Sarah Orne Revere
(1736-1773)
BIRTH
April 7, 1736
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
May 3, 1773
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER
John Orne
(1709 (1710?)–?)
HUSBAND
Paul Revere
(1734-1818)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sarah Orne Revere (1736–1773) was Paul Revere’s first wife, from an artisan and seafaring family in Boston and Salem. They married in August 1757 and had eight children. At their North Square home she managed the household while Revere worked nearby as a silversmith. Her signature survives on a property deed. She died in May 1773, shortly after her youngest child’s birth, before Revere’s famous ride. Sources disagree on the exact wedding and death days.
EARLY LIFE
Sarah Orne was born on Apr 7, 1736 in Boston, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Sarah Orne is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Sarah Orne died on May 3, 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Orne died on May 3, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sarah Orne Revere was Paul Revere’s first wife, from an artisan and seafaring family in Boston and Salem. They married in August 1757 and had eight children. At their North Square home she managed the household while Revere worked nearby as a silversmith. Her signature survives on a property deed. She died in May 1773, shortly after her youngest child’s birth, before Revere’s famous ride. Sources disagree on the exact wedding and death days. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Granary Burying Ground
Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA
GRAVE
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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