(Janet Uhlar’s interview with Arun Rath on Boston GBH’s ‘All Things Considered’) Below is the link to an interview regarding newly published, documented information which answers the question of Dr. Joseph Warren’s great enigma to remain safely in Boston when most Patriot leaders fled. In the interview Warren’s unique ability and crucial role in igniting the American Revolution is finally explained. This interview with Arun Rath, host of Boston …
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 the night of June 16, 1775, an earthen redoubt was to be constructed under the cover of darkness on a prominence on a peninsula in the town of Charlestown known as Bunker Hill. In earlier discussions of occupying this hill, Warren was skeptical. Now, there was no choice. On the morning of June 17, Warren discovered that the redoubt was not constructed on Bunker Hill, as planned, but …
There was a spy among the inner circle of Boston’s Patriot leaders (Dr. Benjemin Church) and Massachusetts military governor General Thomas Gage was fully aware that Warren had a position of leadership in the destruction of the tea; was an outspoken member of the “illegal” MA Provincial Congress; authored the Suffolk Resolves which called for preparation for conflict; and was the one who united – though was not present …
Joseph Warren was able to take on risks no other Patriot leader could due to his prominent Masonic position of Most Worshipful Grand Master of North America. His name and position were known throughout the colonies. This position offered him respect and protection from fellow colonists and British officers alike. As mentioned in my previous post, when Boston Patriot leaders feared taking on a necessary secret mission to England, …
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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 …
Dr. Joseph Warren was a Freemason, and though this was customary in 18th century Europe and America, there was nothing common about Warren’s involvement in the Craft. In 1761, while training as a medical apprentice he entered the Lodge of St. Andrew (Boston’s ancient lodge). He attended meetings sporadically then stopped attending for four years. In 1765 – Warren had his medical practice established, was married and had a …
WARREN 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 was the one who unified the disgruntled First Continental Congress. As the only patriot leader from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and MA Committee of Safety in Boston on April 18, 1775, he …