Dr Joseph Warren's Home

   The Bostonian Society has in its collections a nineteenth century engraving purporting to be a depiction of the house Dr Joseph Warren rented on Hanover Street in Boston's North End. In this home Warren lived with his wife (before her death in May 1773) and four children and from it conducted his medical practice. There are conflicting accounts of when he rented this house from Joshua Green, but it most likely was in June 1770, for on that date Warren signed a note setting forth the terms of purchase of a "Negro boy", apparently a servant that came with the home.
  The engraving was donated to the Bostonian Society by the owner of a large hotel which subsequently stood on the site of the Warren home and its accuracy cannot be verified since it appears it was drawn from the memory of people who saw it when it was standing. The home was not far from the Green Dragon Tavern and Paul Revere's House.

The Green/Warren Home

Map of Boston's North End. "Hannover" Street is just south of the Mill Pond (No 6)

                                                            

Bunker Hill

   Following are two prints by Don Troiani depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill. The first print is a snapshot of the action at about 3PM in the afternoon. Col Prescott is the man standing with the sword in his hand. The British are about to mount their first assault on Bunker Hill.

   The second is of the redoubt on Breed's Hill. As the patriots' ammunition runs out, the British Marines & 47th Regiment of Foot pour over the earthen walls. The colonists are forced back out of the redoubt in one of the most brutal hand-to-hand fights of the war, giving ground only in the face of overwhelming force.

"I cannot pretend to describe the Horror of the Scene within the Redoubt when we enter’d it, ’twas streaming with Blood & strew’d with dead dying Men the Soldiers stabbing some and dashing out the Brains of others was a sight too dreadful for me to dwell any longer on..." Lt John Waller, First Marines 

                                                                              

Update to December 5th Post on Major John Pitcairn

  A faithful reader has pointed out to me that my December 5th post on Major John Pitcairn had been posted without sufficient editing since it was obvious that some information had been left out in my discussion concerning the incident at Francis Shaw's home involving his son Sam, Lt Wragg and Major Pitcairn. I have now edited that post and published an updated version. Mea culpa.