Date: May 24, 1756 (extract) “Real Estate Valuation of Joseph Warren Estate, land valued at 1345 Pounds.” Source: In John Collins Warren Papers II, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Commentary: Widow Mary Stevens Warren took on considerable responsibility to keep the Roxbury family farm intact and viable following the untimely death of her husband, Joseph Warren […]
about Warren 1765 and prior
Date: April 13, 1764 Author: John Adams “My dearest We arrived at Captn. Cunninghams, about Twelve O’Clock and sent our Compliments to Dr. Perkins. The Courrier returned with Answer that the Dr. was determined to inoculate no more without a Preparation preevious to Inoculation. That We should have written to him and have received Directions […]
Date: 1800s, referring to 1764 Author: John Adams “In the Winter of 1764 the Small Pox prevailing in Boston, I went with my Brother into Town and was inocculated under the Direction of Dr. Nathaniel Perkins and Dr. Joseph Warren. This Distemper was very terrible even by Inocculation at that time. My Physicians dreaded it, […]
Date: 1765 Author: Cotton Tufts “Gentlemen: You have enclos’d the substance of a paper that was not long since circulated amongst a number of physicians — In compliance with which there has been a meeting of a number of physicians who have confer’d upon the subject & have adjourned their meeting to ye first Wednesday […]
Date: April 19, 1764 Author: William Cooper “The following Advertisement was sent the several Printers, for a place in their Papers — viz’. The Time for the permission of Inoculation in this Town by a Vote of the Inhabitants at a General Town Meeting being limitted to the 20′. of April ends to Morrow, therefore […]
