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As in the term of Most Wor. Bro. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMCutler Cutler], Grand Master Revere was responsible for a number of edicts and decisions regarding the functioning of Grand Lodge. Considerable correspondence with other Grand Lodges near and far took place, as well as other exchanges of letters, most notably with Brother (and former President) George Washington. He was also active in the public sphere, notably in the laying of corner stones for public buildings, including the Massachusetts State House in 1795. (When Most Wor. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMLewis Winslow Lewis] was invited to perform the same ceremony in September 1855, he was surprised to find the remains of that stone and the memorabilia placed therein.) Paul Revere was a remarkable man, and a memorable Mason.
 
As in the term of Most Wor. Bro. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMCutler Cutler], Grand Master Revere was responsible for a number of edicts and decisions regarding the functioning of Grand Lodge. Considerable correspondence with other Grand Lodges near and far took place, as well as other exchanges of letters, most notably with Brother (and former President) George Washington. He was also active in the public sphere, notably in the laying of corner stones for public buildings, including the Massachusetts State House in 1795. (When Most Wor. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMLewis Winslow Lewis] was invited to perform the same ceremony in September 1855, he was surprised to find the remains of that stone and the memorabilia placed therein.) Paul Revere was a remarkable man, and a memorable Mason.
  
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Most Worshipful Brother Paul Revere was an active and zealous Mason. He was initiated in [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StAndrew St. Andrew's] Lodge, September 4, 1760, and raised January 27, 1761; was elected Senior Warden in November, 1764, and Master, November 30, 1770. In the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, in 1777, 1778, and 1779, he was Junior Grand Warden; in 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, Senior Grand Warden; and in 1784, 1790, and 1791, he was Deputy Grand Master. He was the second Grand Master after the union and served in that office from December 12, 1794 to December 27, 1797. An interesting and ably written short biography of Brother Revere may be found in Volume III of the New England, Magazine, edited by Brother Joseph T. Buckingham. An abridgment of that biography presents the following facts:
 
Most Worshipful Brother Paul Revere was an active and zealous Mason. He was initiated in [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StAndrew St. Andrew's] Lodge, September 4, 1760, and raised January 27, 1761; was elected Senior Warden in November, 1764, and Master, November 30, 1770. In the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, in 1777, 1778, and 1779, he was Junior Grand Warden; in 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, Senior Grand Warden; and in 1784, 1790, and 1791, he was Deputy Grand Master. He was the second Grand Master after the union and served in that office from December 12, 1794 to December 27, 1797. An interesting and ably written short biography of Brother Revere may be found in Volume III of the New England, Magazine, edited by Brother Joseph T. Buckingham. An abridgment of that biography presents the following facts:
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church bells and brass cannon. The manufacture of copper sheathing also engaged his attention and he was successful in this undertaking. Colonel Revere was the first President of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, instituted in 1795. At the time of his death he was connected with many other philanthropic associations, in all of which he was a munificent and useful member.
 
church bells and brass cannon. The manufacture of copper sheathing also engaged his attention and he was successful in this undertaking. Colonel Revere was the first President of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, instituted in 1795. At the time of his death he was connected with many other philanthropic associations, in all of which he was a munificent and useful member.
  
The life of Col Paul Revere by E.H. Goss (1891).<br>
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The life of Col. Paul Revere by E.H. Goss (1891).<br>
 
Centennial Memorial of the [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StAndrew Lodge of St. Andrew] (1870).<br>
 
Centennial Memorial of the [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StAndrew Lodge of St. Andrew] (1870).<br>
 
Heard's History of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Columbian Columbian] Lodge, Pages 351-353 'i'':
 
Heard's History of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Columbian Columbian] Lodge, Pages 351-353 'i'':
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Col. PAUL REVERE was descended from the French Huguenots, and was born in Boston, on the 1st of January, 1735. He was brought up to the business of a goldsmith, and became a very expert workman. In 1756, soon alter he became of age, he joined an expedition that was organized against Crown Point, then in possession of the French, receiving the appointment of lieutenant of artillery, and was stationed at Fort Edward, on Lake George, during the greater part of that year. After returning to Boston he married and settled in business as a goldsmith. He also carried on engraving and some other mechanical arts, during a long and active life. He was a bold and fearless advocate for American Independence, and one of the persons who planned and executed the most daring feat of the times, the destruction of the tea in Boston harbor. He was often entrusted with confidential messages from the Provincial to the Continental Congress, and acted an important part in the events which occurred about the 19th of April, 1775. A regiment having been raised in Boston and the vicinity, for the defence of the State, Revere was appointed a Major and afterwards Lieutenant Colonel, and remained in the service until the close o f the war. In 1768 he took an active part in favor of the Constitution of the United States, and, with other leading macbanics, exerted his influence to promote its adoption. Col. Revere died in Boston, in May, 1818, aged eighty four years. At the time of his decease, (to adopt the language of another,) he was connected with many of the benevolent and useful institutions which dignify and embellish the metropolis of Massachusetts, in all of which he was an active and munificent member. By an uncommonly long life of industry and economy he was able to obtain a competency in regard to property, and to educate a large family of children, many of whom are living [1S54] to enjoy the contemplation of the character of an upright, patriotic, and virtuous father.
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Brother Revere's name appears on the records of our Chapter, for the first time, January 9th, 1770. There is no doubt he was a member at this early period, for he was Junior Warden of the "Royal Arch Lodge," in the year 1770. Probably this ceremony was practised in the admission of members, eighty years ago, than at the present time; and no register of names extending back so far as the above date, can now be found. He was Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in 17S2, and Grand Master in 1795, 1796, and 1797.
  
 
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PAUL REVERE 1734-1818

TERM

1795 1796 1797

BIOGRAPHY

We have few Grand Masters whose renown is great beyond the bounds of the Craft, but Paul Revere is a man whose name is known to every schoolchild. We have Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to thank for that -

Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year.

Revere's part in that famous event has been exaggerated, but he was a hero of the Revolution and a prominent public figure in Massachusetts before, during and after that momentous period. Born in 1734 in Boston to an emigrant Huguenot father and a native Bostonian, he was the second of twelve children, and was apprenticed as a silversmith, in which profession he became well-known. He was initiated in St. Andrew's Lodge in September 1760 at age 25, at which time he was already married and the primary support of his family; as a member of St. Andrew's and later Rising States Lodge, he was an active Blue Lodge Freemason, serving nine terms as Master.

The capstone of his Masonic career was his election as Grand Master in December 1794. His time in office was marked by a rapid expansion of the number of chartered lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge. The following lodges received charters while he was Grand Master: Republican (Greenfield), Evening Star (Lenox), Middlesex (Framingham), Cincinnatus (New Marlborough, later Great Barrington), King Hiram's (Truro, later Provincetown), Kennebec (Hallowell, Maine), Fayette (Charlton), Washington (Roxbury), Columbian (Boston), Union (Dorchester), Harmony (Northfield), Thomas (Monson), St. Paul's (Groton), Jerusalem (South Hadley), Adams (Wellfleet), Tuscan (Columbia, Maine), Bristol (Norton), Fellowship (Bridgewater), Corinthian (Concord), Meridian Sun (Brookfield), Olive Branch (Oxford), Montgomery (Franklin), and Meridian (Watertown). Of these twenty-three lodges, nearly all are still in existence (and are justifiably proud of their "Revere Charters"). He also granted new charters to St. Peter's Lodge, Newburyport; Portland Lodge in Portland, Maine; and endorsed the charters of American Union Lodge (then meeting in Marietta in Ohio Territory), Philanthropic Lodge, Marblehead, and Union Lodge in Nantucket. He was also willing to dispense Masonic justice, and under his authority and the vote of the Grand Lodge, Harmonic Lodge of Boston had its charter vacated.

As in the term of Most Wor. Bro. Cutler, Grand Master Revere was responsible for a number of edicts and decisions regarding the functioning of Grand Lodge. Considerable correspondence with other Grand Lodges near and far took place, as well as other exchanges of letters, most notably with Brother (and former President) George Washington. He was also active in the public sphere, notably in the laying of corner stones for public buildings, including the Massachusetts State House in 1795. (When Most Wor. Winslow Lewis was invited to perform the same ceremony in September 1855, he was surprised to find the remains of that stone and the memorabilia placed therein.) Paul Revere was a remarkable man, and a memorable Mason.

BIOGRAPHY FROM 1916 PROCEEDINGS

Most Worshipful Brother Paul Revere was an active and zealous Mason. He was initiated in St. Andrew's Lodge, September 4, 1760, and raised January 27, 1761; was elected Senior Warden in November, 1764, and Master, November 30, 1770. In the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, in 1777, 1778, and 1779, he was Junior Grand Warden; in 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, Senior Grand Warden; and in 1784, 1790, and 1791, he was Deputy Grand Master. He was the second Grand Master after the union and served in that office from December 12, 1794 to December 27, 1797. An interesting and ably written short biography of Brother Revere may be found in Volume III of the New England, Magazine, edited by Brother Joseph T. Buckingham. An abridgment of that biography presents the following facts:

"Paul Revere, or Rivoire, as his ancestors wrote the name, was born in Boston, in December, 1734, O. S. (January 1, 1735), and died there in May, 1818, aged 84. His grandfather emigrated from St. Foy, in France, to the Island of Guernsey; and his father, at the age of thirteen, was sent by his friends from that island to Boston, to learn the trade of a goldsmith, where he afterwards married, and had several children, of whom Paul was the eldest. Young Revere was brought up by his father to the business of a goldsmith and made himself very serviceable in the use of a graver. Having a natural taste for drawing he made it his peculiar business to design and execute all engravings on the various kinds of silver plate then manufactured. In 1756, he received the appointment of Lieutenant of Artillery and was stationed at Fort Edward, on Lake George, the greater part of that year. After his return to Boston he married and commenced business as a goldsmith which, with engraving and other mechanical and manufacturing arts, were objects of industry from time to time during a long and. active life. He was one of a club of young men, chiefly mechanics, who associated for the purpose of watching the movements of the British troops in Boston and acted an important part in the events which occurred. about the 19th of April, 1775. He says, in a letter he wrote to the Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, We held our meetings at the Green Dragon tavern. We were so careful that our meetings should be kept secret; that every time we met, every person swore upon the Bible, that they would not discover any of our transactions, but to Messrs. Hancock, Adams, Doctors Warren, Church, and one or two more."

After the British evacuatecl Boston a regiment of artillery was raised for the defense of the State. In this regiment he was appointed a Major, and afterwards a Lieutenant Colonel, and remained in the service until the peace. When the British left Boston they broke the trunnions of the cannon at Castle William (Fort Independence) and Washington called on Revere to render them useful - in which he succeeded by means of a newly contrived carriage. After the peace he resumed his business as a goldsmith. Subsequently he erected an air-furnace in which he cast church bells and brass cannon. The manufacture of copper sheathing also engaged his attention and he was successful in this undertaking. Colonel Revere was the first President of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, instituted in 1795. At the time of his death he was connected with many other philanthropic associations, in all of which he was a munificent and useful member.

The life of Col. Paul Revere by E.H. Goss (1891).
Centennial Memorial of the Lodge of St. Andrew (1870).
Heard's History of Columbian Lodge, Pages 351-353 'i: 15 M.F.M. 169.
1909 Mass. 25.

BIOGRAPHY FROM MOORE'S FREEMASON'S MONTHLY, 1859

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XVIII, No. 12, October 1859, History of St. Andrew's Chapter; Page 363:

Col. PAUL REVERE was descended from the French Huguenots, and was born in Boston, on the 1st of January, 1735. He was brought up to the business of a goldsmith, and became a very expert workman. In 1756, soon alter he became of age, he joined an expedition that was organized against Crown Point, then in possession of the French, receiving the appointment of lieutenant of artillery, and was stationed at Fort Edward, on Lake George, during the greater part of that year. After returning to Boston he married and settled in business as a goldsmith. He also carried on engraving and some other mechanical arts, during a long and active life. He was a bold and fearless advocate for American Independence, and one of the persons who planned and executed the most daring feat of the times, the destruction of the tea in Boston harbor. He was often entrusted with confidential messages from the Provincial to the Continental Congress, and acted an important part in the events which occurred about the 19th of April, 1775. A regiment having been raised in Boston and the vicinity, for the defence of the State, Revere was appointed a Major and afterwards Lieutenant Colonel, and remained in the service until the close o f the war. In 1768 he took an active part in favor of the Constitution of the United States, and, with other leading macbanics, exerted his influence to promote its adoption. Col. Revere died in Boston, in May, 1818, aged eighty four years. At the time of his decease, (to adopt the language of another,) he was connected with many of the benevolent and useful institutions which dignify and embellish the metropolis of Massachusetts, in all of which he was an active and munificent member. By an uncommonly long life of industry and economy he was able to obtain a competency in regard to property, and to educate a large family of children, many of whom are living [1S54] to enjoy the contemplation of the character of an upright, patriotic, and virtuous father.

Brother Revere's name appears on the records of our Chapter, for the first time, January 9th, 1770. There is no doubt he was a member at this early period, for he was Junior Warden of the "Royal Arch Lodge," in the year 1770. Probably this ceremony was practised in the admission of members, eighty years ago, than at the present time; and no register of names extending back so far as the above date, can now be found. He was Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in 17S2, and Grand Master in 1795, 1796, and 1797.

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