REVOLUTIONARY HEROES AND OTHER HISTORICAL PAPERS

A tragic event occurred at this farm-house in 1775 when Warren was a boy of fourteen. It was on an October day in the midst of the apple-gathering season about the time when the Warren Russet had attained all the maturity it can upon its native tree. Farmer Warren was out in his orchard. His wife a woman worthy of being the mother of such a son as she had was indoors getting dinner ready for her husband her four boys and the two laborers upon the farm. About noon she sent her youngest son John mentioned in the above inscription to call his father to dinner. On the way to the orchard the lad met the two laborers carrying towards the house his fathers dead body. While standing upon a ladder gathering apples from a high tree Mr. Warren had fallen to the ground and broken his neck. He died almost instantly. The Boston Newsletter of the following week bestowed a few lines upon the occurrence; speaking of him as a man of good understanding industrious honest and faithful; ‘a useful member of society who was generally respected among us and whose death is universally lamented.’