May 25, 2019
Paul Revere’s Bell and Cannon Foundry
We celebrate Paul Revere as the "everyman" of the American Revolution, but over the course of his long and active life (1735-1818), he pursued many different careers, evolving from a master artisan in colonial Boston to a business entrepreneur and proto-industrialist in the early national period. He was, successively, a silversmith, engraver, revolutionary propagandist, soldier, cannon founder, dentist (a manufacturer of false teeth), hardware store proprietor, coppersmith, and bell maker.
https://www.masshist.org/objects/2011july.php
