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William Dawes

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William Dawes

Midnight Rider with Paul Revere

    William Dawes Jr.

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • 6 Apr 1745 
    • Birth Location:
    • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • 25 Feb 1799 
    • Death Location:
    • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Notes: 

    • William Dawes, Paul Revere, and Samuel Prescott were among the midnight riders who warned John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the approaching British. Paul Revere would receive most of the credit for these midnight rides due to the historically inaccurate poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

  • Marriages for William Dawes Jr.

    • Spouse:
    • Mehitable May
    • Marriage Date:
    • 3 May 1768
    • Marriage Location:
    • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
    • Spouse:
    • Lydia Gendell
    • Marriage Date:
    • 18 Nov 1795
    • Marriage Location:
    • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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  • Sources for William Dawes Jr.

    • 1 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 10, 37-46, 423.