by prhstaff | Sep 19, 2020 | Blog
Wait, Did You Say 16 Kids? By: Rachel Mead Visitors to the Paul Revere House are often amazed to learn that Paul Revere had 16 children. No, that is not a typo. He married his first wife, Sarah Orne, on August 17, 1757 when he was 22 and she was 21. They started...
by prhstaff | Sep 5, 2020 | Blog
“Not in His Right Mind”: Paul Revere and Mental Illness in the Early Republic By: Nina Rodwin ​In May 1788, Paul Revere’s 22-year-old daughter Frances married silversmith Thomas Eayres. Revere encouraged the couple to start their lives in Worcester, sensing that...
by prhstaff | Aug 22, 2020 | Blog
Onesimus Mather and the Origins of Inoculation in Boston By: Rowan Wheeler In 1721, Boston was in the middle of a mass exodus. That summer, hundreds of Bostonians fled to smaller villages and towns to escape the threat of smallpox. That year’s pandemic would wipe out...
by prhstaff | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
Sinking Your Teeth into History: Sugar, Dentistry, and Paul Revere By: Ruaidhri Crofton Among the items in the Paul Revere Memorial Association’s collection is a small and somewhat morbid-looking partial denture carved from ivory. This early dental prosthetic device...
by prhstaff | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Preventing the Virus “which walketh in darkness”: Rainsford Island, Paul Revere and the Board of Health As the coronavirus quarantine continues in Boston and around the world, it is natural to feel uncertainty and anxiety. During this time, it makes sense to turn to...
