Joseph Warren II Estate Documents

Dates: 1756 thru 1757 Accounting Vol. 64, p. 470 (also noted as Vol. 51, p. 5-6, dated Jan 5, 1756.) Doner Appraisal Vol. 64, pp. 471-472 (Vol. 51 for 1756-1757) May 2, 1766  1495/7 Pounds total including: “One old Negro Man servt & young Negro Girl” valued at 26/13/4. Vol. 51, p. 630, 800/0/0 for […]

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Real Estate Valuation

Date: May 24, 1756 (extract) “Real Estate Valuation of Joseph Warren Estate, land valued at 1345 Pounds.” Source: In John Collins Warren Papers II, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Commentary: Widow Mary Stevens Warren took on considerable responsibility to keep the Roxbury family farm intact and viable following the untimely death of her husband, Joseph Warren […]

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Articles which Female Vanity has Comprised as Necessaries

Date: June 1774 Author: Attributed by a contemporary to Miss Mercy Scollay; Mercy Otis Warren the likely author “Sir, I was lately in a Company, where the conversation turned to the non-consumption agreement, and the vast importance of resolving not to purchase any thing but the necessities of life; in order to defeat the present […]

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Letter to Mercy Otis Warren

Date: September 27, 1774 Author: Hannah Fayerweather Winthrop “I have lately recieved great pleasure from an ingenious satire on that Female Foible Love of dress in the Royal American Magazine. I have heard the author guessd to be Miss Mercy Scollay and the Gentleman who requested it, Dr. Warren. I am not enough acquainted with […]

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A Pretty, Tall, Genteel, Fair Faced Young Gentleman

Date: April 13, 1764 Author: John Adams “My dearest We arrived at Captn. Cunninghams, about Twelve O’Clock and sent our Compliments to Dr. Perkins. The Courrier returned with Answer that the Dr. was determined to inoculate no more without a Preparation preevious to Inoculation. That We should have written to him and have received Directions […]

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Unlikely Beginnings of a Friendship

Date: 1800s, referring to 1764 Author: John Adams “In the Winter of 1764 the Small Pox prevailing in Boston, I went with my Brother into Town and was inocculated under the Direction of Dr. Nathaniel Perkins and Dr. Joseph Warren. This Distemper was very terrible even by Inocculation at that time. My Physicians dreaded it, […]

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Rights and the Liberty of the Press

Author: A True Patriot, pseudonym Date: March 14, 1768 “With Pleasure I hear the general Voice of this People in favor of freedom; and it gives me solid satisfaction to find all orders of unplaced independent men, firmly determined, as far as in them lies, to support their own Rights, and the Liberty of the […]

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An Encrease of Absurdity

Author: X., a Loyalist pseudonym Date: March 18, 1768 “London, December 19. From the Public Ledger. To the Printer. If the People of Great Britain were not as remarkable for inconsistency as for any other of their distinguishing characteristics, one would be tempted to imagine them possessed of worse minds, than the most barbarous savages […]

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By a Strange Kind of Compliment

Date: March 7, 1768 “My first performance, has by a strange kind of compliment, been by some applied to his Excellency Gov. Bernard. It is not for me to account for the construction put upon it. Every man has a right to make his own remarks, and if he satisfies himself, he will not displease […]

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The Infamous, Detestable Scrawl

Date: March 7, 1768 Author: Butler, probably a pseudonym “The scandalous, factious, threatning Piece, – nay the infamous, detestable virulent scrawl in Edes and Gill’s last Monday’s paper – that so truly deserved the censure of the lower – as well as the upper –, I find was explained away by – C—y and – […]

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