Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-04-15
shephedsown Jefferson County, April 1909

suggestion for a General Congress, to
New York and Colonies to the South.
New York had received intelligence of the
action of Parliament before the arrival OF
Paul Revere, and had dispatched TO Bos-
ton message of sympathy and encour-
agement, and the bearer Of it, John Lud-
low, met Revere near Providence, Rhode
Island, as each travelled his opposite way
on the same account. The General Con-
gress favored by Philadelphia was, at the
suggestion of the General Court Of Mas
sachusetts, held in that city the following
September, and the acts of injustice suf-
fered by the ColoniSts were recited in a
Declaration OF Colonial Rights. lmpor-
tant memorials and resolutions were
passed and the American Association was
formed-the first confederacy of the
provinces and the real beginning OF the
Union. Far-seeing patriots realized the
meaning Of these measures, and the Mas
sachusetts House of Representatives re-
organized under the name OF the Provin-
cial Congress, assumed the reins OF indie
pendent government and voted to enroll
twelve thousand Minute Men. Revere
was called upon once more to ride to
Philadelphia, and carried the "Suffolk
Resolves" an incipient Declaration OF
independence to the Continental Congress.
In the capacity of Grand Master of the
Masonic Grand Lodge of Massachusetts,
he assisted Governor Samuel Adams at
the laying of the cornerstone OF the Mas
sachusetts State House, July 4, 1895, and
also delivered an address on that occasion.
In 1888 Saint Andrews Lodge was divid-
ed upon the question Of remaining under
the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge OF
Scotland which had chartered both it and
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts,, or OF
affiliating with the latter Twenty-nine
members favored the old arrangement
while twenty three, including Revere,
desired to change. The minority with
drew and formed the Rising States Lodge
September, 1874, with Paul Revere its
first Master. He made jewels for these
Lodges, and engraved and printed elab-
crate certificates OF membership and no.
tification cards.
AT the death of General Washington he
was made one of committee OF three
Past Grand Masters to write letter OF
coincidence to Mrs. Washington, and to
solicit from her lock of the heros hair.
This request was granted, and Revere
executed a golden urn, about four inches
in height, for the reception Of the relic.
He was one Of the pallbearerS at the OBJ
servance OF Washington'S funeral by the
Masons of Boston and prepared the insig-
MIA, large white marble urn on pedes-
tai covered with pail and bearing other
suitable emblems. Through correspond
ence he cultivated the acquaintance OF
relatives in Guernsey and in France, and
from them learned much Of his family his
tory.
He died May 10, 1918, aged 80 years,
and was buried in Granary Burial Ground
in the company Of his formerfriends, John
Hancock and Samuel Adams, and in the
center OF the scenes of his activity almost
under the shadow of the State House
whose cornerstone he helped TO set and
whose significance he had labored TO es-
tabish. Paul Revere was the man for
the times, and the times developed Paul
Revere. His works are history, and his
personality is profitable and inspiring
study for all who regard public worth and
private virtue and integrity.