Revere House Radio

This week, we're talking privies, drains, and sewers! We're discussing various digs done our site in recent years, and what archeology can teach us about the past, and help us preserve it for the future.
Massachusett website

Interactive map to learn more about the first nations in your area

Nina Rodwin's blog post about Paul Revere and the board of health

Joe Bagley showcasing some finds from the dig done at the Pierce-Hichborn House

Website for the Boston Archeology Department

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This week, we're taking listener and visitor questions all about Paul Revere's Midnight Ride in 1775. We talk horse names, mystery trunks, and family drama in this episode. Did we miss something you're curious about? Shoot us an email at [email protected] and maybe we'll answer it on a future episode!
Some links to things mentioned in the show:
What was Paul Revere Jr. the oldest boy in the family, doing during the Siege of Boston? Listen to this episode from October 2020 to find out more.
What did Boston look like in 1775? Check it out!

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How do we know what Paul and Rachel looked like, and how has the Midnight Ride been depicted over the years? Tune in to find out!
Copley's Paul Revere: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/32401
Dunkerley's Rachel Revere: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/32537
Saint-Mémin's Paul Revere: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/252379
Stuart's Paul Revere: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/32402
Stuart's Rachel Revere: https://www.masshist.org/database/3448?ft=Revolutionary-Era%20Art%20and%20Artifacts&from=/features/revolutionary-era/people&noalt=1&pid=38
Wyeth's Paul Revere: http://collections.brandywine.org/objects/11327/paul-revere;jsessionid=122A13BFC2579556F33FE085400F72FA?ctx=13dd7013-5742-445b-9419-cd3300d28041&idx=7
Wood's Paul Revere: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488577
An Example of Ripley's Set: https://www.paulreverehouse.org/reveres-own-words/
The Dallin Museum: https://dallin.org/about/

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In this episode we explore what pregnancy and birth may have looked like for Paul's two wives, Sarah Orne and Rachel Walker. While we don't sources directly from them describing their experiences, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's book A Midwife's Tale is an immensely helpful resource, along with other articles.
For more information about the sixteen children, see our Revere Express post written by Rachel Mead

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For the last episode of Season Four, recent Paul Revere House Research Fellow Ryan Bachman discusses his research into Black residents in the North End, in the decade that legal slavery ended in Massachusetts and the decades that followed. He highlights some of his favorite stories and discusses the challenges and opportunities of tracing people’s lives through government documents such as census data and tax records. In Our Favorite Questions, interpreters Derek and Colton talk about the power of physical places and objects in connecting with history. We’ll be back with more Revere House Radio next spring!

• The map, presented on our blog
• Short biography of Salem Poor from American Battlefield Trust
• Book: Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860 by George Levesque
• Book: Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
• Article: The Forgotten Legacy of Boston’s Historic Black Graveyard by Dart Adams
• Book: Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860 by Joanne Pope Melish
• Book: Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815

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