(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 …
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Jul 2026
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, …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Joseph Warren was the embodiment of the American colonists’ struggle to secure their rights within the British empire. In June of 1775, Warren had just turned thirty-four. He was a widowed father of four young children and an esteemed Boston physician. His political leadership in Massachusetts started in 1765. A protege of Samuel Adams, Warren’s influence began through his writings and orations as a staunch defender of the right …
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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 …