly 
 View of the Colledges in 
 Cambridge in New Eng- 
 land" 50 
 
 Church, Thomas, author 
 of "The Entertaining 
 History of King Philip's 
 War" .... 52, S3 
 
 Church, Col. Benjamin, 
 REVERE' s imaginary 
 portrait of .... 53 
 
 Church, E. Dwight, owner 
 of a copy of the " BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE" en- 
 graving 122 
 
 Clap, Wm. T., Publisher. 104 
 
 Cook, Captain. His "Voy- 
 ages" 52 
 
 Cook's "Voyages," Il- 
 lustrations in, by RE- 
 VERE 52 
 
 A much sought for vol- 
 ume 53 
 
 Collation of the illustra- 
 tions in, . . . 54, 55 
 REVERE' s contributions 
 to, mostly copies . .123 
 
 Copper, The scarcity of, in 
 Revolutionary times 8 9, 90 
 
 Cromwell's Head Inn . 66 
 
 Dalrymple, Col., one of 
 the British comman- 
 ders at Boston . . .95 
 
 Doggett, John, Jr. His re- 
 print of the " Short 
 Narrative " . . .117 
 
 FACE 
 
 Dudley, Dorothy. Her ref- 
 erence to PAUL RE- 
 VERE' s shop in Boston 30 
 
 Dunlap, William. His 
 " History of the Arts of 
 Design in the U. S." 45 
 
 Duyckinck, E. A., author 
 of the " Cyclopaedia 
 of American Litera- 
 ture " . ... 58 
 
 Edes & Gill's "North 
 American Almanac, * ' 
 A copy of REVERE' s 
 " View of Boston "in 42 
 
 Edes, Peter, Publisher . 104 
 
 Engravers, Early Ameri- 
 can. Historical value of 
 their work . . 48, 49 
 
 Engravings. The cause of 
 the deterioration of pre- 
 Revolutionary ones . 41 
 Many changes in early 
 ones in 
 
 Eno, Henry C., owner of 
 a copy of the " BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE" en- 
 graving 122 
 
 Essex Institute of Salem, 
 Mass., owns REVERE' s 
 rare engraving of the 
 " Westerly View of the 
 Colledges in Cambridge 
 in New England" . .50 
 Possesses two copies of 
 the "BOSTON MASSA- 
 CRE" engraving . .121 
 
 Fac-similes, Rarity of, .116 
 Flagg, Josiah, joint pub- 
 lisher with REVERE of 
 a Collection of Psalm 
 Tunes in 1765 . . 14 
 
 '5' 
 
INDEX 
 
 French, Frederick W. 
 Estate of, the owner of 
 two copies of the BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE engrav- 
 ing 121 
 
 Goss, E. H., author of 
 the most complete life 
 of PAUL REVERE 50, 65 
 
 Gray, Samuel, killed in 
 the King Street MASSA- 
 CRE 96 
 
 Green Dragon Tavern, 
 The 24 
 
 Green, John Richard. His 
 " History of the English 
 People" quoted . .35 
 
 Greenleaf, Joseph, one of 
 the publishers of the 
 Royal American Maga- 
 zine 67 
 
 Hall, David, printer, 
 Franklin's old business 
 associate 19 
 
 Halsey, R. T. H. His 
 copy of Johnston's 
 " Plan of Boston " .47 
 Owner of a copy of the 
 " BOSTON MASSACRE " 
 engraving . . . . 122 
 
 "Harmonies for Singing 
 Schools," engraved by 
 REVERE 14 
 
 Hancock, "King" . .26 
 
 Havemeyer, William F. 
 His copy of Johnston's 
 engraving of Quebec . 48 
 
 Hillsborough, Earl of, RE- 
 VERE' s dedication of his 
 "View of Boston," to 
 the ... 38, 39, 40 
 
 Holden, E. B. ... 54 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Holden, E. B. His copy 
 of " The New England 
 Psalm Singer or Ameri- 
 can Chorister " . .63 
 Owner of a copy of the 
 " BOSTON MASSACRE" 
 engraving . . . .122 
 
 Hollingsworth, Z. T., his 
 copy of REVERE' s 
 " Westerly View of the 
 Colledges in Cam- 
 bridge in New Eng- 
 land" 50 
 
 His copies of the " BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE " en- 
 graving . . . . 121 
 
 Independence, Fort, for- 
 merly Castle William . 98 
 
 Johnston, Thomas, en- 
 graver. His " Plan of 
 Boston" .... 46 
 His engraving of Que- 
 bec .... 47, 48 
 
 Kalbfleisch, Charles H. . 56 
 
 Kidder, Frederic. His 
 "History of the BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE." 117, 118 
 
 King Philip's War, "The 
 Entertaining His- 
 tory of," by Thomas 
 Church, REVERE' s effi- 
 gies in 52 
 
 King Street MASSACRE, 
 Result of the . . .91 
 Description of the 95 et seq. 
 
 Larkin, Deacon John, 
 supplied REVERE with 
 the horse for his famous 
 ride 27 
 
 152 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lenox Library, The copy 
 of REVERE'S "View of 
 Boston" in . . 40, 41 
 Copy of the " BOSTON 
 MASSACRE" in . .114 
 
 London Magazine, Carica- 
 tures in 35 
 
 Longfellow, H. W. His 
 poem of "Paul 
 Revere' s Ride ' ' quoted 
 
 24, 28, 29 
 
 Liberty Trees, The 36, 37 
 
 Massachusetts Calendar, 
 Copy of the " BOSTON 
 MASSACRE" engraving 
 in the 112 
 
 Massachusetts Magazine, 
 Engraving of Castle 
 William in .... 101 
 
 Massachusetts Historical 
 Society. Its copy of the 
 " BOSTON MASSACRE " 
 engraving . . . 121 
 
 Massachusetts State 
 Treasurer's Note, The 
 
 19, 20 
 
 Mayhew, The Rev'd. 
 Jonathan, D.D., Pastor 
 of the West Church in 
 Boston, REVERE'S re- 
 puted portrait of . .13 
 
 " Mercury of the Revolu- 
 tion, The" ... 6 
 
 Mohawks , The . . .23 
 
 Moore, Frank. " Songs 
 and Ballads of the 
 American Revolu- 
 tion" . . . 91, 92 
 
 Munn, Charles A. His 
 copy of the " BOSTON 
 MASSACRE" engraving 115 
 
 M unsell, Joel, Publisher 117 
 
 PAGE 
 
 "New England Psalm 
 Singer or American 
 Chorister, The" 60 et seq. 
 
 Newman, Robert, Sex- 
 ton of the North 
 Church 26 
 
 New York Historical So- 
 ciety. Its collection of 
 Dr. Mayhew' s sermons 13 
 Possesses a copy of a 
 rare edition of Cook's 
 "Voyages" ... 54 
 Its copy of the famous 
 " BOSTON MASSACRE " 
 engraving . . 84 et seq. 
 
 North American Alma- 
 nack, The, A copy of 
 "REVERE'S VIEW OF 
 BOSTON" in ... 42 
 
 North Battery, The >cop- 
 per plates of . . 65, 66 
 
 North Church, The, from 
 the steeple of which the 
 lanterns were hung noti- 
 fying Revere of the 
 movements of the British 25 
 
 Odd Volumes, The Club of 57 
 Olin, Wm. M., Sect, of 
 Commonwealth, Mas- 
 sachusetts . . . .51 
 Oration delivered on the 
 anniversary of the BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE 103, 104 
 
 Paine, Thomas. His poem 
 of the " Liberty Tree " 37 
 
 Pennsylvania Magazine, 
 Paine' s poem of the 
 * ' Liberty Tree "in . 37 
 
 Preston, Captain, in com- 
 mand at the King Street 
 MASSACRE .... 96 
 
 '53 
 
INDEX 
 
 " Printing in America, 
 History of," by Isaiah 
 Thomas .... 68 
 
 Pulling, John, said to have 
 hung out the "signals 
 for the guidance of 
 Major PAUL REVERE " 26 
 
 Quebec, Johnston's en- 
 graving of . . 47, 48 
 
 Quincy, Eliza Susan. Her 
 copy of the " BOSTON 
 MASSACRE" presented 
 to the Bostonian So- 
 ciety 120 
 
 Remick, Christian, Artist, 40 
 An account of 140 et seq. 
 
 "Rescinders, The," en- 
 graved by REVERE . 37 
 
 REVERE, Col. PAUL. 
 His varied occupa- 
 tions 5, 6 
 
 A man of action . . 6 
 "The Mercury of the 
 Revolution" ... 6 
 His diversified business 
 
 interests 69 
 
 His unselfish devotion 
 to his country ... 7 
 A believer in the value 
 of advertising ... 9 
 An account of his birth 
 and death . . . .10 
 His early work as an en- 
 graver 10 
 
 His trade-mark . . .10 
 His alleged engraved 
 portrait of the Rev'd 
 Jonathan M a y h e w, 
 
 D.D 13 
 
 First heard of as an en- 
 graver 13 
 
 PAGE 
 
 REVERE, Col. PAUL. 
 His music score in a 
 " Collection of Psalm 
 Tunes" .... 14 
 
 Some of his early work 
 
 14, 19 
 
 Engraved the plates and 
 printed notes for the 
 State of Massachusetts 
 and Bills of Credit au- 
 thorized by the Conti- 
 nental Congress . .19 
 His engraving of the 
 border and headline of 
 the Massachusetts State 
 Treasurer's Note 19, 20 
 His marriage . . .20 
 A member of the "Bos- 
 ton Tea Party" . .21 
 His early military ex- 
 periences . . . 20, 23 
 His famous midnight 
 ride .... 24 et seq. 
 
 His shop in old Corn- 
 hill, Boston . . .30 
 The silverware made by 
 him .... 31, 32 
 
 His copies of carica- 
 tures in the London 
 Magazine . . . .35 
 
 His allegorical engrav- 
 ing regarding the Stamp 
 Act . . . . . .35 
 
 His engraving of " A 
 View of the Obelisk 
 erected under Liberty 
 Tree, in Boston, on the 
 Rejoicings for the Re- 
 peal of the Stamp Act " 36 
 His caricature of " The 
 Rescinders" . . .37 
 His "A View of Bos- 
 
 . . . 37 et seq. 
 
 154 
 
INDEX 
 
 PACK 
 
 REVERE, Col. PAUL. 
 Use of color on his 
 
 prints 41 
 
 The original of his 
 "VIEW OF BOSTON" 
 
 41, 42 
 Modern impressions of 
 
 it 42 
 
 Copies of his " View 
 of Boston" are very 
 
 rare 49 
 
 The "Westerly View 
 of the Colledges in Cam- 
 bridge in New Eng- 
 land ' ' the rarest of his 
 engravings . . 49, 51 
 His "BOSTON MASSA- 
 CRE" print ... 52 
 The effigies in "The 
 Entertaining History of 
 King Philip's War" 52 
 His illustrations f o r 
 Captain Cook's Voy- 
 ages .... 52, 53 
 Collation of his engrav- 
 ings in Cook's "Voy- 
 ages" ... 54, 55 
 H i s contribution t o 
 " The Nenv England 
 Psalm Singer or Amer- 
 ican Chorister" 60 et seq. 
 Goss's Life of . . .65 
 Music scores and front- 
 ispieces engraved by .65 
 A list of his, engravings 
 in the Royal American 
 Magazine . . 70 et seq. 
 His engraved book- 
 plates ... 77, 78 
 The "BOSTON MASSA- 
 CRE" the most noted 
 of his engravings 
 
 78, 8 1 et seq. 
 
 PAGI 
 
 REVERE, Col. PAUL. 
 The impression of the 
 " BOSTON MASSACRE" 
 plate in the possession 
 of the New York His- 
 torical Society 84 et seq. 
 Apparently a very rapid 
 
 worker 86 
 
 The present owners of 
 original impressions of 
 the " BOSTON MASSA- 
 CRE" plate .... 87 
 Recent impressions 
 made from the " BOS- 
 TON MASSACRE" plate 
 
 87, 88 
 
 His plates often made 
 to serve a double pur- 
 pose 89 
 
 His plan of King Street, 
 scene of the BOSTON 
 MASSACRE, used at the 
 trial of Captain Preston, 
 now in the Boston Pub- 
 lic Library .... 98 
 Repairs the damage 
 done to the Castle Wil- 
 liam cannon by the 
 
 British 102 
 
 The first copy of his 
 "BOSTON MASSACRE" 
 engraving . . 104, 107 
 Other reprints 107 et seq. 
 His "BOSTON MASSA- 
 CRE" not considered 
 an especially rare print 122 
 As to the original de- 
 sign of his engrav- 
 ings 123 
 
 His contributions to the 
 Royal American Maga- 
 zine and Cook's " Voy- 
 ages" . ... 123 
 
 '55 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 REVERE, Col. PAUL. 
 Letter describing his 
 famous ride and other 
 affairs of the time 127-139 
 
 Rice, John A., his col- 
 lection of the " BOSTON 
 MASSACRE Orations " .103 
 
 Rivington, James, Printer. 
 His edition of Cook's 
 "Voyages" 52, 54, 55 
 
 Romans, Captain Bernard, 
 his engraving of the 
 map in Cook's Voyages 53 
 His " Concise Natural 
 History of East and 
 West Florida" . 55, 56 
 Market value of the book 5 6 
 His engraving of " The 
 Late Battle at Charles- 
 town" ... 56, 57 
 A biographical sketch 
 of him .... 5860 
 
 Romer, Colonel, Builder 
 of Castle William . .98 
 
 Royal American Maga- 
 zine 35 
 
 REVERE' s Engraving of 
 " A View of the Town 
 of Boston" for . . 42 
 Its great rarity . . .67 
 Collation of the Illus- 
 trations in . . 68 et seq. 
 The Address to Sub- 
 scribers . . . 74, 75 
 REVERE' s contributions 
 to monthly copies of . 123 
 Extract from, explaining 
 the Indian Gazette 
 pkte .... 145-146 
 
 Ruttenber, E. M. His 
 " Obstructions to the 
 Navigation of Hudson's 
 River" 58 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Sellers, William, printer 19 
 
 "Short Narrative of, 
 The Horrid Massacre 
 in Boston, Perpetrated 
 in the Evening of the 
 Fifth Day of March, 
 1 7 7 o, by Soldiers of the 
 XXIX Regiment" 
 
 104 et seq. 
 
 Smith, Sidney L., an au- 
 thority upon the work 
 of PAUL REVERE . .13 
 
 " Songs and Balkds of the 
 American Revolution,' ' 
 by Frank Moore 91, 92 
 
 Stamp Act, Disturbance 
 caused by . . . .35 
 
 "Tales of a Wayside 
 Inn," Longfellow's 
 story of " Paul Revere' s 
 Ride" in .... 27 
 
 Thomas, Isaiah, one of 
 the publishers of the 
 Royal American Maga- 
 zine .... 67, 68 
 His " History of Print- 
 ing in America " 68, 69 
 His edition of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Calendar .112 
 
 Turner, J. His engraving of 
 the American Magazine 
 and Historical Chronicle 4 5 
 
 Warren, Dr. Joseph, the 
 patriot ... . . .25 
 
 Asked REVERE to ride 
 to Lexington . . .25 
 
 "Westerly View of the 
 Colledges in Cambridge 
 in New England ' ' 
 REVERE' s rarest en- 
 graving 49 
 
 ,56 
 
INDEX 
 
 PACK 
 
 Whiting, Stephen . . 48 
 Winsor, Justin' s," Narra- 
 tive and Critical History 
 of America," Copy 
 of REVERE' s "View of 
 Boston" in ... 42 
 
 Cited 114 
 
 Winsor, O., "His Book. 
 Bout, June i8th, 1776" 63 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Woodward, Charles E. 
 His copy of Cook's 
 "Voyages" . . 56 
 
 Woodbury, John . . .51 
 Woodbury, John P. . .117 
 
 Yale University. Its copy 
 of the Royal American 
 
 Magazine . . . .68 
 
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