William Dawes, Jr

1745 - 1799  (53 years)

• Name	William Dawes  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Suffix	Jr
  Birth	6 Apr 1745	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 8]
  Gender	Male
  _MILT	18 Apr 1775	Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11]
  	Rode with Paul Revere to warn the Patriots of British attack
  		Battle-Midnight ride of Revere and Dawes
  Census	1790	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [7]
  DAR/SAR	Daughters of the American Revolution Ancestor #: A030777, Sons of the American Revolution DAR #: A030777  [2, 10, 11]
  		Seal-DAR
  		Seal-SAR
  FSID	LZDK-T3L
  Death	25 Feb 1799	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 3, 8]
  Burial	Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 5]
  		Cemetery-Kings Chapel Burying Grounds (Boston MA)
  		Tomb-DAWES William
  Person ID	I28292	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	William Dawes, Sr,   b. 2 Oct 1719, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 Nov 1802, Massachusetts, USA (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lydia Boone,   b. 27 Mar 1718, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. Sep 1760, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	6 May 1742	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [12, 13]
  Family ID	F12226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Apr 1745 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA _MILT - Rode with Paul Revere to warn the Patriots of British attack - 18 Apr 1775 - Massachusetts, USA Census - 1790 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Death - 25 Feb 1799 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Burial - - Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms and Icons		Seal-DAR
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• Sources

  [S550] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: A genealogy of the descendants of John May who came from England to Roxbury in America, 1640. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [S425] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 360. [S3182] Find a Grave: William Dawes Jr, (Name: Ancestry.com;), William Dawes Jr. Revolutionary War Figure. He grew up in Boston and became a tanner while he was active in the Boston Militia. On the night of April 18, 1775 it was his task, along with Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott, to warn the colonists that the British were going to launch an offensive on the countryside. On the way to Concord the three ran into a British road block. Splitting up and fleeing, Revere was captured and later released, Dawes was thrown from his horse and had to walk back to Lexington. Prescott rode on to Concord. The warnings of the trio allowed the local militias to garner their forces and achieve the first victory in the Revolutionary War. During the remainder of the war he served as a quartermaster in central Massachusetts. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1870/william-dawes Tomb-DAWES William [S3177] Ancestry.com, Boston, Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1700-1800, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1997;). [S3183] Hatcher, Patricia Law, Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;), Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots; Volume: 1; Serial: 11127; Volume: 2. [S1427] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;). Massachusetts, U.S., Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War [S212] Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1790; Census Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Series: M637; Roll: 4; Page: 45; Image: 62; Family History Library Film: 0568144. 1790 United States Federal Census [S425] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 250. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [S3179] Wikipedia: William Dawes, (Name: Wikipedia;), William Dawes. Dawes, who was known and trusted by Sons of Liberty leader Dr. Joseph Warren, was assigned by Warren to ride from Boston to Lexington, Massachusetts, on the night of April 18, 1775, when it became clear that a British column was going to march into the countryside. Dawes' mission was to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that they were in danger of arrest. Dawes took the land route out of Boston through the Boston Neck, leaving just before the British military sealed off the town.[6] Also acting under Dr. Warren, Paul Revere arranged for another rider waiting across the Charles River in Charlestown to be told of the army's route with lanterns hung in Old North Church. To be certain the message would get through, Revere rowed across the river and started riding westward himself. Later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's historically inaccurate poem "Paul Revere's Ride" would focus entirely on Revere, making him a composite of the many alarm riders that night. Dawes and Revere arrived at the Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington about the same time, shortly after midnight. Revere arrived slightly earlier, despite having stopped to speak to militia officers in towns along the way, as his route was shorter and his horse faster. After warning Adams and Hancock to leave, Revere and Dawes proceeded to Concord in case that was the British column's goal. Revere no doubt knew that the Provincial Congress had stored munitions there, including the cannon which Dawes had helped to secure. Along the way, the two men met Samuel Prescott, a local young physician, who joined them.[7] A squad of mounted British officers awaited on the road between Lexington and Concord. They had already arrested some riders heading west with news of the troops, and they called for Dawes, Revere, and Prescott to halt. The three men rode in different directions, hoping one would escape. Dawes, according to the story he told his children, rode into the yard of a house shouting that he had lured two officers there. Fearing an ambush, the officers stopped chasing him. Dawes's horse bucked him off, however, and he had to walk back to Lexington. He later said that in the morning, he returned to the same yard and found the watch that had fallen from his pocket. Otherwise, Dawes's activity during the Battle of Lexington and Concord remains unknown. Dawes and his companions' warnings allowed the town militias to muster a sufficient force for the first open battle of the American Revolutionary War and the first colonial victory. The British troops did not find most of the weapons they had marched to destroy and sustained serious losses during their retreat to Boston while under attack by the colonists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dawes [S3180] DAR: William Dawes Jr, (Name: Daughters of the American Revolution;), DAWES, WILLIAM JR -- Ancestor #: A030777. Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, MAJOR Birth: 4-6-1745 BOSTON SUFFOLK CO MASSACHUSETTS Death: 2-25-1799 MARLBOROUGH MIDDLESEX CO MASSACHUSETTS Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 4, P 559; FISCHER, PAUL REVERE'S RIDE, P 98 Service Description: 1) SECOND MAJOR IN COL HENRY BROMFIELD'S REGT 2) RODE TO SPREAD ALARM, 18 APRIL 1775 https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A030777 [S3181] SAR: William Dawes Jr, (Name: Sons of the American Revolution;), William DAWES Jr -- SAR Patriot #: P-145216. State of Service: MA Qualifying Service: Major / Patriotic Service DAR #: A030777 Birth: 06 Apr 1745 Boston / Suffolk / MA Death: 25 Feb 1799 Marlborough / Middlesex / MA Patriotic Service Description: 2nd Maj in Col Henry Bromfield's Reg't (Boston) Sources: SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ., 2002) plus data to 2004 Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol 4, p 559 Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 1995, p98 https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/145216 [S2718] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). [S3178] Ancestry.com, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., Marriages, 1700-1809, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2000;).