The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . m Warren, a distinguished physician and anatomist, was alsohorn lure. The original mansion being iit rains, this house was built!?>/ John C. Warren, M. />., son of the lust named, as a permanentmemorial of the spot. The Warren farm contained many valuable , it is claimed, originated the Roxbnry Russeting, else-where knownas the BostonRusseting, afine apple, witha red bloom,keeping late inthe spring, butw h i c h h a sg
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . m Warren, a distinguished physician and anatomist, was alsohorn lure. The original mansion being iit rains, this house was built!?>/ John C. Warren, M. />., son of the lust named, as a permanentmemorial of the spot. The Warren farm contained many valuable , it is claimed, originated the Roxbnry Russeting, else-where knownas the BostonRusseting, afine apple, witha red bloom,keeping late inthe spring, butw h i c h h a sgreatly deteri-orated. Onehundred andtwenty-three ofthese trees werecut down dur-ing the siegefor military pur-poses, a very» serious loss to Mis. Warren, who depended very much upon their productfor her support. Her husband, the father of the killed by a fall from one of them in 1755. His son John,who was sent by his mother to call his father to dinner, metthe body as two laborers were bearing it towards the house. Warrens father was a farmer, industrious, upright, and ofgood understanding, who filled several town offices with WARREN HurSE JOSEPH WARREN. 215 Mary, his widow, was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Stevens,and granddaughter of Robert Calef, whose courage and in-dependence of character she transmitted to her famous Warren was left with the charge of four sons. — Joseph,Samuel, who continued to live with his mother and cultivatethe paternal estate, Ebcnezer, and John. She attained an ad-vanced age. was hospitable, kind, and benevolent, and contin-ued until her death in 1803, at the age of ninety, to reside inthe family mansion, where she was long an object of generalinterest. In her old age, when her own children had lefttheir fireside to take their part in the active scenes of life, itwas one of her dearest pleasures to gather a group of theirchildren and the children of others around her, and to do allin her power to promote their enjoyme
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