Joseph Warren Project (2nd of 4) – Where’s the City of Boston’s Monumental 1904 Statue?

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Author: Robert Vartanian (Continued from here) The plan called for the statue to be replaced where it previously stood, however the footprint of the area had been substantially reduced during the construction, and no longer would accommodate the return of the statue. This statue was placed in a storage facility in Franklin Park until its […]

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Joseph Warren Project (1st of 4) – Stature and Importance

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Author: Robert Vartanian It was a cold rainy day in late April of 2015 when R.W. Stan Gaw took it upon himself to locate the grave of M.W. Joseph Warren. Bro. Gaw, being an analytical person, first inquired at the office of the Forest Hills Cemetery for help on his quest. The office provided him […]

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The Suffolk Resolves in Draft

Author: Attributed on the basis of handwriting by the biographer John Cary to the Boston town clerk Date: September 6, 1774 “At a Convention of the Representative Comtees of the Several Towns &  Districts of the County of Suffolk in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, on Tuesday the 6th day of Septemr […]

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The Sight of Dr. Church Gave Us Great Joy

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Date: June 2,1775 [John Adams, at Philadelphia, to Abigail Adams] My Dear I had Yesterday the Pleasure of two Letters from you, by Dr. Church. We had been so long without any Intelligence from our Country, that the Sight of the Dr. gave us great joy. I have received no Letters from England, untill the […]

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His Commission is Made Out & I Shall Sign it Tomorrow

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[John Hancock to Joseph Warren] “My Dear Sir, Sunday Morng. 18 June 1775. Philada. I intended writing you a long Letter, but am prevented, by my Attention to the orders of Congress in Dispatching an Express & writing to Govr Trumbull on matters of infinite Importance, in short from my Situation in Congress I have […]

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Addressing Both Understanding and Passions – From the One he Forced Conviction from the Other He Stole Assent

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Date: April 8, 1776 “ILLUSTRIOUS RELICKS! WHAT Tidings from the Grave! Why hast thou left the peaceful Mansions of the Tomb, to visit again this troubled Earth! Art thou the welcome Messenger of Peace! Art thou risen again to exhibit thy glorious Wounds, and thro’ them proclaim Salvation to thy Country! Or art thou come […]

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May No Grief Your Little Hearts Oppress

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AN ELEGY OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH of Major General JOSEPH WARREN, who fell fighting  in Defense of the Glorious Cause of his Country, at Charlestown, in New England on the memorable 17th day of June, 1775 O!  Every mournful Muse inspire my Verse, Fill my young Breast with more than mortal Fire, For Notes alone […]

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Had Warren Been My Father I Could Not Have Mourn’d Him More

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Watertown June 19th 1775 My dearest Friend I thank you for the line you sent me this morning it was a cordial indeed; I had a very anxious night of it, but I committed you to the care of a kind and good God, who has answered you: blessed be his name for this Instance […]

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British at Bunker Hill – Ridiculous Parade of Triumph

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by Joseph Palmer “In Comtee of Safety, Watertown 25th July 1775… “…the Commanders of the New England Army, had about the 14th ulto received advice, that Genl: Gage had issued orders for a Party of Troops under his command to take possession, very soon, of a place [ ] by the Name of post themselves […]

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For Want of the Means of Defence Fall a Prey to Our Enemies

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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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