This week’s Lake George Battlefield Moments podcast is the first of a two-part interview with historian Christian Di Spigna, author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero (Crown, 2018).
The book is one of only a few biographies of one of the most important early Revolutionaries – the President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress – who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
This week’s podcast host Bruce Venter speaks with the author on Joseph Warren‘s pre-Revolution life and the fascinating information uncovered in his research on this youthful patriot, who had a busy medical and surgery practice in Boston and also owned an apothecary shop. Di Spigna highlights his research into Warren’s still extant account books.
Was born in 1741, graduated from Harvard in 1763, and became involved in politics, associating with John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other leaders of the Sons of Liberty.
In 1768, Royal officials tried to put his publishers Edes and Gill on trial for an incendiary newspaper essay Warren wrote under the pseudonym A True Patriot, but no local jury would indict them.
Warren was also the primary author of the September 9, 1774 “Suffolk Resolves” a response to the British Parliment’s Coercive Acts (known in the United States as the Intolerable Acts). A declaration to British authority of the rights and grievances of the American colonists and calling on people to raise militias.
The statement Resolves were endorsed by the First Continental Congress on September 17, 1774 and a month later incorporated into the Continental Association, the body which drew up the Articles of Confederacy. The Resolves were an inspiration fr the writers of the Declaration of Independence.
Di Spigna also talks a bit about Warren genealogy, and identifies several Warren descendants – it had been thought his line died out.
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