(June 11, 1741–June 17, 1775), was an American revolutionary patriot and physician. He sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride to Lexington, warning of the British advance. He graduated from Harvard in 1759, and became a physician in Boston in 1764. He was elected President pro-tempore of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, April of 1775, and was commissioned as a major general in the Continental Army. Joseph Warren was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, and the Bunker Hill Memorial was erected where he fell.
On March 5, 1772, the second anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Joseph Warren delivered a commemorative speech:
If you perform your part, you must have the strongest confidence that the same Almighty Being who protected your pious and venerable forefathers, who enabled them to turn a barren wilderness into a fruitful field, who so often made bare His arm for their salvation, will still be mindful of you, their offspring.
May this Almighty Being graciously preside in all our councils. May He direct us to such measures as He Himself shall approve, and be pleased to bless.
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the world in one common undistinguishable ruin!1170
On April 26, 1775, Joseph Warren, then President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, addressed to the British the American account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He closed:
We sincerely hope that the Great Sovereign of the universe, who has so often appeared for the English nation, will support you in every rational and manly exertion with these colonies for saving it from ruin.1171