On June 20, 1775, after three days of trying to determine his brother’s fate, Dr. Jack Warren, in an act of seeming desperation, headed toward British occupied Boston. In a biography of his father’s life, Dr. Edward Warren wrote, “While endeavoring, on this occasion, to pass a sentinel, in his overwhelming anxiety to ascertain his brother’s fate, Dr. [Jack] Warren received a thrust from a bayonet, the sear of …
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Jun 2026
On June 16, 1775, Warren was president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, chairman of the Committee of Safety, and awaiting his commission as major-general of the Massachusetts forces (which could only happen after a new president was seated in congress). His concerns were vast and colossal – how to feed, cloth, house, and supply the tens of thousands of men that turned out to face the British in battle …
What was he able to accomplish by staying? British General Thomas Gage was instructed to arrest Warren – why didn’t he? I’m not aware of any historians who have seriously considered these questions. I have co-authored an article, soon to be published, that addresses these questions – and will offer concise, historically documented answers. Warren’s unique ability to remain safely in Boston was his carefully strategized rise to the …
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May 2026
In my last post I presented the probability that members from St. Andrew’s Masonic Lodge participated in the destruction of the tea on Dec. 16, 1773. Both Joseph Warren and Paul Revere were prominent members of this lodge. Warren had also been appointed the Most Worshipful Grand Master of North America, offering him prominence in Freemasonry throughout the colonies and amongst British Officers who were Masons. Though he and …
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Dec 2025
I began my research of Joseph Warren in 1985. Warren was the foremost Patriot leader in 1775. He was a widowed father of four young children and a prominent Boston physician. His name, courage, and determination to stand opposed to British tyranny was known throughout the colonies and in England. Though not present, he unified the disgruntled First Continental Congress. He was forced to make the decision ALONE to …
On June 11, 1775, as the 16,000 American forces surrounded Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren – president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and chairman of the Committee of Safety turned thirty-four. His wife had died two years prior leaving him with four children ages one to nine. Though the children had been in the care of his mother and brother Sam at the family home in Roxbury, Warren made plans …