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 …
JACK WARREN WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE FOUR WARREN BROTHERS – THE SONS OF JOSEPH WARREN SR. AND MARY (STEVENS) WARREN. Joseph Sr. died instantly from a fall while picking apples in the family’s orchard in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Jack, only two-years-old, witnessed his father’s death. The shock of this tragedy can hardly be imagined Joseph, Mary’s eldest son, had just begun his freshman year at Harvard. He was fourteen …