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Warren
Related surnames or alternate spellings: Waren
Notable ancestors include:
Dr. Joseph Warren, sent Paul Revere on his ride, died at Bunker Hill, Sons of Liberty
Earl Warren, governor of California, and Chief Justice of the US
Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators
Mercy Otis Warren, Revolutionary author and poet
Richard Warren, Mayflower passenger and signer of The Mayflower Compact
Robert Penn Warren, author and poet
Genealogy websites
“Descendants of Richard Warren” (Rootsweb)
“The Family Warren: Photos & stories from the Warren family archives” England line
“The Warren Family in America: Humphrey Warren, Thomas Warren, Barton Warren…” WarrenFamilyHistory.com
“The Warren Photo History” (Rootsweb)
“Warren Families (3) 1623 - 1784” (Rootsweb)
“Warren” (Rootsweb)
Message boards & mailing lists
“Warren” posts on Ancestry.com Message Boards
“Warren” posts on Genealogy.com GenForum Message Boards -
“Thomas Warren’s royal ancestry” thread on Google Groups
“Warren family” on British Genealogy & Family History Forums
“Warren family” on GenealogyWise
Social media groups & societies
“Descendants of Richard Warren of the Mayflower” Facebook group.
“The Warren Cousins” Membership society
“Warren Family Heritage Group” Facebook group
Photographs:
“Archie D. Warren and his wife Allice Foster” Delaware County NY Genealogy
“Col. James L. Warren, wife, and daughter - ambrotype” Center for Sacramento History
“Earl Warren Family” Center for Sacramento History
“Elinor Remick Warren, 1935” UCLA Library Digital Collections
“Governor Earl Warren and family” Center for Sacramento History
“James L.L.F. Warren, 1875” Center for Sacramento History
“Joseph Collins Warren (1778 - 1856)” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Joseph Warren (1741 - 1775), oil portrait” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Judge Warren and Family, 1885” CSU Chico Digital Collections
“Mercy Otis Warren” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Photo of “Uncle” Thomas E. Warren (1908)”, Southampton History
“Picture of Warren family” 1905, Cornell University Library Digital Collections
“The Rev. Thomas Warren” National Portrait Gallery, London.
“The Warren Family, Fort Worth, Texas, 1930” TESSA Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library
“Thomas Warren standing in front of Five Row School” 1930, Reynolda House Museum
“Warren family on beach” Priest Lake, Idaho
Website clippings, news articles, blog posts (no paywalls)
“The Warren Family” Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard Countway Library
“Thomas Warren” Blue Earth County Historical Society
“Warren Family Notes” Gretna Historical Society, Gretna Public Library
“Warren Family” The Heritage Lady
“Where there’s a will: John Warren” Empty Branches on the Family Tree. 6 May 2015, by Linda Stufflebean
Artifacts
“Coffield / Warren Family Bible Records” - North Carolina Digital Collections
“Floyd B. Warren - excerpts from Family Bible” Delaware County NY Genealogy and History
“Joseph Collins Warren journal, entry for 16 October 1846” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Mercy Otis Warren brooch” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Sword said to have belonged to Gen. Joseph Warren” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Warren Family fonds information” University of British Columbia Archives
Correspondence and letters
“Letter from Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 31 December 1809” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Letter from Hannah Winthrop to Mercy Otis Warren, 27 September 1774” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Letter from James Warren to Mercy Otis Warren, 18 June 1775” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Letter from John Adams to James Warren, 7 October 1775” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 27 November 1772” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772” Massachusetts Historical Society
“Samuel Warren letter to Charles Kent, 1870” The Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Homes & historical markers
Surry: Smith’s Fort (Warren House) - built by Thomas Warren, 1652
“The Warren House”, Georgia
Oral histories
“Don Warren Collection” Library of Congress
“Interviews with Robert Penn Warren” The Robert Penn Warren Oral History Archive
“Lester Warren Collection” Library of Congress
“Linda Warren Collection” Library of Congress
“Mark Warren Collection” Library of Congress
“Vincent Warren Collection” Library of Congress
Books (Online & In Print)
Warren, John C. “Genealogy of Warren, with some historical sketches” Boston. John Wilson and son, 1854. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Warren, Mary Parker. “A Genealogy of one branch of the Warren family with its intermarriages: 1637 - 1890” 1890. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Warren, Orin. “Warren; a genealogy of the descendants of James Warren who was in Kittery, Maine, 1652 - 1656” Haverhill, Massachusetts. The Chase Press, 1902. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Warren, Rev. Thomas. “A history and genealogy of the Warren Family: In Normandy, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Holland, Tuscany, United States of America, etc. (A.D. 912 - 1902)” Gresham Books. 1982 (originally 1902)/ (Full view on Internet Archive - requires login and borrow)
Warren, Richard. “Genealogy of the Warren Family from Richard, Who came in the Mayflower, in 1620 - 1872”. Albany, NY. J. Munsell, State Street, 1874. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Warren, Theodore. “Warren genealogy” 1895 (Full view on Hathidigital Trust)
Warren, Vanetta Hosford. “Adriel Warren of Berwick Maine, His Forebears and Descendants” Boston, Massachusetts. Pinkham Press, 1964. (Full view on Internet Archive - requires login and borrow)
Warren, William Wilkens. “Autobiography and genealogy of William Wilkins Warren” Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Wilson and son, 1884. (Full view on Internet Archive).
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