While we do not have a cause of death for all the Reveres, several of those whose information was recorded were connected to a specific illness. For instance, Rachel Revere died in at the age of 68 of a bilious cholic. So, while infant mortality was quite high, life expectancy was not universally low.
When Sarah died, she left a very young baby, Isannah, behind. Paul had to find someone to help take care of the baby and the six other children. According to family tradition, Paul met Rachel Walker in North Square, liked her, and asked her over — and then her interest in and pity for Isannah brought her back to stay.
They were married on October 10, Unlike Sarah, Rachel lived until the age of 68, long enough to witness the birth of at least two of her grandchildren. Click the table above to learn more details about the Revere children, their spouses, and children. The Revere children experienced varied lives.
Even though they all had the same father and all likely came through the house at 19 North Square at some stage in their lives, they were born over a period of 29 years and thus grew up under differing circumstances.
Over the decades between the birth of Deborah and the birth of John, much changed for Paul Revere and his family. He lost a wife, and his children lost their mother. The family experienced the joy and growing pains of adding children, in-laws, and grandchildren, but also the heartbreak of losing five young children. The older girls were educated at home and married Revere apprentices and business associates. On the other hand, Harriet and Maria, his younger daughters, attended boarding school.
Harriet was the only Revere daughter to live to adulthood and not marry. Maria lived a life of adventure, marrying the French-born planter, merchant, and diplomat Joseph Balestier with whom she moved to Singapore.
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Do they teach the Revolutionary War in England? What event took place by the rude bridge? Previous Article What happened to Paul Revere? In part this is because he had two wives and Rachel was many years younger, allowing him to father children over a nearly 30 year stretch. He had 16 children, 11 of whom survived to adulthood. T he origin of the phrase. It was a reference to the secret signal orchestrated by Revere during his historic ride from Boston to Concord on the verge of American Revolutionary War.
Rachel Walker AKA Walkerillo is renowned for watercolour, spray paint, pen and ink artworks that draw on her awe of the natural world.
Her drippy, energetic style is both loose in form and precisely detailed — capturing the attitude and beauty of birds, sea creatures, reptiles and wild animals. On May 3, , Sarah Orne Revere died.
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