1. Samuel Prescott is best known for his role in Paul Revere's "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts, of the impending British army move to capture guns and gunpowder kept there at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Samuel Prescott was the only participant in the ride to reach Concord.
Samuel Prescott grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, where his family had lived for generations.
Samuel Prescott became a physician, as his father and grandfather had been before him.
Samuel Prescott's older sibling, Nathanial, worked in his late father's clock shop and was a member of Captain John Parker's militia.
Samuel Prescott, according to Revere's account, took off on horseback towards a stone wall, jumped his horse over it, and disappeared into dense woods.
Samuel Prescott alerted the Hartwell family who, in turn, raced off to warn others.
On his way to Concord, Samuel Prescott alerted other houses in Lincoln and soon additional riders rode off to alert other towns.
When Samuel Prescott arrived in Concord, he gave word to the sentry there and the Concord First Parish Church bell was rung to alert the town.
In Concord, Prescott bid his brother Abel to ride to Sudbury to alert companies there while, according to tradition, Samuel rode to Acton and Stow to carry the alarm there.
Samuel Prescott's supposed ride through Acton is reenacted every Patriots' Day beginning in East Acton and concluding at the Liberty Tree Farm, where once stood the home of a minuteman named Simon Hunt.