King’s Chapel Burying Ground.
William Dawes (1745—99) was the other rider from The midnight ride of Paul Revere.
While Revere boated across the Charlestown River and started from Charlestown, Dawes left Boston through it’s neck to Roxbury, Brookline, Cambridge, and finally — arriving a half hour after Revere — Lexington.
For all their talk of reason and enlightenment, Washington and the other leading Founders were more religious than they sometimes seem. Most of them had no quarrel with religion as long as it was reasonable and orderly. Washington was a member of his Anglican, later Episcopal, church vestry, and he remained a frequent churchgoer — though unlike his wife, Martha, he never became a member of his church, meaning that he did not partake of the Eucharist on communion Sundays. Washington, the perfect Freemason, considered himself enlightened in religious matters (being no bigot myself to any mode of worship
), and he almost never knelt in prayer and seems never to have purchased a bible.