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Second Coming, etc." (Portland, 1879 ; 2d ed., re- written and enlarged, 1884) ; " Our Father's Book, or the Divine Authority and Origin of the Bible " (Boston, 1885) ; " The Book of Revelation, a Study" (New York, 1886): and "The Stanley Families in America" (Portland, 1887).

WARREN, James, Revolutionary leader, b. in Plymouth, Mass., 28 Sept., 1726; d. there, 27 Nov., 1808. He was graduated at Harvard in 1745, and became a prosperous merchant in Plymouth. In 1766 he was chosen a member of the colonial as- sembly, where he served until its final dissolution in 1774. He took a prominent part in the estab- lishment of the system of committees of corre- spondence in 1772. After the death of Gen. Joseph Warren at Bunker Hill, he was chosen to succeed him as president of the Provincial congress of Massachusetts. The connection between his family and that of Joseph Warren, if there be any, is to be sought in England before 1600. — His wife, Mercy, author, b. in Barnstable, Mass., 25 Sept., 1728; d. in Plymouth, 19 Oct., 1814, was a sister of the il- lustrious orator James Otis, and married James Warren in 1754. She was one of the most highly educated and brilliant women of her time, and her friendship was much prized by such men as Jeffer- son and the Adamses. Throughout her life she was an intimate friend of Abigail Adams. One of her earliest writings was " The Group," a dramatic piece in two acts, in which Gov. Hutchinson and other Tories were satirized. " The Squabble of the Sea-Nymphs" gives an account of the Boston tea- party, somewhat after the style of the " Rape of the Lock." Her two tragedies, " The Sack of Rome " and " The Ladies of Castile," were well thought of in their day. These werecol- lected in "Poems, Dramatic and Mis- cellaneous " (Bos- ton, 1790). A work of much greater importance is her " History of the American Revolu- tion " (3 vols., Bos- ton, 1805), which is valuable because of the personal ac-

quaintance of the

writer with so many of the characters. There is a sketch of Mrs. Warren in Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet's " Women of the Revolution " (New York, 1856).

WARREN, Joseph, physician, b. in Roxbury, Mass., 11 June, 1741 ; d. in Charlestown, Mass., 17 June, 1775. He was descended from Peter Warren, whose name appears on the town records of Bos- ton in 1659, where he is called " mariner." Peter's second son, Joseph, built a house in 1720 in what is now Warren street, Roxbury, and died there in 1729. A view of the homestead is presented on page 365. His son, Joseph, b. in 1696, married, 29 May, 1740, Mary, daughter of Dr. Samuel Stevens, of Roxbury, and the subject of this sketch was their eldest child. Joseph Warren, the father, was a thrifty farmer, much respected bv his townsmen, by whom he was elected to several offices of trust. He was interested in fruit-raising, and introduced into that part of the country the apple long known as the "Warren russet." in October, 1755, while gathering fruit in his orchard, he fell from the ladder and was instantly killed. His son, Joseph, was graduated at Harvard in 1759, and in the fol- lowing year was appointed master of the Roxbury grammar-school. He studied medicine with Dr. James Lloyd, and began to practise his profession in 1764. He married, 6 Sept., 1764, Miss Elizabeth Hooton, a young lady who had inherited an ample fortune. The passage of the stamp -act in the following year led Dr. Warren to pub- lish several able ar- ticles in the Boston "Gazette." About this time began his intimate friend- ship with Samuel Adams, who con- ceived a warm ad- miration for him,

and soon came to

regard him as a stanch and clear-headed ally, who could be depended upon under all circumstances. On the occasion of the Townshend acts, Dr. War- ren's articles, published under the signature of "A True Patriot," aroused the anger of Gov. Francis Bernard, who brought the matter before his coun- cil, and endeavored to prosecute Messrs. Edes and Gill, the publishers of the " Gazette," for giving currency to seditious libels ; but the grand jury refused to find a bill against these gentlemen. The affair created much excitement in Boston, and led Gov. Bernard to write to Lord Hillsborough, secretary of state for the colonies, recommending the arrest of the publishers on a charge of treason. In the affair of the sloop " Liberty," in June, 1768, Dr. Warren was one of the committee appointed to wait upon the governor at his country-seat at Jamaica Plain, and protest against the impressment of seamen and the vexatious enforcement of the revenue laws. He was present at every town-meeting held in Boston, from the arrival of the British troops in October, 1768, to their removal in March, 1770, and he was one of the committee of safety appointed after the so-called " massacre " on 5 March, n July he was appointed on a committee to consider the condition of the town, and send a report to England. It was apparently of him that a Tory pamphleteer wrote: " One of our most bawling demagogues and voluminous writers is a crazy doctor." In March, 1772, he delivered the anniversary oration upon the "massacre"; in November his name was recorded immediately after those of James Otis and Samuel Adams in the list of the first committee of correspondence. During the next two years he was in active co-operation with Samuel Adams, and when, in August. 1774, that leader went to attend the meeting of the Continental congress at Philadelphia, the leadership of the party in Boston devolved upon Dr. Warren. On 9 Sept., 1774, the towns of Suffolk county met in convention at Milton, and Dr. Warren read a paper drawn up bv him- self, and since known as the "Suffolk resolves.*' The resolutions, which were adopted unanimously, declared that a king who violates the chartered rights of his people forfeits their allegiance ; they declared the regulating act null and void, and ordered all the officers appointed under it to resign their offices at