The MHS holds several resources that provide information about Paul Revere's bell casting business. Foremost is the collection of Revere family papers which contains correspondence and other family papers along with about 50 volumes of records (waste and account books, ledgers, receipts, etc.) related to Revere businesses in Boston and Canton, MA. Click the link to open the online collection guide and then use the yellow "Find keywords" button to find where the word bell appears in the description.
More specific to the question of church bells, the MHS holds an unpublished work by Edward and Evelyn Stickney called Revere reverberations. Their work includes an inventory of Revere-made church bells, 1792-1838, which the authors compiled through extensive travels around New England and beyond visiting as many bells as they could find. Click the link to see a brief description of the work in our online catalog.
For a modern examination of Paul Revere as a businessman, see Robert Martello's Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn : Paul Revere and the growth of American enterprise (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010).
To see these and other related materials held at the MHS, try searching the following phrases (as "Subject") in our online catalog, ABIGAIL :
- Bells
- Paul Revere and Son
- Copper industry and trade--Massachusetts
- Metal-workers--Massachusetts
- Silversmiths--Massachusetts
- Revere, Paul [As either Author/Creator or Subject for works by or about the man, respectively]
