Name/Title
Portrait of Benjamin Warren JrEntry/Object ID
LH.2022.001.045Description
Very old black and white image of a man, identified Benjamin Warren Jr. The image is framed in a deep wood frame with a gold interior. The image has an oval matte, with gold trim.
The man is very old and skinny. He is wearing a dark suit and glasses, looking at or just past the camera.
Attached label reads:
"Benjamin Warren Jr.
b June 28th, 1794; d Oct 16, 1863
Quaker, land surveyor, and mariner' per donor of portrait.
According to the Farrow History he was the son of Samuel Warren of Bristol who was a Selectman on the island on 1791. Benjamin was Captain of the ship PAUL. He married Abigail Hatch (born 8/22/1791), the daughter of Jeremiah Hatch Jr and Lydia Porter of Marshfield, Mass. They had seven children. He is buried "in a burying ground on a headland on the north side of Crow Cove, land formerly owned by Benjamin Williams," But his brother George Warren was listed as "of Warren's island"
