Wow. I just found out I'm related to the first American anarchist.

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I knew I was a direct descendant of Dr Joseph Warren, who died at the battle of Bunker Hill (family DAR paperwork), but I had never heard of Josiah Warren until today.

My great-grandfather shared his name. 150 years later and 1500 miles away.

Wow. Just wow.

"Equally notable as an inventive genius, a social philosopher, and a peaceful revolutionist, Josiah Warren stands forth, by descent, by his practical, all-round talents, by the force of an earnest life's work, as an American of the sturdy pioneer type whose brawn and brains have formed the true foundation of the republic. But it is as a representative of ideas and aspirations born amidst the widespread movements for social regeneration which arose and flourished at various times during the first half of the nineteenth century, that this singular personality claims our interest. He was born in Boston in 1798, of historically famous Puritan stock. The Warrens of Pilgrim lineage from which he sprang have furnished Massachusetts with many distinguished citizens, of whom the most renowned was General Joseph Warren, the Revolutionary hero killed by the British at Bunker Hill."

http://libertarian-labyrinth.org/warren/1stAmAnarch.pdf

He went on to found two communes. :wow:


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