The extraordinary Paul Revere, not only an adventurer, artist, dentist and a bell manufacturer but also when he wasn't doing all this, trying to save the fledgling Continental Congress, from an almost certain destruction, he was also a silversmith of some reputation.
A native of Boston, born 21 December 1734 or 1 January 1735 the third of twelve children, to a French father and local mother of a longstanding Boston family. Paul left school at thirteen years of age and became apprenticed to his father, as a silversmith. Through this trade he was able to make a number of useful contacts, which would stand him in good stead for the future years ahead. His father died in 1754 and 1756 Paul took a short term commission in the provincial army and was posted to Fort William Henry, for the summer, but soon returned to Boston to take charge of the families Silver Shop, in his own name. In 1757 he married Sarah Orne and their first child was born eight months later.
Paul Revere, was something of a successful business man and his Silversmith's was said to be of some size and style and very busy, he was selling his own work and imported foreign silver items as well. Paul Revere's work is said to be categorized into two more or less distinct periods, these being before and after the Revolutionary War, the pre-war years, being his most creative period.
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