Latest on Historically Designating Joseph Warren’s Family Homestead in Roxbury

Join historically minded Roxbury residents wanting to save the Warren homestead by signing their petition here. Recall that this location is the birthplace and childhood home of the Warren family, including Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775) and his youngest brother and prominent physician Dr. John Warren (1753-1815). Their mother Mary Stevens Warren lived […]

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Joseph Warren’s and Paul Revere’s Legacies Besmirched by a Shadow Reference

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Author: Paul Revere (alleged) Date: 1948 “From Revere’s account books: “Feb 22, 1773, Doct. Joseph Warren. To mend of a Tank and planns. 1.40  To taking out bicuspid 0.40″” Sources:  Weinberger, Bernhard Wolf. Introduction to the History of Dentistry in America. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company, 1948. pp. 116-117. The source manuscript which Bernard Weinberger […]

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Fragment of Joseph Warren’s Missing Account Books – Discovery Document

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Author: Joseph Warren Date: April 6 and 7, 1771 Source: Samuel A. Forman’s personal collection.  Two sided day book page fragment in Joseph Warren’s handwriting, no signature, acquired at eBay auction February 10, 2010 for $700. Partially affixed with glue onto the flyleaf of the presentation copy of a book. A separate note by Bunker […]

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Speak Out! 4th Annual Boston Massacre Anniversary Orations – now March 28, 2018

Note: Yes, there will be a Springtime snow in Boston. Event just rescheduled to March 28, 2018 at 6 PM. See Old South Meetinghouse’s website for the latest information. Each year from 1772 to 1775, massive gatherings of men, women and children were held at Old South Meeting House to commemorate the anniversary of the […]

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Will Plaque Mark Revolution’s Start?

The site of Joseph Warren's house is beneath Boston City Hall Plaza

Date: Sunday, September 3, 2017 Author: Sara Salinas, Boston Globe Correspondent “While city officials look to bring new life to City Hall Plaza, a group of local historians is calling for a memorial to the life once lived under the bricks. Historians have mapped the approximate location of the former home of Joseph Warren, a […]

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“Naturally Impelled to Acts of Treachery” – Dr. Benjamin Church’s 1773 Boston Massacre Oration in Full Text

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An ORATION; delivered March 5th, 1773, at the Request of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN of BOSTON; to Commemorate the bloody TRAGEDY of the FIFTH of March, 1770. By Dr. BENJAMIN CHURCH. Impius haec culta novalia miles habebit? Barbarus has segetes? En quo Discordia cives Perduxit miseros? En queis consevimus agros?    Virgil.  Ecl. I. O […]

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1772 Boston Massacre Oration – Full Text

Date: March 5, 1772 quis talia fando/Myrmidonum, Dolopumve, aut duri miles Ulyssei, /Temperet a lacrymis. (Vergil, Aeneid Bk. II, 6-8)  When we turn over the historic page, and trace the rise and fall of states and empires, the mighty revolutions which have so often varied the face of the world strike our minds and with […]

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Lovell’s 1771 Boston Massacre Oration in Full Text – Slaves Envy the Freedom of Others and Take a Malicious Pleasure in Contributing to Destroy It

by James Lovell Omnes homines natura Libertati student, et CONDITIONEM Servitutis oderunt. Caes. —: Nunc ea petit, quae dare aullo modo possumus, nisi priùus volumus nos bello victos confiteri. Cic. At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Town Meeting assembled, by Adjournment, on Tuesday the 2d Day […]

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Desperate Plea to New York

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“Cambridge, June 4, 1775. May it please your Honours: We beg leave to represent to you the peculiar distresses of this Colony, being assured that you will, as the wise guardians of the lives, liberties, and properties of the whole of this extensive Continent, attend to the several circumstances of all who, under God, look […]

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The Only Rightful and Constitutional Council of this Province

Date: September 26, 1774. “At a Meeting of the Freeholders of this town, on Wednesday, the 21st instant, at Faneuil Hall, the following gentlemen were chosen to represent them in the General Assembly, to be held on the 5th of next month, viz: the Honourable Thomas Cushing, Esquire, Mr. Samuel Adams, the Honourable John Hancock, […]

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