Hancock-Clarke House
Massachusetts
On the night of April eighteenth, seventeen seventy-five, Paul Revere rode to this house on Hancock Street in Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that British regulars were marching from Boston. Hancock and Adams had been sleeping here as guests of the Reverend Jonas Clarke. Revere's midnight ride gave them just enough time to escape before the Redcoats arrived.
Clarke's parsonage thus became the pivot point of the most consequential night of the American Revolution. The house still stands, now owned by the Lexington Historical Society and open for tours, with original furnishings from the Clarke and Hancock families.
