Warren (Joseph) is born in Roxbury.

The son of Joseph and Mary (Stevens) Warren, Joseph Warren is born at 130 Warren Street, graduates from Roxbury Latin School and Harvard College, studies medicine, open his own practice, and marries Elizabeth Hooton in 1764. He goes on to become Boston’s foremost physician and one of its foremost political leaders, serving as president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, and president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, and drafts the Suffolk Resolves in 1774.* Three days after being named a Major-General in the Continental Army, he is killed at the Battle of Battle of Bunker Hill and buried initially on the battle field on June 17, 1775.* In 1782, Peter Oliver writes, “[Had Warren lived, George Washington would have been] an obscurity.”