User talk:Townhill

Revere Ride Corrections
The following error corrections are offered for the section titled, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere":

Para. 2 - "At about 10 [not 11] pm, Revere was sent by Dr. Warren..." Ref. Paul Revere's Three Accounts of his Famous Ride Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1976.

Para. 3 - "Revere rode a horse loaned to him by John Larkin, Charlestown merchant-mariner and Whig patriot who was later appointed Deacon of First Church of Charlestown (Congregational) in 1787." [Date of appointment: June 8, 1787. Larkin never had any association with Old North Church.] Ref:  William I. Budington,  The History of the First Church, Charlestown, Boston: Charles Tappan, 1845.

Para. 4 - "They were joined by Samuel Prescott, a young Concord doctor who happened to be returning from courting his fiancee in Lexington at about 1 a.m." Ref. David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 129.

Last para. - Using a 1775 map of Boston and vicinity and modern maps reveals a more accurate description: "The full ride used Main Street in Charlestown, Mystic Avenue in Somerville, High Street in Medford, Medford Street in Arlington to Arlington center, and Massachusetts Avenue the rest of the way to Lexington..."

--71.206.177.101 (talk) 06:53, 23 November 2008 (UTC)