Although Revere was not one of the " Loyal Nine " — organizers of the earliest protests against the Stamp Act — he was well connected with its members , who were laborers and artisans . Revere did not participate in some of the more raucous protests , such as the attack on the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson . In 1765 , a group of militants who would become known as the " Sons of Liberty " formed , of which Revere was a member . From 1765 on , in support of the dissident cause , he produced engravings and other artifacts with political themes . Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival of British troops in 1768 ( which he termed " an insolent parade " ) and a famous depiction of the March 1770 Boston Massacre ( see illustration ) . Although the latter was engraved by Revere and he included the inscription , " Engraved , Printed , & Sold by Paul Revere Boston " , it was modeled on a drawing by Henry Pelham , and Revere 's engraving of the drawing was colored by a third man and printed by a fourth . Revere also produced a bowl commemorating the Massachusetts assembly 's refusal to retract the Massachusetts Circular Letter . ( This letter , adopted in response to the 1767 Townshend Acts , called for united colonial action against the acts . King George III had issued a demand for its retraction . ) In 1770 Revere purchased a house on North Square in Boston 's North End . Now a museum , the house provided space for his growing family while he continued to maintain his shop at nearby Clark 's Wharf . Sarah died in 1773 , and on October 10 of that year , Revere married Rachel Walker ( 1745 – 1813 ) . They had eight children , three of whom died young
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre
Paul Revere