Samuel Prescott

The events that occur off of informational texts have been proven either by someone who experienced the particular event or received information from a trusted source. In The Real Story of Revere's Ride the author included the true event with facts. For example in the text it states “ After delivering his message, Revere was joined by a second rider, William Dawes, who had been sent on the errand by a different route. Deciding on their own to continue on to Concord, Massachusetts, where weapons and supplies were hidden Revere and Dawes were joined by a third rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott. Soon after, all three were arrested by a British patrol. “ This piece shows that during the event of Paul Revere there were three riders, Paul Revere, Dr. Samuel Powers, and William Dawes that had warned the people of Lexington about the British soldiers’ upcoming arrival. While in a few literature pieces Paul Revere is the only rider mentioned…

The son of a Huguenot silversmith . Paul at nineteen assumed artistic responsibility for the family’s shop. Born in January 1, 1735 he took part in the Boston tea party and was the principal rider for Boston’s committee of safety. He devised a system of lanterns for the minutemen to learn if the British would be attacking them. By all accounts, the young Revere was a serious and committed artisan. He joined a member of a widely distributed secret order and…

Revere was sent by his friend Dr. Joseph Warren to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the approaching British soldiers. Revere left Boston at approximately 10:00 pm with two others. He went first to Charlestown where he borrowed his horse from a fellow patriot, Deacon John Larkin. Revere had prearranged a message to warn the Sons of Liberty about the approaching British by hanging lanterns up at the top of the bell tower at Christ Church in Boston. He would briefly turn on one lamp to say…

British high command that Redcoat troops would march that night on Concord. Warren dispatched two couriers, silversmith Paul Revere and tanner William Dawes, to alert residents of the news. They first traveled by different routes to Lexington, a few miles east of Concord, where revolutionary leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock had temporarily holed up. Having persuaded those two to flee, a weary Revere and Dawes then set out again. On the road, they met a third rider, Samuel Prescott, who…

proclamation delivered that colonists and land speculators were restricted from any land west of the top of the river that flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest. However, the “colonial land speculators” were furious because their claims were denied and they couldn’t rent from residents already on the land that they had purchased in the Ohio Valley. Coming out of the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763 was the primary complaint for colonial settlers leading to the…

In Samuel Adams’ words, “The people receive this cruel edict with abhorrence and indignation” (“The Intolerable Acts”). And in fact, they viewed the edict with so much abhorrence and indignation, that they renamed the laws “The Intolerable Acts.” The new regulations certainly did not quell the growing notions of freedom and rebellion, and instead, “caused patriots from one end of the colonies to the other to rally in support of Boston.” (Malone et al. 30). That rallying together is one of the…

army and government are being very unfair and abusing their power. Paul Revere's had his connections with a few members of local organizations that were also well known during the years when the revolutionary war was under way. He was friendly with activists like James Otis and Joseph Warren. Therefore he was able to get a job as a "courier" for the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, in 1774. He carried news, and spread the word about what the plan…

The play The Crucible is about the power of rebellion and (later) mass hysteria. Shown in the first act is a power struggle in which Abigail is defiant and dares to talk back to her minister uncle, Reverend Parris. Abigail’s actions towards her self-centered uncle foreshadow the power she and her friends would later gain. Due to the need of a scapegoat during hard times, the people of Salem, Massachusetts were quick to believe in witchcraft. Although some of the people accused seemed highly…

they are the abandoners of the individuals with the injustice behaviors. A king was one that people turned to for help in difficult times, and protected them when they needed one. Those were qualities and characteristics that the ancient Hebrews demanded and expected from a king. However, the king that was chosen lacked not only some of these characteristics, but also failed to meet these high expectations. “We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to…

A common term used to describe a situation in which various people all suffer from similar hysterical symptoms - either from a phantom illness or an inexplicable event, is mass hysteria. In Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Crucible’ the town of Salem, Massachusetts, is thrown into mass hysteria when the the word witchcraft spreads about the town. Those who have cried witchcraft have gathered at the home of Reverend Samuel Parris to see the girl, Betty Parris, who has been affected by the ‘Devil’s dark…