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Paul Revere made 5 trips to Phil. PA ( 5 coming and 5 returning to Boston) He departs Boston 5/14/1774 with documents regarding the Port Act, Broadsides , General Gage’s letter, and “Intolerable Acts”. Revere met post rider John Ludlow from NYC in Providence RI. Revere returns to Boston from Phil. Pa 5/28/1774. His invoice for expenses lists David Wood of Kings Bridge for a horse and lodging. The trip was listed as 234 miles and what appears to be 3 pence per mile. I wonder if there is any other details of Paul Revere’s trips over the Kings Bridge. Remember, he went along the old Kings Bridge road Bussing Ave to Barnes Ave to Gun Hill Road and across East Van Corlandt Ave. to Sedgewick and down Kingsbridge Terrace and Albany Cresent to the Bridge.
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I think you’ve probably found all of Revere’s rides through the neighborhood. I found this article with a reference to David Hackett Fischer’s book about Revere. I am not sure if you checked that book out already.
I read that Paul Revere was stationed at Ft. William Henry upstate during the French and Indian War. I am not sure if his unit ever had to pass through New York then. Could he have travelled on business trips to New York after the war?
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1. 12/17/1773 Committee of Correspondence from Sam Adams
2. 5/14/ 1774 Carried news of the Intolerable Acts to New York, Philadelphia, and Hartford
3. 9/9 or 9/11/1774 departs from Boston re Suffolk Resolves. Arrived Philadelphia 9/16/1774
4 9/29/1774 September 29 1774 Paul Revere embarked on another round trip to and from Philadelphia, carrying letters both ways
5. 11/5/1775 departs from Boston arrives in Phil 11/20/1775 re Gun Powder manufacturing
An other reference lists 10/3/1774 Revers arrives in Philadelphia, departs for Boston 10/11/1774 , while an other lists 18 trips by Revere to Philadelphia. More research is necessary.
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Yes, it was a common practice to exchange horses if you did not stay the night.
Paul Revere appears to have made the Trip to NYC in the Summer of 1774 as a personal trip, using his horse and sulky, so it was a little more comfortable.
Sarah Kemble Knight rode the Boston Post road in 1704 and in her diary of the trip noted the bumpy and rocky roads.
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