Revere, Paul

Autograph document signed in text ("Paul Revere & Son") on a slip of paper (5 x 5 7/8 in.; 130 x 145 mm), Boston, 5 May 1797 being a bill made out to Thomas Davis Jr. for two engraved tankards for use by the Church of Beverley; creased. Blue folding portfolio, printed label on upper board.   

In addition to these tankards, each engraved with a presentation inscription and used for communion service, Revere also made spoons, a tall ewer, and a bell for the First Parish Church in Beverly, Massachusetts. In the late 1820s when the Church converted to Unitarianism, it stopped holding regular communion services. In 1828, the Church gave one of the tankards to the Second Parish Church in North Beverly on the occasion of the dedication of its new building. The other tankard was given to the Christian Church in Beverly Farms when its building was erected in 1831.