The silversmith was resourceful and dabbled in a range of work, taking on apprentices and workers who created specialty flatware, silver bowls, tea sets and even casting the first bell in Boston in his foundry. He wed Sarah Orne in 1765, and they had eight children before she died nearly two decades later. Revere returned to Boston after a failed military expedition and started to build his family life and business. But he left the business briefly and enlisted in a provincial army in 1756 during the French and Indian War. At age 19, Revere inherited the business upon his father’s death. The young Revere was educated in reading and writing in school before completing his training as an apprentice to his silversmith father. Paul Revere was born in the North End neighborhood of Boston at the end of 1734 (the exact date is unknown) to a French Huguenot father who ran a silversmith shop and a mother from a local family.
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