William Dawes
BIRTH
Apr 6, 1745
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
February 25, 1799
Marlborough, Massachusetts
FAMILY
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Dawes, William
(1745-1799)
William Dawes was a Boston tanner, militia officer, and Patriot messenger. On April 18, 1775, he rode by the land route from Boston to warn leaders in Lexington that British troops were marching toward Concord.
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WIFE
Mehitable May
(1751-1793)
Mehitable May Dawes
William Mears Dawes
(1771-1855)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Minute Man National Historical Park | 210 N Great Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773 | MUSEUM | ||
Old South Meeting House | 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK | ||
Route of William Dawes Marker | Massachusetts Ave & Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 | MARKER |
DIED:
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Feb 25, 1799
William Dawes was born on Apr 6, 1745 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.
The available biographical record identifies William Dawes with work or public activity as a rider. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. William Dawes died on Feb 25, 1799 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.