About Item:

This is the third and final account that Paul Revere wrote describing his actions on April 18th, 1775. He wrote this 23 years after the events in 1798 for Jeremy Belknap, the founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Belknap wanted Revere’s own words to be recorded so that people like us could read them hundreds of years later!

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Glossary:

• Mechanick—a social and economic class in colonial society made up of craftsmen, manufacturers and lesser merchants
• Militia—local volunteer troops organized to keep the peace and defend against outside attack
• Minutemen—special groups within the militia trained to be available at a moment’s notice
• Regulars—Soldiers in the British army. British soldiers were sometimes referred to by patriot agitators as “redcoats” or “lobsterbacks.”

Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society