Paul Revere Chapter, NSDAR

10/10/2026

Today, the Chapter celebrated the founding of DAR by volunteering at the Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge. We volunteered in the gardens of the site for DAR Day of Service. Fourteen people, including nine members and two prospectives, joined to plant bulbs, prune hedges, rake leaves, and other maintenance of the historic gardens. The National Park Service works hard to keep the gardens open to the public for all to enjoy and they keep conservation top of mind with pollinators and their own composting. We even signed one prospective member application!

The Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site was built in 1759 and became George Washington’s first headquarters during the American Revolution. In 1843, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow moved into the house with his wife and it soon became his family’s home for decades. In the early 1900s, Alice Longfellow, daughter of Henry Wadsworth and a DAR member herself, restored the gardens. The house is where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem “Paul Revere’s Ride' so it was exceptionally special for our chapter!

Daughters of the American Revolution National Headquarters

09/26/2026

Our September Chapter meeting was a Constitution Week celebration. We were honored to have Stephen Kenney from the The Commonwealth Museum speak to us about the Massachusetts Constitution and its role in influencing the US Constitution.

Congratulations to our Registrar, Mary Ann, for graduating from the DAR GEP 1 and GEP 2 courses!

09/22/2026

09/17/2026

Today marks the beginning of Constitution Week! Join us in the tradition of Bells Across America by ringing a bell for one minute at 4:00 pm EDT today.

Happy Constitution Week! Today marks the beginning of a tradition the DAR has proudly led for 70 years: celebrating September 17-23 as Constitution Week, a time to honor the United States Constitution and the freedoms it protects.

On this day in 1787, the Constitution was signed in Philadelphia at 4:00 pm, and church bells rang out across the city to mark the moment. Join us in the tradition of Bells Across America by ringing a bell for one minute at 4:00 pm EDT today to herald the start of Constitution Week.

09/03/2026

243 years ago today, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the American Revolution and giving America its independence.

“On Wednesday the third day of this Month, the American Ministers met the British Minister at his Lodgings at the Hôtel de York, and signed, sealed and delivered the Definitive Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the King of Great Britain.”

The Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston has John Adams’ copy of the Treaty in their Adams Family Papers. Read more about it in their blog post:

“Signed, sealed and delivered”: The Treaty that Ended the Revolutionary War March 18, 2026 By Amanda A. Mathews, Adams Papers “On Wednesday the third day of this Month, the American Ministers met the British Minister at his Lodgings at the Hôtel de York, and signed, sealed and delivered the D...

08/29/2026

Today the Chapter visited The Shirley-Eustis House for a Summer Tea Party! A lovely, historic house is the perfect place for tea party 🫖

08/14/2026

August 14, 1765, Boston's Sons of Liberty gathered beneath a great elm tree to protest the Stamp Act, Britain's first direct tax on the American colonies. They hung an effigy of the local stamp tax collector from its branches, and that elm soon earned a new name: the Liberty Tree.

It became a rallying point for Patriots in the years that followed, a living symbol that resistance to ""taxation without representation"" could take root and grow.

Eleven years before independence was declared, the seeds of revolution were already being planted.

07/18/2026

On July 18,1776 the Declaration of Independence was read to Bostonians outside the Old State House for the first time. After, jubilant Bostonians climbed the building and tore down the lion and unicorn - symbols of the British crown. The surrounding streets were renamed from King Street and Queen Street to State Street and Court Street.

Today, 250 years later, Revolutionary Spaces celebrated this historic reading by inviting Massachusetts students to read the Declaration inside the Council Chamber.

07/04/2026

Happy 250th, America 🇺🇸

Today, Bostonians celebrated the Semiquincentennial with the time honored tradition of the Declaration of Independence reading from the balcony of the Old State House. It was first read here in July 1776, two weeks after it was signed in Philadelphia.

The Old Granary Burying Ground in Boston is the burying site of three signers of the Declaration: Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and John Hancock.

07/03/2026