Dr. Joseph Warren (1741 – 1775) played a leading role in Patriot organizations in Boston at the beginning of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. He enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes to spread the alarm that the British were moving to Concord and arrest rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Warren was at the Battles of Lexington and Concord the following day.
Warren was commissioned a major general in the colony’s militia before the Battle of Bunker Hill. Instead, he participated in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed when British troops stormed Breed’s Hill.
Warren’s death was immortalized in John Trumbull’s painting, “The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775,” and he was memorialized in the name of many towns, counties, streets, and other locations in the United States, including Warren County, NY (although Warrensburg is named for James Warren, an early settler).
Dr. Joseph Warren (1741 – 1775) played a leading role in Patriot organizations in Boston at the beginning of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. He enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes to spread the alarm that the Britishwere moving to Concord and arrest rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Warren was at the Battles of Lexington and Concord the following day.
Warren was commissioned a major general in the colony’s militia before the Battle of Bunker Hill. Instead, he participated in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed when British troops stormed Breed’s Hill. Warren’s death was immortalized in John Trumbull’s painting, “The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775,” and he was memorialized in the name of many towns, counties, streets, and other locations in the United States, including Warren County, NY (although Warrensburg is named for James Warren, an early settler).
The Fort Plain Museum has announced “The Life and Legacy of Dr. Joseph Warren,” a lecture on Warren County’s namesake set for Thursday, August 5th, at the Fort William Henry Hotel Conference Center in the Village of Lake George, Warren County.
The program will be led by Christian Di Spigna, the country‘s leading authority on Dr. Warren and author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero (Crown, 2018).
A Brooklyn native, Christian Di Spigna is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in history from Columbia University. He is president of the newly formed Dr. Joseph Warren Foundation, dedicated to promoting Warren’s contributions to the country’s founding. Di Spigna speaks throughout the country on Dr. Warren. Copies of Founding Martyr will be available to purchase and have signed by the author.
This program will begin at 7 pm and is free and open to the public.
Portrait of Dr. Joseph Warren.
An interesting footnote in the annals of history is that Dr. Warren was the head of
the Commission in Massachusetts that Benedict Arnold appealed to when he wanted
to go take the cannons from the British at their Fort Ticonderoga. The commission OK’d his idea, gave him money and off he went to “take the fort”. However, there were others thinking similar thoughts as a Commission from Connecticut appointed
Ethan Allen in the part of the country which is now ( not then) Vermont to go to
Ticonderoga to do the same thing. E.A. and B.A. met – I believe – in several places… one of them on the main street of Castleton, Vt…. and Ethan Allen told B.A that he,
and his “boys” were going to be the ones to take the fort…which they shortly thereafter
did, although, Benedict Arnold was along for the ride and was there when the fort was
taken over in 1775. This is not a well known part of Dr. Warren’s story, but, I believe
his connection to the taking of Fort Ti .. resulting in the following trip with the cannons to Boston should be considered a part of his legacy.