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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Full Text of the Poem
As a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and as part of my genealogy research it has been such fun to find where my ancestors were at any given point in time and how they contributed to events.
Right now, I know one of my ancestors participated in the Lexington Alarm that marked the start of the American Revolution. John Arnold (DAR Ancestor A003268) was part of the Lexington Alarm from Mansfield, CT. John was 50 years old at the time the war broke out and it doesn’t appear that he served in battle, but he was part of the process right at the start. John is an ancestor through my Great Grandmother Gladys Hagerdon Anderson and her mother Lena Livermore.
While the Longfellow poem is certainly entertaining, it isn’t completely factually correct and some of the details can be found at this website
Happy America 250!
Cory and Nicole Family History 