Joseph Warren

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Major General Joseph Warren

Joseph Warren (born June 10, 1741 in Roxbury , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † June 17, 1775 in Charlestown, Massachusetts ) was an American officer in the American Revolutionary War .

Life

His parents were Mary Warren, nee Stevens (* 1720) and the farmer and local politician Joseph Warren (* February 2, 1696, † October 23, 1755). After attending Latin School in Roxbury, he began studying medicine at Harvard University , graduating in 1759. In 1761, while practicing general medicine and surgery in Boston , he became a Freemason member of St. Andrew's Lodge . On November 30, 1768 he was elected Master of the Chair . On December 27, 1769, with the support of George Earl of Dalhousie , the Grand Master of Scotland, he co-founded the Provincial Grand Lodge of Massachusetts of the Ancients , which was set up in the Green Dragon Tavern and remained there until his death in the office of Grand Master .

In addition to John Hancock , James Otis Jr. , Samuel Adams and other liberal leaders, he was a member of the Sons of Liberty . He became chairman of the correspondence committee. On September 6, 1764 he married Elizabeth Hooten (* 1746, † 1772), who died in 1772 and left him with three children (Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary). It is said that it was he who sent William Dawes and Paul Revere on their famous "midnight rides" to warn Lexington and Concord of the British attack on April 18, 1775. He was named Major General by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress , but still fought as a frontline volunteer at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. He was killed during the battle. He formulated the Suffolk Resolves , which were ratified by the Continental Congress , to promote the powerful resistance against the British.

The deaths of General Warren and John Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill . Painting by John Trumbull .

He is immortalized in the painting The Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull . Warren County, New York , Warren County, North Carolina , Warren County, Ohio, and Warren County, Tennessee are named after Joseph Warren. In the Walt Disney film Johnny Tremain (1957) based on the novel by Esther Forbes , directed by Robert Stevenson , Joseph Warren is played by Walter Coy . 15 counties in the United States are named after Warren .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ William R. Denslow, Harry S. Truman: 10,000 Famous Freemasons from K to Z. 2004, OCLC 554978854 .
  2. ↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. Xiv.

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SURNAME Warren, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first American soldier to die in the American Revolutionary War
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Roxbury, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1775
Place of death Charlestown, Massachusetts