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Appendix to Life and Times of Joseph warm by Richard Frothingham. This livervox recording
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is in the public domain. One the Suffolk Resolves. The following document is
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copied from the Essex Gazette of the twentieth of September seventeen seventy four. At
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a meeting of the delegates of every town and district in the Country of Suffolk
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on Tuesday the sixth September, at the house of mister Richard Woodward of Dedham,
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and by adjournment at the house of mister Daniel Vowes of Milton on Friday
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the ninth instant, Joseph Palmer Esquire being chosen moderator and William Thompson Esquire Clerk.
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A committee was chosen to bring in a report to the convention, and
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the following, being several times read and put paragraph by paragraph, was unanimously
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voted viz. Whereas the power, but not the justice, the vengeance but
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not the wisdom of Great Britain, which of old persecuted, scourged, and
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exiled our fugitive parents from their native shores, now pursues us their guiltless children
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with unrelenting severity, and whereas this then savage and uncultivated desert was purchased by
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the toil and treasure, or acquired by the valor and blood of those are
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venerable progenitors who bequeathed to us the dear bought inheritance, who consigned it to
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our care and protection. The most sacred obligations are upon us to transmit the
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glorious purchase, unfettered by power, unclogged with shackles, to our innocent and
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beloved offspring. On the fortitude, on the wisdom, and on the exertions
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of this important day is suspended the fate of this new world and of unborn
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millions. If a boundless extent of continent swarming with millions will tamely submit to
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live, move, and have their being at the arbitrary will of a licentious
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minister, they basely yield to voluntary slavery, and future generations shall load their
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memories with incessant execrations. On the other hand, if we arrest the hand
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which would ransack our pockets, if we disarm the parricide who points the dagger
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to our bosoms, if we nobly defeat that fatal edict which proclaims a power
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to frame laws for us in all cases whatsoever, thereby entailing the endless and
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numberless curses of slavery upon us, our heirs and their heirs forever. If
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we successfully resist that unparalleled usurpation of unconstitutional power. Whereby our capital is robbed
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of the means of life, Whereby the streets of Boston are thronged with military
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executioners, whereby our coasts are lined and harbors crowded with ships of war.
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Whereby the charter of the Colony, that sacred barrier against the encroachments of tyranny,
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is mutilated, in an effect annihilated. Whereby a murderous law is framed
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to shelter villains from the hands of justice. Whereby that unalienable and inestimable inheritance
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which we derived from nature, the Constitution of Britain, which was covenated to
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us in the Charter of the Province, is totally wrecked, annulled, and
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vacated. Posterity will acknowledge that virtue which preserve them free and happy. And
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while we enjoy the rewards and blessings of the faithful, the torrent of Panegyric
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will roll down our reputations to that latest period, when the streams of time
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shall be absorbed in the abyss of eternity. Therefore we have resolved, and
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do resolve, One, that whereas his Majesty George the third is the rightful
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successor to the throne of Great Britain and justly entitled to the allegiance of the
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British realm, and agreeable to compact of the English colonies in America, Therefore
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we, the errors and successors of the first planters of this colony, do
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cheerfully acknowledge the said George the Third to be our rightful sovereign, And that
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said covenant is the tenure and claim on which are founded are allegiance and submission.
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Two That it is an indispensable duty which we owe to God, our
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Country, ourselves, and posterity, by all lawful ways and means in our
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power, to maintain, defend, and preserve those civil and religious rights and
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liberties for which many of our fathers fought, bled and died, and to
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hand them down entire to future generations. Three That the late Aca of the
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British Parliament for blocking up the harbor of Boston and for altering the established form
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of government in this colony, and for screening the most flagitious violators of the
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laws of the Province from a legal trial. Are the gross infractions of those
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rights to which we are justly entitled by the laws of nature, the British
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Constitution, and the Charter of the Province. Four That no obedience is due
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from this Province to either or any part of the acts above mentioned, but
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that they may be rejected as the attempts of a wicked administration to enslave America.
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Five That so long as the justices of our superior Courts of jutercature,
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courts of a size and general goal delivery, and inferior courts of common pleas
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in this country are appointed or hold their places by any other tenure than that
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which the Charter and the laws of the Province direct, they must be considered
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as under unique influence, and are therefore unconstitutional officers, and as such no
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regard ought to be paid to them by the people of this country. Six
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That if the justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize,
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et cetera, justices of the Court of Common Pleas, or of the General
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Sessions of the Peace, shall set and act during their present unqualified state this
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country will support and bear harmless all sheriffs and their deputies, constables, jurors,
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and other officers who shall refuse to carry into execution the orders of said
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courts, and as far as is possible, to prevent the inconveniences that must
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attend the suspension of the courts of justice, we do earnestly recommend it to
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all creditors to exercise all reasonable and generous forbearance to their debtors, and to
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all debtors to discharge their just debts with all possible speed. And if any
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disputes concerning debts or trespasses should arise which cannot be settled by the parties,
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we recommend it to them to submit all such causes to arbitration. And if
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the parties, or either of them, shall refuse so to do, they
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ought to be considered as cooperating with the enemies of this country. Seven,
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that it be recommended to the collectors of taxes, constables and all other officers
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who have public monies in their hands to retain the same, and not to
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make any payment thereof to the province or county treasurers until the civil government of
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the province is placed upon a constitutional foundation, or until it shall otherwise be
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ordered by the proposed Provincial Congress. Eight That the persons who have accepted seats
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at the Council Board by virtual of amandamus from the King, in conformity to
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the late Act of the British Parliament entitled and Act for Regulating the Government of
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the Massachusetts Bay, have acted in direct violation of the duty they owe to
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their country, and have thereby given great and just offense to this people.
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Therefore resolved that this country do recommend it to all persons who have so highly
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offended by accepting said department, and have not already publicly resigned their seats at
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the Council Board, to make public resignations of their places at said Board on
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or before the twentieth day of this instant September. And that all persons neglecting
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so to do, shall from and after that day be considered by this County
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as obstinate and incorrigible enemies to this colony. Nine. That the fortifications begun
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and now carrying upon Boston Neck are justly alarming to this county, and give
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us reason to apprehend some hostile intention against that town. More especially as the
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Commander in Chief has in a very extraordinary manner removed the powder from the magazine
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at Charlestown, and has also forbidden the keeper of the magazine at Boston to
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deliver out to the owners of the powder which they lodged in said magazine.
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Ten That the late Act of Parliament for establishing the Roman Catholic religion and the
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French laws in that extensive country now called Canada is dangerous in an extreme degree
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to the Protestant religion and to the civil rights and liberties of all America.
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And therefore, as men and Protestant Christians, we are indispensably obliged to take
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all proper measures for our security. Eleven That, whereas our enemies have flattered
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themselves, that they shall make an easy prey of this numerous brave and hardy
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people, from an apprehension that they are unacquainted with military discipline, We therefore,
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for the honor, defense and security of this country and province advise,
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as it has been recommended, to take away all commissions from the officers of
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the militia, that those who now hold commissions or such other persons be elected
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in each town as officers in the militia as shall be judged of sufficient capacity
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for that purpose, and who have evidenced themselves the inflexible friends to the rights
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of the people. And that the inhabitants of those towns and districts who are
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qualified, do use their utmost diligence to acquaint themselves with the art of war
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as soon as possible, and do for that purpose appear under arms at least
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once every week. Twelve That during the present hostile appearances on the part of
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Great Britain, notwithstanding the many insults and oppressions which we must sensibly resent,
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yet nevertheless, from our affection to His Majesty, which we have at all
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times evidenced, we are determined to act merely upon the defensive, so long
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as such conduct may be vindicated by reason and the principles of self preservation.
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But no longer Thirteen That, as we understand, it has been in contemplation
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to apprehend sundry persons of this county who have rendered themselves conspicuous in contending for
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the violated rights and liberties of their countrymen. We do recommend that, should
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such an audacious measure be put in practice, to seize and keep in safe
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custody every servant of the present tyrannical and unconstitutional government throughout the county and province,
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until the persons so apprehended be liberated from the hands of our adversaries and
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restored safe and uninjured to their respective friends and families. Fourteen that our rights
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are fully restored to us, we will to the utmost of our power,
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and recommend the same to the other counties, withhold all commercial intercourse with Great
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Britain, Ireland and the West Indies, and abstain from the consumption of British
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merchandise and manufactures, and especially of East India tees and peace goods, with
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such additions, alterations and exceptions only as the Grand Congress of the Colonies may
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agree to. Fifteen That under our present circumstances, it is incumbent on us
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to encourage arts and manufactures amongst us by all means in our power, And
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that Joseph Palmer, Esquire of Braintree, Mister Ebenezer Door of Roxbury, mister
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James Boyce and mister Edward Preston of Milton, and mister Nathaniel Guild of Walpole,
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b and hereby are appointed a committee to consider the best ways and means
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to remote and establish the same, and report to this Convention as soon as
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may be sixteen, that the exigencies of our public affairs demand that a Provincial
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Congress be called to concert such measures as may be adopted and vigorously executed by
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the whole people. And we do recommend it to several towns in this county
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to choose members for such a Provincial Congress, to beholden at Conquered on the
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second Tuesday of October next ensuing seventeen. That this County, confiding in the
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wisdom and integrity of the Continental Congress now sitting at Philadelphia, will pay all
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due respect and submission to such measures as may be recommended by them to the
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colonies for the restoration and establishment of our just rights, civil and religious,
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and for renewing that harmony and union between Great Britain and the Colonies so earnestly
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wished for by all good men. Eighteen. Whereas the universal uneasiness which prevails
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among all orders of men, arising from the wicked and oppressive measures of the
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present administration, may influence some unthinking persons to commit outrage upon private property,
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we would hardly recommend to all persons of this community not to engage in any
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routes, riots, or licentious attacks upon the properties of any person whatsoever,
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as being subversive of all order and government, but by a steady, manly,
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uniform and persevering opposition, to convince our enemies that, in a contest
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so important, in a cause so solemn, our conduct shall be such as
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to merit the approbation of the wise and the admiration of the brave and free
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of every age and of every country. Nineteen that should our enemies, by
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any sudden maneuvers render it necessary for us to ask the aid and assistance of
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our brethren in the country, some one of the committee of correspondents or a
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selectmen of such town or the town adjoining where such hostilities shall commence or shall
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be expected to commence, shall dispatch couriers with written messages to the selectmen or
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committees of correspondents of the several towns in the vicinity, with a written account
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of such matter, who shall dispatch others to committees or selectmen more remote till
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proper and sufficient assistants be obtained, And that the expense of said couriers be
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defrayed by the County until it shall be otherwise ordered by the Provincial Congress voted
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that Joseph Warren Esquire and Doctor Benjamin Church of Boston, Deacon Joseph Palmer and
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Colonel Ebenezer Thayer of Braintree, Captain Lemuel Robinson, William Holden Esquire and Captain
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John Homans of Dorchesterilliam Heath of Roxbury, Colonel William Taylor and Doctor Samuel Gardner
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of Milton, Isaac Gardner Esquire, Captain Benjamin White and Captain Thomas Aspinwall of
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Brookline, Nathaniel Sumner Esquire, and mister Richard Woodward of Dedham be a committee
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to wait on his Excellency the Governor, to inform him that this county are
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alarmed at the fortifications making on Boston Neck, and to remonstrate against the same
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and the repeated insults offered by the soldiery to persons passing and repassing into that
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town, and to confer with him upon those subjects. Attest William Thompson Clerk.
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Two eulogies on Warren. The New England Chronicle of the twenty second of
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June seventeen seventy five contained a brief account on the Battle of Bunker Hill,
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but did not mention the death of Warren. The next issue, on the
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twenty ninth, contained the following. On Saturday, the seventeenth of June seventeen
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seventy five, fell in battle in the American Army, Major General Joseph Warren,
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a gentleman worthy that office to which the day before, by the free
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votes of his countrymen, he was honorably elected as a friend to Britain.
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He wished the mutual happiness of her in America, and, conscious their interests
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were inseparable, he strenuously opposed the unjust claims of a venal Parliament who attempted
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to ruin the latter by depriving them of their rights sacred by Charter. Twice
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to crowded audiences, he wailed the fate of those massacred March fifth, seventeen
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seventy and twice received the thanks of his fellow citizens. Therefore, to enumerate
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his virtues would be a subject worthy of an abler pen. Sufficient for us,
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we add, he, by them has laid the foundation of a fame
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that shall not be impaired by the tooth of time. Over his grave,
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his mourning of countrymen may justly say, here lies the body of a worthy
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man, whose name shall live and fill the world with wonder Although his ashes
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scarcely fill an urn, his virtues shall remain when we have left the stage.
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His praises shall be spoke for many an age to come. The Pennsylvania
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Magazine for June seventeen seventy five, printed in Philadelphia, has an eulogium on
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Warren, which is said to have been supplied by a gentleman of that city.
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It was copied into the Boston Gazette. The following is an extract.
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It is impossible to do justice to his full orbed character. He filled each
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of the numerous departments of life that were assigned to him so well that he
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seemed born for no other. He had displayed, in the course of three
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and thirty years, all the talents and virtues of the man, the patriot,
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the senator, and the hero. He was unlike the Spartan general,
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only in not expiring in the arms of victory. But even in this unfortunate
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event, he has served his country. For he has taught the sons of
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freedom in America that the laurel may be engrafted upon the Cyprus, and that
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true glory may be acquired not only in the arms of victory, but in
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the arms of death. The Pennsylvania packet of July third, seventeen seventy five
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had the following eulogium, which I copy from the Massachusetts Spy or American Oracle
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of Liberty on the twenty sixth of July seventeen seventy five, an elegy to
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the memory of Doctor Warren Warren, the learned, brave and good, amiable
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and esteemed in his private care, admired and applauded in his more public sphere.
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He was an eminent physician, a sincere and affectionate friend, and a
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faithful, undaunted assertor of his country's rights, in defense of which he nobly
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fell with a true magnanimity and heroism of soul, becoming the great cause in
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which he struggled, and which he did honor to the dignity of the station
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in which his country had a few days before placed him. He's gone.
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Great Warren's soul from Earth is fled. Great Warren's name is numbered with the
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dead, that breast where every patriot virtue glowed, that form, where nature
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every grace bestowed, that tongue which bade in Freedom's cause. Combine truth,
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learning, sense, and eloquence. Divine that healing hand which raised the drooping
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head, which led pale sickness from her languid bed, are now no more.
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All wrapped in sacred fire on Liberty's exalted shrine expire, while the great
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spirit which the whole informed glowed in the breast, and every feature warmed mounts
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missed the flame to its own native heaven, where angels plaudits to his deeds
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are given. Methinks I see the solemn pomp ascend. See every patriot shade
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his soul attend. Immortal Hampton leads the awful band, and near him Raleigh,
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Russell, Sidney stand with them, each Roman, every Greek whose name
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glows high recorded in the role of fame, round worn press and hail with
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glad applause this early victim in fair Freedom's cause. With generous hearts. The
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laurel crown they twine and round his brows. They bind the reas divine o
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glorious fate, which bids the gloomy grave frow wide the gates of triumph to
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the brave sure godlike warn on thy natal hour, some star propitious shed its
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brightest power by Nature's hand, with taste, with genius, formed thy generous
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breast, with every virtue warmed, thy mind, endowed with sense, thy
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form, with grace, and all thy virtues printed in thy face grave wisdom,
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mark THEE as his favorite child, and on thy youth indulgence. Science
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smiled well pleased, She led THEE to her sacred bower and to thy hands,
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consign'd her healing power. Still more to bless THEE soothing friendship, strove
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and bade THEE share in Adam's Hancock's love, with them united in great freedom.
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Cause Thou stoodest the brave assertor of her laws, while ever watchful for
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thy country's weal. No arts could warp, no dangers damp thy zeal,
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Thy grateful country to thy virtues, just to THEE committed each important trust.
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Call thee o'er all her counsels to preside and midst the storm, the helm
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of state to guide. Equal to all alike. In all thou shined the
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patriot, friend and counselor combined, Heaven saw thy virtues to perfection, sore
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till nature failed and earth could bear no more. Approving saw and burst the
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bonds of clay, which stage thy passage to the realms of day, and
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that in death might to thy fame conspire. Bade thee on freedom's glorious fear
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expire, Allow THEE once to mingle in the strife, that thou mightest give
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thy countries even thy life. Bade liberty and honor guard thy grave and countless
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thousands for thy mourners gave, and dare we then, thy sacred triumphs mourn
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or with the fear of grief, profane thy urn, illustrious shade, forgive
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our mingled woes, which not for THEE but for our country flows. We
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mourn her loss, We mourn her hero gone. We mourn thy patriot soul,
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Thy godlike virtues flown. But o from yon bright realms vouchsafe to bend
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on us thy looks and to our fate. Attend thy country's guardian angel,
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deign to prove and watch around us with thy wonted love. Still o'er our
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councils. May thy soul preside, Thy light direct us, and thy genius
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guide. Let thy great spirit glow in every breast, and be thy virtue
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on each heart impressed. So shalt thou not alone in Glory's stand, and
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other warns shall adorn our land. The following lines were printed on a broadside
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and are copied from the Historical Magazine for April eighteen sixty one. Lines sacred
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to the memory of Joseph Warren, who fell in the Battle at Charlestown,
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fighting gallantly for his country. Such their care for all the great whensoe'er they
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meet their fate, shades heroic throng around, pleased, tend the expiring ground,
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Please to mark the favored place where they end their glorious race round the
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turf or grassy sod palms with ewes, they learn to gad there by silent
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Luna's rays off the funeral dirge they raise so on some appointed hill heaven,
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last mandate to fulfill, when with blood they seal their cause, die to
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save their country's laws. Joyed at such a nameless sight, countless worthies quick
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alight, wrapped in soft celestial flames, stepping too sublimest strains. Thus,
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in solemn pomp they rove there admire a brother's love. As the mystic march
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goes round, all the neighboring vales resound. Thus, when Warren late was
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slain. Passing mourners heard them plain katos Hampton's Sydney's, Come ye Britain,
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Greece or Rome, Ye for justice? Who did plead? Ye for freedom?
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Who did bleed? Quit awhile thy lesion Land. Join in one harmonic
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band, Come in stall a hero knew who deserves to rank with you.
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Bring the laurel leaf along, Swell the chorus with conqueror song. Fix upon
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his head the crown, for he's worthy of renown. He for justice,
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boldly pled, he for freedom, nobly bled. Take him to our seats
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above there, proclaim his generous love. Tell how oft Earth's Senate's rung,
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charmed by his molefluous tongue. Tell how oft his patriot zeal strove to save
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the British weal midnight vigils, how he kept all his ease and interest,
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left greatly firm in virtue's cause, sworn to oppose tyrannic laws, Though his
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form divinely fair, though most graceful every air, though in healing great,
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his skill, though most kind, his constant will, though his social virtues
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great, though they shone from early date. Not with those the patriot flame
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must we now pretend to name. These are all beneath the strains. Due
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to Hero's spouting veins, northern blasts he had never feared, nor in princely
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guilt revered prostituted force. He scorned, Slavery, myrmidons he spurned, bravely,
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bent to meet the foe, dealing death in every blow, great in
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ruin. When he fell, proud to die, he cried, tis well,
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die, patriots. Now we sing, jointly touch the highest string,
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Jointly all your powers devote blow for them the highest note earth. Can nothing
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greater boast dying patriot is her most Heaven, can nothing greater know In where
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fires seraphic low worthy such of angels praise, such should have Divina slays.
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Fair America is blessed. Hence arose our welcome guest. She such suns shall
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never want, nor shall tyrants such ridaunt, scorching flames and fields of blood,
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all shall work the greatest good. Slavery clanks her chains in vain despots,
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there shall never reign. Yet fair liberty shall stand, Yet shall away
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that happy land. Yet her godlike sons shall rest of their birthrights still possessed.
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They the world throughout shall save They shall make the timid brave, though
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their present peace is marred, though their future struggle hard. Britain's sons degenerate,
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groan for their folly. Yet shall morn, grieve their ancient sires,
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look down, curse their measures, give a frown, swear the glory is
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transferred. Young America is preferred. Heavens fixed her ardent friend, She shall
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see a glorious end, long and bliss. Her sons shall reign till their
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native skies they gain join orchestras chant amen quite overwhelmed with swooning joy, so
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ecstatic such employ passing mourners, waking found neither shades nor faintest sound. Hear
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ye, sons of freedom here banish, Hence your every fear trust for once
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a prophecy. Know the period draweth nay b b. Providence, July twenty
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seventh, seventeen seventy five. Doctor Solomon Down sent the following lines in a
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letter addressed to his brother William Down and dated Providence, Rhode Island, August
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twelfth, seventeen seventy five, which are copied from the Historical Magazine for March
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eighteen sixty one. And is it so is Warren then no more alas too
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true. He's gone, My patriots, warrior's gone New Albion's genius cride,
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and he is gone, remurdered all around. Heartrending thought, how sunk my
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spirits when the baleful sound first shocked mine ear? But why bewall a death
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so glorious, which might rather in our breasts excite becoming envy. Yes,
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he fell a willing sacrifice in the great cause of human kind, his country's
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cause, which he had pled so well, heroic fortitude and honest zeal,
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Accipio's martial flame, a Cato's firmness, tullis eloquence, where all his own
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thus great in public life, nor less the milder virtues of his soul,
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philanthropy, his generous bosom, swayed beneficence marked well the steps he trod.
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View him in the sphere of his profession. See at the sick bedside,
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his anxious care, with countenance benign. See him stretch four his healing hand
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to yield the kind relief if medicines failed. His gentle accents and his soothing
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words revived the fainting heart. But silent now that tongue and cold, that
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hand so often employed in heavenly deeds like these, that tongue that moved at
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will, the attentive throng, that hand to dire distress, a cheerful aid.
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Warren, the Great, the Good is now no more. He's left
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this earth to hal those blessed abodes, where North shall vex not, and
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the virtuous rest Palatros. The following ode has been ascribed to Arthur Lye I
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copy from the American Museum, Volume five, seventeen ninety Ode to the memory
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of Doctor Joseph Warren, the celebrated orator, who was slain upon the heights
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of Charlestown fighting for the liberties of America on the seventeenth day of June seventeen
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seventy five. O great reverse of Tully's coward heart, Immortal Warren, you
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suffice to teach the orator may fill the warrior's part, and active souls be
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joined with fluent speech. Shall not the speaker, who alone could give immortal
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reviscience to the dead, change to a hero now forever live in fame's eternal
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role with those he led. Let North and Sandwich take the meaner shame of
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blustering words unknown to hardy deeds and callous God, superior merit, calm in
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grinning laughter, while his country bleeds, Boston's first sons in prostrate numbers,
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lay, and freedom tottered on destruction. Sprin Warren stepped forth to solemnize the
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day, and dared to speak what some scarce dared to think. Yet glorious
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honor more than one man's share. He and his latest, as in his
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earliest breath in camp or forum, equally could dare and seal his bold philippic
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with his death Lucius Section three Children of Warren. The four children of Warren,
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on the death of their mother, Evertswarren one seventy nine, were committed
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to the care of their maternal grandmother. Their names were Elizabeth, Joseph,
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Mary, and Richard. A name made illustrious was their only inheritance Spark's Life
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of Arnold one twenty six. Immediately after their father's death, the Masonic Fraternity
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contributed liberally to their necessities Moore's Masonic Memoir of Warren one eighteen. On the
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thirty first of January seventeen seventy seven, on the motion of Samuel Adams,
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Congress resolved that the eldest son should be educated at the expense of the United
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States, he says February one, seventeen seventy seven, in a letter to
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James Warren, I moved in Congress that the eldest son of our deceased friend,
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General Warren might be adopted by the continent and educated at the public expense.
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The motion was pleasing to all, and a committee was appointed to prepare
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a resolve. These things I would not have yet made public. About the
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month of April seventeen seventy eight, General Arnold, who made the acquaintance of
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Warren in Cambridge, was informed that the children had been entirely neglected by the
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state. When in a later dated July fifteenth, seventeen seventy eight, addressed
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to Miss Mercy Scully, the greater portion of which is printed Sparks Arnold one
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twenty seven, he contributed five hundred dollars for their support and expressed generous sentiments
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for their welfare. Warren was betrothed to this lady for a second wife Loring's
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Orators forty nine. In another letter addressed to doctor Townsend, dated August sixth,
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seventeen seventy eight, printed in the Life of John C. Warren I
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fifty six Arnold expresses similar sentiments. In the next year, there was additional
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correspondence on the care of the children. A letter addressed to Samuel Adams and
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John Hancock on the nineteenth of November seventeen seventy nine by Elbridge Jerry and James
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Lovell elicited the following Boston, December twentieth, seventeen seventy nine. Gentlemen.
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Since my last letter to you, I have had an opportunity of conversing with
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doctor John Warren, brother of our deceased friend, concerning the situation of his
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children. He tells me that the eldest son was, as early as that
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could be done, put under the the care and tuition of the reverend mister
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Payson of Chelsea, a gentleman whose qualifications for the instructing of youth I need
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not mention to you. The land still remains for them. The eldest daughter,
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a miss of about thirteen, is with the doctor, and he assures
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me that no gentleman's daughter in this town has more of the advantage of schools
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than she has at his expense. She learns music, dancing, writing and
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arithmetic, and the best needlework that is taught here the doctor, I dare
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say, takes good care of her morals. The two younger children, a
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boy of about seven years and a girl somewhat older, are in the family
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of John Scully. Esquire under the particular care of his daughter at her most
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earnest request. Otherwise, I suppose they would have been taken care of by
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their relations at Roxbury and educated as farmer's children usually are. Deserves the greatest
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praise for her attention to them. She is exceedingly well qualified for her charge,
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and her affection for their deceased father prompts her to exert her utmost to
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inculcate in the minds of these children those principles which may conduce to render them
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worthy of the relation they stood in to him. General Arnold has assisted by
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generously ordering five hundred dollars towards their support. This I was informed of when
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I was last in Philadelphia. I called on him and thanked him for his
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kindness to them. Whether he has done more for them, since I cannot
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say. Probably he originated the subscription you have mentioned to me. I have
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omitted to tell you that two years ago I was in this town and made
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a visit to the present General Warren at Plymouth. His lady was very solicitous
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that the eldest daughter should spend the winter with her, and desired me to
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prepare to miss I did so, but I could not prevail upon her.
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She said that Missus Miller, Mister Charles Miller's lady at whose house she then
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was, did not incline to part with her, and that it would be
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a breach of good manners and ungrateful for her to leave Missus Miller against her
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inclination. She very prettily expressed her obligations to both those ladies, and thus
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prevented my saying anymore. I am very certain it was Missus Warren's intention to
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give her board an education. You know the distinguished accomplishments of that lady.
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I think it does not appear that Betsy has been altogether friendless and deserted,
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or that the others are in danger of suffering irreparably on account of their education.
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Yet, as I am very desirous that they should have the greatest advantage
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in their growth into life, I shall, among other friends, think myself
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much obliged to any gentleman who, from pure and unmixed motives shall add to
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those which they now enjoy. I have not yet had the honor of an
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interview with mister since I sent him the letter which he wrote to us jointly
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and requested his sentiments thereon. Adieu, my dear friends, and believe me
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to be respectfully yours, Samuel Adams, Honorable Elbridge, Jerry, and James
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Lovell esquires. General Arnold applied to Congress for a provision to support the children
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on the first of July seventeen eighty is the following record. On motion of
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mister Livingstone, seconded by mister Adams, Congress came to the following resolutions.
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Whereas Congress have thought proper to erect a monument to the memory of Major General
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Warren, in consideration of his distinguished merit and bravery, and to make provision
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for the education of his eldest son, And whereas it appears no adequate provision
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can be made out of his private fortune for the education and maintenance of his
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three younger children, Therefore resolved that it be recommended to the Executive of Massachusetts
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Bay to make provision for the maintenance and education of the said three children of
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the late Major General Warren. Resolve that Congress will defray the expense thereof to
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the amount of the half pay of a major General, to commence at the
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time of his death, and continue until the youngest of the said children shall
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be of age. General Warren Sparks says life of Arnold one twenty eight,
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had been dead five years, and the annual amount of half pay was somewhat
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more than thirteen hundred dollars, making the sum do nearly seven thousand dollars besides
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the future stipend. In the congratulatory letter which Arnold wrote to Miss Skull on
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this event, only six weeks before the consummation of his treachery, he reiterated
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his ardent concern for the welfare of the children. Doctor John Warren, the
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general's youngest brother, on his marriage, took the children to his home,
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Everetts Warren one seventy nine. Both the daughters were distinguished by amiable qualities and
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personal beauty, and were highly accomplished. Elizabeth, born in seventeen sixty five,
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became in seventeen eighty five, the wife of General Arnold. Wells died
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without issue in Boston July twenty sixth, eighteen o four, at thirty nine
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years of age and was buried from her residence in School Street. Joseph was
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born in seventeen sixty eight, graduated at Harvard College in seventeen eighty six,
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was an officer at the Castle, and died while on a visit to Foxborough
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at the house of his uncle Evanezer. The following is the inscription on his
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tombstone, Sacred to the memory of Joseph Warren, son of the late Major
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General Joseph Warren, who died suddenly April second, seventeen ninety, aged twenty
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two be Ye also ready. Mary was twice married. Her first husband was
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mister Lyman of Northampton. She lost all her children by this marriage Missus pains
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letter. Her second husband was Judge Richard E. Newcombe of Greenfield, mass
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who, in a letter dated April fourteenth, eighteen forty three, says,
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my late wife Mary was the youngest and only surviving child of the late General
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j Warren. She died on February seventh, eighteen twenty six, leaving an
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only child, a son who bears the name of his grandfather, Joseph Warren.
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He is an attorney at law and now lives at Springfield in this state,
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with the exception of his two children, is the only descendant in a
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direct line of him who fell on Bunker Hill. Both of these children are
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eighteen sixty five living. One is the wife of doctor Buckminster Brown and resides
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in Boston. Richard, according to the letter of s Adams, born about
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seventeen seventy two, was engaged in a mercantile business in Alexandria Missus Payne's letter
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in Life of J. C. Warren I twenty four, returned to Boston
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and died in the family of his uncle, doctor John Warren, at the
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age of twenty one. Four Relics of Warren. I've seen several interesting relics
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of Warren which were procured and preserved by the late doctor John C. Warren.
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One is the manuscript of the Oration, which he delivered on the sixth
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of March seventeen seventy five. It is in a black cover and is in
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a large round handwriting. It has few interlineations. Another relic is a small
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psalm book which a British soldier said that he took out of Warren's pocket,
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and has such sold it to doctor Samuel Wilton of London, who sent it
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to doctor William Gordon, with the requests that it should be delivered to Warren's
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relatives. It was printed at Geneva in fifteen fifty nine. On the inside
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cover is written North America, taken at e Battle of Bunker Hill, June
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seventeenth, seventy seventy five. Out of doctor Warren's pocket. The name Thomas
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Knight is written at the end of the volume. These relics with a sword
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which was owned by Warren, are in the possession of doctor J. Mason
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Warren, who has also Warren's day Book, containing entries by him from May
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fourth, seventeen seventy four to April seventeenth, seventeen seventy five. I have
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mentioned on page one, sixty seven that there are fragments of a prior day
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book. These books show Warren's professional connection with the families of the popular leaders.
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At the celebration of June seventeenth, eighteen thirty six in Charlestown, Honourable
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A. H. Everett exhibited the bullet which he regarded as the one that
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killed Warren. C. Loring's one hundred Boston Orators, page sixty seven.
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The Historical Magazine of December eighteen fifty seven has an interesting paper by mister Loring
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on the Relics of Warren Five Monuments to Warren. The Massachusetts House of Representatives
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on the fourth of April seventeen seventy six, in giving the Lodge of Freemason's
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leave to bury the remains of Warren, reserved a right to erect a monument
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to his memory, and on the twelfth of February eighteen eighteen, it ordered
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a committe to consider the expediency of building a monument of American marble, but
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the right remains unexercised. The Continental Congress, on the thirty first of January
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seventeen seventy seven, on the motion of Samuel Adams, appointed Messrs Rush Hayward,
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Paige, and s Adams a committee to consider what honours are due to
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the memory of General Warren, who submitted their report on the eighth of April
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seventeen seventy seven, when Congress voted that a monument be erected to the memory
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of General Warren in the town of Boston, with the following inscription in honor
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of Joseph Warren, Major General of Massachusetts Bay. He devoted his life to
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the liberties of his country, and in bravely defending them, fell an early
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victim in the Battle of Bunker Hill June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five. The
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Congress of the United States, as an acknowledgment of his services and distinguished merit,
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have erected this monument to his memory, though it stands in the Journals
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of Congress that a monument was erected see the vote on page five forty four,
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and in eighteen fifty a memorial was presented in the Senate for an appropriation
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for a statue. The vote remains like a similar one in relation to Washington,
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without effect. The honor of raising a memorial to Warren on the spot
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where he fell belongs to King Solomon's Lodge of Masons of Charlestown. It was
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chartered by the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, which was established by Warren. The charter
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was not granted until the sixth of September seventeen eighty three Moore's Memoir one twenty
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two. This Lodge, November eleventh, seventeen ninety four appointed a committee to
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erect such a monument in mister Russell's pasture, which was on what is now
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called Breed's Hill, as would do honor to the Lodge in memory of their
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late brother M. W. Joseph Warren, and drew upon the treasury for
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the expense. Honorable James Russell gave the land for this purpose. The committee
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caused to be erected a Tuscan pillar eighteen feet in height, built of wood,
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placed on a brick pedestal eight feet square and ten feet high. On
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the top was a guilt urn, on which, with Masonic emblems were the
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words j W. The south side of the pedestal contained this inscription, erected
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a d. Seventeen ninety four by King Solomon's Lodge of Freemasons, constituted in
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Charlestown seventeen eighty three in memory of Major General Joseph Warren and his associates who
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were slain on this memorable spot June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five. None but
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they who set a just value upon the blessings of liberty are worthy to enjoy
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her. In vain. We toiled in vain, we fought, we bled
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in vain. If you are offspring, want Valor to repel the assaults of
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her invaders. Charlestown Settled sixteen twenty eight, Burnt seventeen seventy five, rebuilt
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seventeen seventy six. The enclosed land was given by Honorable James Russell. This
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monument costs about one thousand dollars. It was dedicated on the second of December
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seventeen ninety four, when a procession consisting of the Masonic Fraternity, the municipal
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authorities, revolutionary officers, children of the schools and citizens was formed at Warren
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Hall and walked in solemn silence to the hill. When a circle was formed
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round the pillar and John Solly delivered an address in which he termed the Hill
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Mount. Warren session returned to Warren Hall, where a eulogy was pronounced by
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doctor Josiah Bartlett. The memorial reflected great credit on King Solomon's Lodge. This
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monument stood on the ground which is now Conquered Street, a few rods from
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the present structure, and was kept in repair by King Solomon's Lodge until eighteen
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twenty five, when it was presented with the land to the Bunker Hill Monument
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Association. King Solomon's Lodge in eighteen forty five procured an exact model of the
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pillar, one of the finest Italian marble which was executed by one of the
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best American artists and was placed within the obelisk. This was dedicated with imposing
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Masonic ceremonial. On this occasion. One of the speakers was the Venerable John
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Solly, who presented the working tools to the Grand Master. The model bears
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the following inscription. This is an exact model of the first monument erected on
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Bunker Hill, which, with the land on which it stood, was given
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a d. Eighteen twenty five by King Solomon's Lodge of this town to the
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Bunker Hill Monument Association that they might erect upon its site a more imposing structure.
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The Association, and fulfillment of a pledge at that time given, have
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allowed within their imperishable obelisk this model to be inserted with appropriate ceremonies by King
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Solomon's Lodge June twenty fourth, a d. Eighteen forty five. At a
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meeting of the Bunker Hill Monument Association on first July eighteen fifty, Colonel Thomas
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Handasid Perkins tendered one thousand dollars towards a monument in honor of Warren. When
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a committee decided upon a statue which it was first designed to place in Faniel
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Hall, other subscriptions having been made, a statue was executed by Henry Dexter,
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a native artist, and on its completion it was determined to place it
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on the battlefield. The heirs of John C. Warren now contributed the splendid
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pedestal of verd Antique on which the statue stands, and a building was built
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for its reception. The statue was seven feet high of the best Italian marble,
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and weighed in the block about seven tons. It is draped in the
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costume of the Revolutionary period. The right hand rests upon a sword, the
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left being raised as in the act of giving emphasis to his utterance. The
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chest is thrown out, the head, which is uncovered, is elevated,
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and upon the broad brow and the firm manly features of the face, thought
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and soul are unmistakably stamped. Cambridge Chronicle, June sixth, eighteen fifty seven.
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This statue was dedicated on the seventeenth of June eighteen fifty seven with magnificent
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ceremony, an account of which is contained in a volume entitled Inauguration of the
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Statue of Warren by the Bunker Hill Monument Association. One of the speakers,
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Henry J. Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts, said, on the battleground,
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this mighty multitude has assembled women and men, the statesman, the soldier,
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the orator, the citizen, those placed an authority, these various benevolent and
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fraternal associations, all the old the young, of every calling and every station,
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to aid by their presence and their sympathy in doing honor to the patriot
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and the martyr. By dedicating the statue of General Joseph Warren. This occasion
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was emphatically national in its character. Warren was also eulogized on the great day
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eighteen twenty five of laying the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument. When Lafayette
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was present and sat among the two hundred veterans of the Revolution, of whom
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forty were survivors of the battle. Daniel Webster then uttered before them the following
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apostrophe. But ah him the first great martyr in this great cause, him
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the premature victim of his own self, devoting heart, him the head of
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our civil councils, and the destinied leader of our military bands, whom nothing
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brought hither but the unquenchable fire of his own spirit, him cut off by
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providence in the honor of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom falling ere, he saw
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the star of his country rise, pouring out his generous blood like water,
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before he knew whether it would fertilize a land, or freedom or of bondage.
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How shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle the utterance of thy name.
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Our poor work may perish, but Thine shall endure. This monument may
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molder away, the solid ground it rests upon, may sink down to a
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level with the sea, But Thy memory shall not fail. Wheresoever among men
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a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty.
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Its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with Thy spirit. End of Appendix read
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by Robert Morrell. End of Life and Times of Joseph Warrene by Richard Frodingham