History is sometimes not quite what you think....but Robery Wuhl's comedy special on why Israel Bissell was passed over for Paul Revere in the legendary poem was that his name "sounded like a Jewish vacuum cleaner" was very funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Bissell
(That joke has even made it into the Popular Culture section of Israel's Wikipedia page).
(That joke has even made it into the Popular Culture section of Israel's Wikipedia page).