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| | Joseph Warren |
 | | He was descended from Peter Warren, whose name appears on the town records of Boston in 1659, where he is called "mariner." Peter's second son, Joseph, built a house in 1.720 in what is now Warren street, Roxbury, and died there in 1729. |
 | | His son, Joseph, born in 1696, married, 29 Nay, 1740, Mary, daughter of Dr. Samuel Stevens, of Roxbury, and the subject of this sketch was their eldest child. |
 | | 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. |
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