Lost and Legendary Riders
September 16
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Suffolk University and on YouTube
Smith Commons, 5th floor, 120 Tremont Street
Speakers
J.L. Bell
Beyond Paul Revere and his companions, Americans have passed along stories of other notable riders on April 19, 1775. Historian J. L. Bell investigates the facts and fiction behind such figures as Hezekiah Wyman, the dreaded “White Horseman”; Abel Benson and Abigail Smith, children said to have helped raise the alarm in Middlesex County; and Israel Bissell, the post rider credited with carrying news of the fight all the way to Philadelphia.
This lecture is a part of the Paul Revere Memorial Association’s series “Whose Midnight Ride? Reflections on the 250th Anniversary of the Famous Ride.”
J.L. Bell.
J. L. Bell is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War and many articles about Massachusetts in the 1760s and 1770s. He maintains the Boston 1775 blog, offering daily updates of history, analysis, and unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England.