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Excerpt from The Biography of the Principal American Military and Naval Heroes, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprehending Details of Their Achievements During the Revolutionary and Late Wars
Having become a member of a Masonic insti tution, he received from the Earl of Dalhousie, Grand Master, of the Masonic order in Scotland, in 1769, a commission appointing him Grand Master of all the lodges in Boston and within 100 miles thereof. In 1773 he received another hom mission from the Earl of Dumfries, then Grand Master of the Grand lodge of Scotland, appoint ing him grand'master of all the Masons in North America.
The passage of the celebrated Stamp Act, in 1765, caused a lively sensation throughout the colonies in regard to the ulterior views of the British government. Dr. Warren, among others, from that period regarded every movement of the mother country with a steady eye. His active mind embraced a wider range than the limited pursuits of his profession, hence we find him fore most on every occasion to arrest the progress of usurpation, which had made such strides as to in duce a number ofin?uentia] characters to begin a secret caucus in 1768, at each others habitations, for the discussion of political affairs. The ill judged measures ofthe British cabinet served only to blow into a ?ame the embers ofdiscontent which a too early developement of sinister objects had engendered. The discharge of musquetry on an unarmed assemblage of citizens on the 5th of March 1770, by a regular soldiery, which caused the death of five Bostonians, was a deplorable event, that while it re?ected in more glaring re fulgence the abuse of power, served only to goad the multitude to a determined resistance to such encroachments.
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