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William Dawes

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
War Hero
Died
Feb 25, 1799
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Massachusetts
About
Famous as one of the people sent on a midnight horseback mission at the start of the American Revolutionary War to alert the colonial militia that the British were approaching, he went on to serve in the war as a member of a Boston regiment.
Family
The son of William Dawes and Lydia Boone, he spent his youth in Boston, Massachusetts. His first marriage to Mehitable May produced six children. He later married Lydia Gendall; they had one child together.

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