This immense interest in the famous ride of Paul Revere is all to the good. Thank you Sarah Palin. The amount of old papers and accounts are now brought into focus for the ordinary Joe out there (self included). All good for the mind for some of us. It seems that previously only a vague idea of the historic ride engendered by Longfellow was well known.
I've long felt that a daily or weekly deep history thread would be a good thing for Free Republic. If someone wanted to take it up I would like to be number one on the ping list.
In the mean time.....
Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
Many of the links are dead but the page provides a fine listing of documents that can be found with a little further searchuing.