Joseph Warren (1741 - 1775)

Born 10 Jun 1741 in Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Hooten) Warren — married 20 Aug 1764 in Boston, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 17 Jun 1775 at age 34 in Charlestown, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Joseph Warren is Notable.

Dr. Gen. Joseph Warren served with Massachusetts Line during the American Revolution.

Dr. Gen. Joseph Warren was Killed in Action during the American Revolution.

Joseph Warren is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A121599.

Joseph Warren is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 313935
Rank: Major General

Dr Joseph Warren was a physician, Revolutionary War General and early American Patriot Leader.

Born on 30 May 1741 (10 June 1741 according to the Gregorian calendar),^[1] Joseph Warren Jr was the son of Joseph Warren and Mary (Stevens) Warren. Joseph Warren Sr. was a respected farmer, who died while climbing a tree gathering apples in October 1755. He married Elizabeth Hooten on September 6, 1764. They had five children one of them Joseph Warren Jr. became a graduate of Harvard after studying medicine. Eventually opening his own practice.

When Elizabeth, died on February 28, 1773, Joseph raised his five children alone. In the early 1770s, he was close to patriots Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, and was an original member of the Sons of Liberty. After hearing about the battles of Lexington and Concord. Joseph left his practice to help soldiers prepare for battle. On the night of April 18, 1775 Warren sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn patriot leaders Samuel Adams, John Hancock and the Citizens Militia that the British Army was marching from Boston to Lexington and Concord. He was promoted to second general in command of the Massachusetts forces on June 14, 1775. On June 17, 1775, Warren met with the committee of safety and found out that British forces were landing at Charleston. Warren then rode to the American fort at Breed's Hill. He was offered command over a group of militia, but refused it because he wanted to go in as a regular volunteer. During the third attack from the British Dr. Joseph Warren was shot in the head and died instantly.^[2]

Legacy

• Fourteen US states have counties named in Joseph Warren's honor: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4LP-J7Z : 20 May 2022), Joseph Warren, 30 May 1741; citing Birth, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009473.
2. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 4 April 2024), "Record of Joseph Warren", Ancestor # A121599.

See also:

• Wikipedia:Joseph_Warren
• National Park Service: Doctor Joseph Warren
• Pavao Janelle, "Joseph Warren." Revolutionary-War.net. Greatest Stories Ever Told. 2014. Accessed 27 January 2015. <http://www.revolutionary-war.net/Joseph-Warren.html>.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #3066
• Proceedings of the Bostonian Society (The Society, Old State House, Boston, 1886) "Annual Meeting, January 12, 1886", Page 18 See footnote.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Nov. 28, 2016), "Record of Major General Joseph Warren", Ancestor # A121599.

See also

• Di Spigna, Christian. Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero. (New York: Crown, 2018) link
• Di Spigna, Christian. Dr. Joseph Warren: Reflection, Research & Remembrance, "American Ancestors" (NEHGS, Boston, Fall 2019) Vol. 20, No. 3, Page 42.
• McKenna, Jeffery J. (2020). Saving Dr. Warren . . . A True Patriot. ISBN 978-0999901205.