William Dawes
American
The Midnight Ride of William Dawes
American Patriot, William Dawes, is notable as the other rider of The Midnight Ride in 1775. - AsNotedIn
American Patriot, William Dawes, is notable as the other rider of The Midnight Ride in 1775. - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1745/04/06 | William Dawes is born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was baptized at the Old South Meetinghouse. | Born | Old South Meetinghouse | Boston | |||
1775/04/18 | William Dawes leaves Boston via Boston Neck to warn John Hancock and Samual Adams. He began the second leg of his journey from the Church Green in Roxbury. | Messenger | John Eliot Square District, Roxbury | Boston | The Midnight Ride | ||
1775/04/18 | William Dawes passes through Dudley Square in Roxbury, turns right and climbs the hill to the Parting Stone, where he takes the right hand road to Brookline. | Messenger | Parting Ways Stone, Roxbury | Boston | The Midnight Ride | ||
1775/04/19 | William Dawes arrives at Clarke House | Messenger | Hancock-Clarke House | Lexington, MA | The Midnight Ride | ||
1799/02/25 | William Dawes died in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was believed to have been buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground, but modern research points to his resting place now being in his first wife's family plot in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain. | Died | Forest Hills Cemetery | Boston |
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