As long as the British troops occupied Boston and Charlestown, Joseph Warren’s mother, Mary, and his brothers, Sam, Eben, and Jack, were unable to retrieve his remains from Breed’s Hill. It would be almost a year before the British evacuated. Joseph died without a will, therefore, during this darkest period of grief his loved ones took care of the immediate needs of Joseph and his wife Elizabeth’s four orphans, …
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Jul 2026
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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Sep 2025
A serious historian must carefully consider his or her subject. Hours of diligent research and conscientious, consuming deliberation go into the presentation for accuracy of an individual’s reputation as well as historical fact and circumstances. In his book Bunker Hill, Nathaniel Philbrick states in his notes, pages 319-320, that with the encouragement of Samuel Forman, author of Dr. Joseph Warren, they created the fictitious narrative of a thirteen-year-old child …