[Ads-l] Paul Revere Quote

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Apr 13 16:03:01 UTC 2017

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The earliest mention I have found of Paul Revere's alleged quotation "The British are coming" is in Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge, Stories of a Grandfather About American History (1874).  Can anyone supply any earlier occurrences?


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