1. Joseph Warren, a Founding Father of the United States, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures in the Patriot movement in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
Joseph Warren participated in the Battles of Lexington and Concord the following day, the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
Rather than exercise his rank, Joseph 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.
Joseph 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 Warren.
Joseph Warren died in 1773, leaving him with four children: Elizabeth, Joseph, Mary, and Richard.
Joseph Warren 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.
Joseph 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.
Joseph Warren was appointed President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, the highest position in the revolutionary government.
Unsupported stories argue that Joseph Warren received additional information from a highly placed informant, that the troops had orders to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
Regardless, Joseph 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.
Joseph 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.
Joseph Warren declined their request due the fact that Putnam and Prescott held more military experience.
Joseph Warren's body was interred in the Granary Burying Ground.
General Gage is rumored to have said that Joseph Warren's death was equal to the death of 500 ordinary colonials.
Joseph Warren continued to look after them, gathering support for their education from John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benedict Arnold, and even the Continental Congress.
In 1840, the first Joseph Warren School was built on Salem Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts near Bunker Hill.
Joseph Warren joined the Freemasons, being initiated in the St Andrew's Lodge, and later became Past Provincial Grand Master of Massachusetts.
Joseph Warren was appointed Grand Master of all Scottish Freemasonry in the 13 colonies by the Grand Lodge of Scotland.
Joseph Warren was appointed Grand Master of the newly established Provincial Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in that same year.
Joseph Warren Lodge No 32 of the Grand Lodge of New York is a historic Masonic lodge that meets in Schultzville, New York.
Joseph Warren appeared in episodes 5 and 9 of the 2002 animated television show Liberty's Kids.
Joseph Warren is featured in the song "Wildfire" by the band Mandolin Orange on their 2016 album Blindfaller.