Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . for vehicles to pass oneither side. In 1771 we find it made use of as a point ofdirection to the shop opposite. At No. 50 Cornhill, or next south of Goldthwaits carpetstore, we find Paul Revere, a man wliose name occurs fre-quently in connectiou with the history of Boston. Descendedfrom the sturdy old Huguenots, whose ancient family name wasRivoire, Paid Revere began business as a goldsmith, but, ere-long, took up the art of engraving on copper, in which he wasseK-taught; a fact evident enough in his early attempts. Of his engravings of Dr. May
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . for vehicles to pass oneither side. In 1771 we find it made use of as a point ofdirection to the shop opposite. At No. 50 Cornhill, or next south of Goldthwaits carpetstore, we find Paul Revere, a man wliose name occurs fre-quently in connectiou with the history of Boston. Descendedfrom the sturdy old Huguenots, whose ancient family name wasRivoire, Paid Revere began business as a goldsmith, but, ere-long, took up the art of engraving on copper, in which he wasseK-taught; a fact evident enough in his early attempts. Of his engravings of Dr. Mayhew, and the Rescinders, hemight have said with Beau Brummel, • These are my failures. The Massacre, Cromwells Head, etc., show a somewhattruer hand. But Copperplate, with almanacksEngraved upon t, and other knacks, did not fill the measure of Reveres ingenuity. He put in oper-ation the first powder-mill in the province, visiting Philadelphia— where was the only mill in the Colonies — for this purpose. BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DUCK. 119. 120 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. The proprietor would only permit the Boston mechanic to gothrough his mill; but this was enough, and the Provincial Con-gress soon had powder. Eevere was of the Tea Party; waslieutenant-colonel of a regiment of militia raised after the evacu-ation ; and was in the ill-starred Penobscot expedition of the peace of 1783 he establislied a cannon and bell foundryat the North End, and, later, works at Canton for the manufac-ture of malleable copper bolts, spikes, etc. A company at thelatter place stiU bears liis name. Paul Eevere was also the firstPresident of the Mechanic Charitable Association. When the engraver was at work upon the caricature of theseventeen members of the Legislature who voted, in 1768, torescind the resolution to issue a circidar to the Colonies callinga convention to oppose taxation without representation, entitled A warm place, Hell, Dr. Church, who afterwards betrayedthe patriot c
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