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56-746: SS  General Warren was an American steamship that operated on the Pacific Coast until she wrecked off the Oregon Coast in 1852. Named after General Joseph Warren her early history is unknown, but she began Pacific service in October 1850 under the ownership of Garrison & Fritz in Panama . On January 28, 1852, she departed Astoria, Oregon bound for San Francisco under the command of Captain Charles Thompson with 52 people and

112-418: A Warren County named after him. Additionally, Warren, Pennsylvania ; Warren, Michigan ; Warren, New Jersey ; Warrenton, Missouri ; Warrenton, Virginia ; Warren, Maine ; Warren, Massachusetts ; Warrenton, North Carolina ; Warren, Connecticut and 30 Warren Townships as well as Warrensville, Eldred Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania are also named in his honor. The New York county of Warren

168-595: A major general in the colony's militia shortly before the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill . Rather than exercise his rank, Warren chose to participate in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed's Hill . His death, immortalized in John Trumbull 's painting, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 , galvanized

224-622: A British officer's servant, an account supported by a forensic analysis conducted in 2011. After the battle, Warren's body was stripped of his clothing, repeatedly bayoneted and then buried in a shallow ditch by British forces. Captain Walter Laurie, who participated in the battles of Lexington and Concord , later wrote that he "stuffed the scoundrel with another rebel into one hole, and there he and his seditious principles may remain." American soldier Benjamin Hichborn subsequently wrote

280-484: A cargo of largely farm goods aboard. After crossing Clatsop Spit , she encountered heavy weather and began taking on water. On the morning of the 29th, she made a course back to the Columbia River , and in the afternoon boarded pilot George Flavel, who had brought her out the previous day. By evening the ebb tide was flowing strongly out from the river, and General Warren took on water while struggling to cross

336-668: A city, borough, and county all named after the general. Fort Warren on George's Island in Boston harbor, started in 1833, was named in his honor. In 1840, the first Warren School was built on Salem Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts near Bunker Hill. It relocated to School and Summer Streets in 1868, and later merged with the Prescott School to form the Warren-Prescott School . Fourteen states have

392-661: A committee in response to the Gaspée Affair and to the recent British decision to have the salaries of the royal governor and judges be paid by the British Crown rather than the colonial assembly, a measure which effectively stripped the colony of its means of holding public officials accountable to their constituents. In the following months, more than one hundred other committees were formed in towns and villages throughout Massachusetts. The Massachusetts committee's headquarters, based in Boston and led by Adams, became

448-684: A committee of correspondence on October 15, 1773. The Maryland committee stated that there was an "absolute necessity of a general and firm union of sister colonies to preserve common liberties", and called for a meeting of this union to be held in Philadelphia. In response to the news that the Port of Boston would be closed under the Boston Port Act , an advertisement was posted at the coffee house on Wall Street in New York City ,

504-465: A letter to John Adams on December 10, 1775, claiming that Lieutenant James Drew, a Royal Navy officer stationed onboard the sloop HMS Scorpion , went to Breed's Hill "a day or two" after the battle and exhumed Warren's body, "spit in his face, jumped on his stomach, and at last cut off his head and committed every act of violence upon his body... In justice to the officers in general I must add, that they despised Drew for his Conduct." Warren's body

560-408: A model for other Patriot groups. The meeting establishing the committee set its purpose, outlining "the rights of the colonists, and of this province in particular, as men, as Christians , and as subjects; to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this province and to the world as the sense of this town." The Province of Maryland became the eighth of the thirteen colonies to appoint

616-467: A more simple life. The committees gradually extended their power over many aspects of American public life. In late 1774 and early 1775, they supervised the elections of provincial conventions, which began the operation of a true colonial government. The first committees of correspondence were established in Boston in 1764 to rally opposition to the Currency Act and unpopular reforms imposed on

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672-470: A noted place of resort for shipmasters and merchants, inviting merchants to meet on May 16, 1774, at the Fraunces Tavern "in order to consult on measures proper to be pursued on the present critical and important situation." At the meeting, chaired by Isaac Low , the committee resolved to nominate a 50-member committee of correspondence to be submitted to the public. On May 17, 1774, they published

728-426: A notice calling on the public to meet at the coffee house on May 19 at 1 p.m. to approve the committee and appoint others as they may see fit. At the meeting on May 19, Francis Lewis was also nominated and the entire Committee of Fifty-one was confirmed. On May 23, 1774, the committee met at the coffee house and appointed Isaac Low as permanent chairman and John Alsop as deputy chairman. The committee then formed

784-535: A second committee, followed by Sussex County . Following the recommendation of the First Continental Congress in 1774, the committees were replaced by elected "committees of inspection" with a subcommittee of correspondence. The new committees specialized in intelligence work, especially the identification of men opposed to the Patriot cause. The committees were a driving force in popularizing

840-542: A subcommittee, which produced a letter in response to the letters from Boston, calling for a "Congress of Deputies from the Colonies" to be assembled, which became known as the First Continental Congress and was approved by the committee. On May 30, 1774, the Committee formed a subcommittee to write a letter to the supervisors of New York's counties to exhort them to also form similar committees of correspondence, which

896-698: Is also named for him, as well as Warren Street in Trenton, New Jersey . Warren joined the Freemasons , being initiated in the St. Andrew's Lodge, and later became Past Provincial Grand Master of Massachusetts . Warren was a Scottish Freemason. He was a member of Lodge St Andrews, No.81, (Boston, Massachusetts), which held a Charter from the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The Lodge continues to meet in Boston under

952-707: Is named after him, but the town of Warrensburg within that county is not; the town is in fact named after James Warren, a prominent early settler. The streets of Detroit, Michigan, were redesigned after the 1806 fire, based on the Pierre L'Enfant Plan for Washington, D.C.; Warren Avenue in Detroit is named after Joseph Warren. Five ships in the Continental Navy and United States Navy were named Warren in his honor. Warren Square in Savannah, Georgia ,

1008-485: Is referenced in the A. W. Burns/George W. Hewitt song "America Shall Aye Be Free" . Committee of Correspondence The committees of correspondence were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution . The brainchild of Samuel Adams , a Patriot from Boston ,

1064-608: Is rumored to have said that Warren's death was equal to the death of 500 ordinary colonials. It encouraged the revolutionary cause because it was viewed by many Americans as an act of martyrdom . At the time of Warren's death, his children were staying with his fiancée, Mercy Scollay, in Worcester as refugees from the Siege of Boston. She continued to look after them, gathering support for their education from John Hancock , Samuel Adams , Mercy Otis Warren , Benedict Arnold , and even

1120-544: The British Crown , and to disseminate information from cities to the countryside. The news was typically spread via hand-written letters or printed pamphlets, which would be carried by couriers on horseback or aboard ships. The committees were responsible for ensuring that this news accurately reflected the views of Patriots , and was dispatched to the proper receiving groups. Many correspondents were members of colonial legislative assemblies, and others were also active in

1176-817: The Bunker Hill Monument , another on the grounds of the Roxbury Latin School, and the third atop the puddingstone at his grave site at the Forest Hills Cemetery (this statue was commissioned by the 6th Masonic District, and dedicated in a ceremony by the Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts on October 22, 2016). The fourth is in a small park on the corner of Third and Pennsylvania avenues in Warren, Pennsylvania ,

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1232-665: The Continental Congress . Joseph's youngest brother and apprentice in medicine, John Warren , served as a surgeon during the Battle of Bunker Hill and the rest of the war, and afterwards founded Harvard Medical School and co-founded the Massachusetts Medical Society . There are at least four statues of Joseph Warren on public display. Three are in Boston: one in the exhibit lodge adjacent to

1288-579: The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts . The date he joined the Lodge is not known but was during the period after the inauguration of the Lodge on St Andrew's Day, 30 November 1756 and 15 May 1769 when he is recorded in the Grand Lodge of Scotland's membership register as being the Master of the Lodge. Paul Revere and William Palfrey are also recorded, in the same entry, with Revere being named as Secretary of

1344-540: The Province of South Carolina . By February 1774, 11 colonies had set up their own committees; of the thirteen colonies that eventually rebelled, only the provinces of North Carolina and Pennsylvania did not. In Delaware Colony , a committee of correspondence was established by Thomas McKean after ten years of agitation centered in New Castle County . In neighboring Kent County , Caesar Rodney set up

1400-702: The Roxbury Latin School , Joseph enrolled in Harvard College , graduating in 1759, and then taught for about a year at Roxbury Latin. [1] While teaching at Roxbury, Warren pursued postgraduate studies at Harvard, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1763 after defending a thesis against the proposition that all disease was caused by obstruction of bodily vessels. He married 18-year-old heiress Elizabeth Hooten on September 6, 1764. She died in 1773, leaving him with four children: Elizabeth, Joseph, Mary, and Richard. Before his death in 1775, he

1456-828: The Siege of Boston , promulgating the Patriots' version of events, and negotiating with Gen. Gage in his role as head of the Provincial Congress. Warren was commissioned into the Continental Army at the rank of major general by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. Three days later, he arrived at Charlestown just before the battle of Bunker Hill began and made his way to where Patriot militiamen were forming. Upon meeting General Israel Putnam , Warren asked where he thought

1512-690: The Sons of Liberty and Stamp Act Congress . A total of about 7,000 to 8,000 Patriots served on these committees at the colonial and local levels, comprising most of the leadership in their communities; Loyalists were naturally excluded. The committees became the leaders of the American resistance to Great Britain , and largely directed the Revolutionary War effort at the state and local level. The committees promoted patriotism and home manufacturing, advising Americans to avoid luxuries, and lead

1568-533: The British royal government, established the first long-standing committee with the approval of a town meeting in late 1772. By spring 1773, Patriots decided to follow the Massachusetts system and began to set up their own committees in each colony. The Colony of Virginia appointed an eleven-member committee in March, quickly followed by the colonies of Rhode Island , Connecticut , the Province of New Hampshire , and

1624-463: The British were mobilizing.) Warren slipped out of Boston early on April 19, and during that day's Battle of Lexington and Concord , he coordinated and led militia into the fight alongside William Heath as the British Army returned to Boston. When the enemy were returning from Concord, he was among the foremost in hanging upon their rear and assailing their flanks. During this fighting Warren

1680-408: The Lodge. Warren was appointed Grand Master of all Scottish Freemasonry in the 13 colonies by the Grand Lodge of Scotland. He was appointed Grand Master of the newly established Provincial Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in that same year. Upon his death, Joseph Webb became Acting Grand Master. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts has an award in his name for Masons who have served the fraternity,

1736-795: The Massacre, the second time in March 1775 while the town was occupied by army troops. Warren drafted the Suffolk Resolves , which were endorsed by the Continental Congress , to advocate resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts , which were otherwise known as the Intolerable Acts. He was appointed President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress , the highest position in the revolutionary government. In mid-April 1775, Warren and Benjamin Church were

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1792-485: The body of young Christopher Seider in February 1770, and was a member of the Boston committee that assembled a report on the following month's Boston Massacre . Earlier, in 1768, Royal officials tried to place his publishers Edes and Gill on trial for an incendiary newspaper essay Warren wrote under the pseudonym A True Patriot , but no local jury would indict them. In 1774, he authored the song "Free America," which

1848-404: The colonials, and it was also known that they would be taking a route through Lexington. Some unsupported stories argue that Warren received additional information from a highly placed informant (usually claiming it was from Margaret Kemble Gage , the wife of General Thomas Gage ), that the troops had orders to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock . However, there is little evidence of this as

1904-625: The colonies that eventually rebelled had established such committees. The colonial committees successfully organized common resistance to the Tea Act and even recruited physicians who would write that drinking tea would make Americans "weak, effeminate, and valetudinarian for life." These permanent committees performed the important planning necessary for the First Continental Congress , which convened in September 1774. The Second Congress created its own committee of correspondence to communicate

1960-568: The colonies. It was after this meeting that Quincy dubbed Harnett the "Samuel Adams of North Carolina." In December 1773, the North Carolina Committee of Correspondence formed in Wilmington. Although Harnett was absent, he was made chairman of the committee. Other members included John Harvey , Robert Howe , Richard Caswell , Edward Vail , John Ashe , Joseph Hewes , Samuel Johnston , and William Hooper . Among

2016-531: The committees sought to establish, through the writing of letters, an underground network of communication among Patriot leaders in the Thirteen Colonies . The committees were instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress , which convened in Philadelphia in September and October 1774. The function of the committees was to alert the residents of a given colony of the actions taken by

2072-907: The committees, though only four were regularly elected to all of them: Thomas Barclay , John Cox Jr., John Dickinson , and Joseph Reed . In early March 1773, Dabney Carr proposed the formation of a permanent Committee of Correspondence before the Virginia House of Burgesses . Virginia's own committee was formed on March 12, 1773. Its members were Peyton Randolph , Robert Carter Nicholas , Richard Bland , Richard Henry Lee , Benjamin Harrison , Edmund Pendleton , Patrick Henry , Dudley Digges , Dabney Carr , Archibald Cary , and Thomas Jefferson . By July 1773, Rhode Island , Connecticut , New Hampshire , and South Carolina had also formed committees. With Pennsylvania's action in May 1774, all of

2128-700: The country, or humanity with distinction. It is the second-highest honor conferred by the Grand Lodge, surpassed by only the Henry Price medal. The Henry Price medal is usually awarded to those who served with distinction in the Grand Lodge, while the Joseph Warren medal may be conferred upon any Mason within the Grand jurisdiction. Warren Lodge No. 32 of the Grand Lodge of New York is a historic Masonic lodge that meets in Schultzville, New York . It

2184-477: The cultivation of flax and the raising of sheep for wool. The committees helped organize local militia in the hundreds and later in the counties and all of Delaware. With their encouragement, the Delaware Assembly elected delegates to Continental Congress favorable to independence. In November 1772 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay , Samuel Adams , Joseph Warren , and Mercy Otis Warren formed

2240-627: The customs service. During the Stamp Act crisis the following year, the Province of New York formed a committee to urge common resistance among its neighbors to the new taxes. The Province of Massachusetts Bay 's correspondents responded by urging other colonies to send delegates to the Stamp Act Congress that fall. The resulting committees disbanded after the crisis was over. Pro- revolutionary Patriot leaders in Boston, believing they were confronting increasingly hostile threats by

2296-433: The demand for independence. The correspondence committees exchanged information with others in Boston, Philadelphia , and elsewhere. Their leadership was often drawn upon to provide Delaware with executive leaders. The committees of inspection used publicity as weapons to suppress disaffection and encourage patriotism. With imports from Britain cut off, the committees sought to make America self-sufficient, so they encouraged

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2352-520: The early stages of the battle, Warren repeatedly stated that "These fellows say we won't fight! By Heaven, I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood!" Defending the Patriot redoubt against two failed attacks by British troops, he kept firing his gun until running out of ammunition and was killed in action during the third and final assault by British gunfire. The man who killed him was possibly Lieutenant Lord Rawdon , who personally recognized him, or by

2408-411: The heaviest fighting would be; Putnam responded by pointing to Breed's Hill . Warren subsequently volunteered to join the militia at the rank of private against the wishes of both Putnam and Colonel William Prescott , both of whom unsuccessfully requested that he serve as their commander instead. Warren declined their request due the fact that Putnam and Prescott held more military experience. During

2464-529: The last to form a committee of correspondence, the Province of Pennsylvania did so at a meeting in Philadelphia on May 20, 1774. In a compromise between the more radical and more conservative factions of political activists, the committee was formed by combining the lists each faction proposed. That committee of 19 diversified and grew to 43, then to 66, and finally to two different groups of 100 between May 1774 and its dissolution in September 1776. Ultimately, 160 men from Pennsylvania participated in one or more of

2520-444: The political situation had deteriorated. There was concern about the courts. Massachusetts' young and ardent Boston patriot, Josiah Quincy Jr. , visited North Carolina for five days. He spent the night of March 26, 1773, at Cornelius Harnett 's home near Wilmington, North Carolina . The two discussed and drew up plans for a Committee of Correspondence. The committee's purpose: communicate circumstances and revolutionary sentiment among

2576-545: The rebel forces. Warren has been memorialized in the naming of many towns, counties, streets, and other locations in the United States, by statues, and in numerous other ways. Joseph Warren was born in Roxbury , Province of Massachusetts Bay , to Joseph and Mary (née Stevens) Warren. His father was a respected farmer who died in October 1755 when he fell off a ladder while gathering fruit in his orchard. After attending

2632-548: The spit, leading Captain Thompson to order her run aground on the sand. As the ship took heavy damage from the wind and waves, at about three in the morning on the 30th pilot Flavel and nine others took a small boat to Astoria. Reaching the harbor, they found another boat and crew to go back out to General Warren 's location, but when they reached the sandbar again the ship had been completely destroyed with all on board lost. Joseph Warren Warren had been commissioned

2688-458: The troops apparently had no such orders. Regardless, Warren learned there was some British expedition likely to begin that night, and so sent William Dawes and Paul Revere on their famous "midnight rides" to warn Hancock and Adams in Lexington. (There is growing consensus in new scholarship that Mrs. Gage never did conspire against the British and that Warren needed no informant to deduce that

2744-485: The two top members of the Committee of Correspondence left in Boston. On the afternoon of April 18, the British troops in the town mobilized for a long-planned raid on the nearby town of Concord, and already before nightfall word of mouth had spread knowledge of the mobilization widely within Boston. It had been known to rebel leadership for weeks that General Gage in Boston had plans to destroy munitions stored in Concord by

2800-459: Was adopted in a meeting of the Committee on May 31. On July 4, 1774, a resolution was approved to appoint five delegates contingent upon their confirmation by the freeholders of the City and County of New York, and to request that the other counties also send delegates. Isaac Low, John Alsop, James Duane , Philip Livingston , and John Jay were then appointed, and the public of the City and County

2856-514: Was engaged to Mercy Scollay. While practicing medicine and surgery in Boston , he became involved in politics, associating with John Hancock , Samuel Adams , and other leaders of the broad movement labeled Sons of Liberty . He was one of the leaders of Patriot activities during the Liberty Affair and facilitated an agreement with Hancock and government customs officials prior to the Boston demonstrations. Warren conducted an autopsy on

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2912-594: Was exhumed again ten months after his death by his brothers and Paul Revere , who identified the remains by an artificial tooth Warren had installed in his jaw. His body was interred in the Granary Burying Ground . In 1825, it was exhumed and reinterred in St. Paul's Church in Boston before being moved one final time in 1855 to his family's vault in Forest Hills Cemetery . General Gage

2968-453: Was founded in 1807 and named in memory of Joseph Warren. Walter Coy portrayed Warren in the 1957 film Johnny Tremain . Warren also appeared in episodes 5 and 9 of the 2002 animated television show Liberty's Kids . Ryan Eggold was cast as Warren in the 2015 miniseries Sons of Liberty . Warren is featured in the song "Wildfire" by the band Mandolin Orange (renamed Watchhouse ) on their 2016 album Blindfaller . Joseph Warren

3024-410: Was invited to attend City Hall and approve the appointments on July 7. This caused friction with the more radical Sons of Liberty , known as the Committee of Mechanics faction, who held a meeting in the fields on July 6. Three counties, Westchester , Duchess , and Albany acquiesced to the five delegates, while three counties, Kings , Suffolk , and Orange , sent delegates of their own. By 1773,

3080-487: Was nearly killed, a musket ball striking part of his wig. When his mother saw him after the battle and heard of his escape, she entreated him with tears again not to risk life so precious. "Wherever danger is, dear mother," he answered, "there will your son be. Now is no time for one of America's children to shrink from the most hazardous duty; I will either set my country free, or shed my last drop of blood to make her so." He then turned to recruiting and organizing soldiers for

3136-444: Was published in colonial newspapers. The poem was set to a traditional British tune, " The British Grenadiers ." Warren owned at least one enslaved person. This unnamed man, formerly held by Joshua Green, helped Warren with his medical practice. As Boston's conflict with the royal government came to a head in 1773–1775, Warren was appointed to the Boston Committee of Correspondence . He twice delivered orations in commemoration of

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