The true story of Paul Revere, his midnight ride, his arrest and court-martial, his useful public services . use the mostgenerally reproduced, is his view of TheBLOODY MASSACRE perpetrated inKing-Street, BOSTON, on March 5^^1770, by a party of the 29^^^ REG^ Butthe painful fact must be recorded thatRevere is under grave suspicion of havingin this instance appropriated the work ofanother. The basis of this charge is thefollowing letter ^ written to Revere by Silver Punch Bowl, etc., reprinted from the Boston Heraldof January 20, 1895. ^ Some Pelham-Copley Letters/ by Paul LeicesterFord in The A
The true story of Paul Revere, his midnight ride, his arrest and court-martial, his useful public services . use the mostgenerally reproduced, is his view of TheBLOODY MASSACRE perpetrated inKing-Street, BOSTON, on March 5^^1770, by a party of the 29^^^ REG^ Butthe painful fact must be recorded thatRevere is under grave suspicion of havingin this instance appropriated the work ofanother. The basis of this charge is thefollowing letter ^ written to Revere by Silver Punch Bowl, etc., reprinted from the Boston Heraldof January 20, 1895. ^ Some Pelham-Copley Letters/ by Paul LeicesterFord in The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1893. Pelham andJohn S. Copley were among the Americans sojourningin London whose actions during this period were beingwatched by the British authorities. To what extent,says Mr. Ford, ^^ suspicion was attached to them, it isnow impossible to say, but it certainly went so far asto lead these two men to turn over their private papersto the government. Among these papers was thisletter which Mr. Ford found in the Public RecordOffice, London, in a bundle labelled America and the[22]. The Patriotic Engraver Henry Pelham, a contemporary engraverand miniaturist: Boston, March 29, 1770. SIR: When I heard that you was cutting aplate of the late Murder, I thought it im-possible as I knew you was not capable ofdoing it unless you coppied it from mineand as I thought I had intrusted it in thehands of a person who had more regard tothe dictates of Honour and Justice than West Indies, 449. Either the Revere letter, whichwas dated at Boston, was for some reason never actuallysent by its author, being carried by him to London; orthe letter found in London was a copy which Pelhamhad preserved of the original. In a paper entitled Christian Remick, an EarlyBoston Artist, read at a meeting of the Club of OddVolumes of Boston, February 24, 1904 (of which onehundred copies were published by the club), Henry questioned the genuineness of certainprints generally a
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