He suspected the soldiers would soon be sent after the leaders of the illegal Provincial Congress, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were staying in Lexington, a town across the Charles River and ...
They were John Hancock 1754, James Bowdoin 1745, Samuel Adams 1770, Increase Sumner 1767, Caleb Strong 1764, Christopher Gore 1776, Elbridge Gerry 1762, William Eustis 1772, Levi Lincoln 1802 ...
To warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were across the Charles River in Lexington, Warren dispatched two riders, Paul Revere and William Dawes. Revere took the shorter route "by sea," while ...