On this night 250 years ago my #ancestor finished the ride that #PaulRevere started.

Captured by Redcoats, Revere never reached #Concord.

But #SamuelPrescott did. 💙

I honor my many #Massachusetts #RevolutionaryWar ancestors this weekend.

And I warn all of you

"The Regulars are HERE!"

#noKings

Detail from a painting by Cortney Skinner that will appear in his upcoming book "Paul Revere's Ride: An Illustrated History" published by the Paul Revere Memorial Association in the spring of 2025. #PaulRevere #WilliamDawes #SamuelPrescott #MidnightRide250

Interactive Map: The Midnight Rides of April 18 & 19, 1775 www.paulreverehouse.org/interactive-... #PaulRevere #WilliamDawes #SamuelPrescott #MidnightRides

“For the Information of the Friends of the unhappy Prisoners” On 27 Nov 1777, the Independent Chronicle newspaper of Boston reported on a ship sailing under a flag of truce: Last Sunday returned here ...

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J. L. Bell (@boston1775.bsky.social) History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England.

Scrounging for Clues about Dr. Samuel Prescott boston1775.blogspot.com/2023/04/scro... via boston1775.bsky.social
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Why Samuel Prescott and Lydia Mulliken Never Married A couple of days ago , I quoted an 1824 Concord newspaper saying that on 18 Apr 1775 Dr. Samuel Prescott had been out on “a visit to the l...

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“Mr. Mulliken, to whose daughter he was paying his addresses” Around the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord , more details about Dr. Samuel Prescott came into print. As I qu...

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“Returning from Lexington before day light” When Paul Revere described his ride with William Dawes to the Rev. Jeremy Belknap in 1798, he wrote: “We were overtaken by a young Docter...

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Getting to Know Dr. Samuel Prescott One of the questions after my online talk for the Army Heritage Center Foundation last week led me to discussing Dr. Samuel Prescott and ho...

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Detail from a painting by Cortney Skinner that will appear in his upcoming book "Paul Revere's Ride: An Illustrated History" published by the Paul Revere Memorial Association in the spring of 2025. #PaulRevere #WilliamDawes #SamuelPrescott #MidnightRide250