Mercy Otis Warren

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Mercy Otis Warren September 14, 1728 – October 19, 1814) was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. As a young child, Mercy loved reading, writing, and listening to her brother and father discussing politics. At the age of 26, she married James Warren in 1754 and moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts. They had five sons. She felt it was her duty to participate in the Patriot cause during the American Revolution. Her brother was the noted patriot lawyer James Otis, and they were descended from Mayflower passenger Edward Doty. Her husband James was a descendant of fellow Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. In 1772, she published her play, The Adulateur. After the war, in 1790, Mrs. Warren published a volume of poetry in her name. In 1805, she wrote History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. Congress had first asked Thomas Paine to write the history of the American Revolution, but he declined. Warren died in Plymouth in 1814. Mercy Otis Warren File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Mercy Otis Warren File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala The founding of the University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cubas most well-established university. ... is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Barnstable County Settled 1637 Incorporated 1638 Government  - Type Council-manager city  - Town    Manager John C. Klimm Area  - City  76. ... James Warren (September 28, 1726 – November 28, 1808) was the President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and a Paymaster General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, among other positions. ... Nickname: Location in Plymouth County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Plymouth County Settled 1620 Incorporated (town) 1670 Government [1]  - Type Representative town meeting  - Town    Manager Mark Sylvia Area  - Town  134. ... Patriots (also known as Americans, Whigs, Congress-Men or Rebels) were colonists of the British Thirteen Colonies who rebelled against the British control during the American Revolution and declared themselves an independent nation, the United States of America in July 1776. ... John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen... James Otis, Jr. ... For other uses, see Mayflower (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Mayflower (disambiguation). ... Richard Warren, among 10 passengers in the landing party, when the Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod, November 11, 1620 On November 21, 1620, Richard Warren cosigned the Mayflower Compact, covenant of equal laws for the Colony Richard Warren (c. ... History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution is a book by Mercy Otis Warren. ... For other persons of the same name, see Thomas Paine (disambiguation). ...

Mercy Otis Warren has been called one of the most literate American women of the 18th century. Prior to the American Revolution, she hosted political meetings in her home. In addition, she was close to both John Adams and Abigail Adams, until a political difference left them estranged. "Probably under prodding from Abigail, Adams began to repair the damage he had done with Warren, so that by 1814 the friendship was fully reinstated". John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen... For other persons named John Adams, see John Adams (disambiguation). ... Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the first Second Lady of the United States and the second First Lady of the United States though the terms were not coined until...

Warren was likely responsible for anti-federalist newspaper contributions under the pseudonym "A Columbian Patriot."

References

• Cohen, Lester H. "Mercy Otis Warren: the Politics of Language and the Aesthetics of Self." American Quarterly 1983 35(5): 481-498. ISSN 0003-0678 Fulltext online at Jstor
• Davies, Kate, "Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender" (Oxford UP, 2005)
• Davies, Kate, "Revolutionary Correspondence: Reading Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren," 'Women's Writing' (2006) 13:1, 73-97.
• Friedman, Lawrence J. and Shaffer, Arthur H. "Mercy Otis Warren and the Politics of Historical Nationalism." New England Quarterly 1975 48(2): 194-215. ISSN 0028-4866 Fulltext online at Jstor
• Gelles, Edith B. "Bonds of Friendship: the Correspondence of Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren" Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1996 108: 35-71. ISSN 0076-4981
• Lane, Larry M. and Lane, Judith J. "The Columbian Patriot: Mercy Otis Warren and the Constitution." Women & Politics 1990 10(2): 17-32. ISSN 0195-7732
• Oreovicz, Cheryl Z. "Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)" Legacy 1996 13(1): 54-64. ISSN 0748-4321 Fulltext online at Swetswise
• Richards, Jeffrey H. Mercy Otis Warren. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, no. 618.) Twayne, 1995. 195 pp.; reviewed at William and Mary Quarterly 199666 54(3): 659-661. Fulltext of review in Jstor
• Wood, Gordon S. "The Authorship of the Letters from the Federal Farmer" (in Notes and Documents). "William and Mary Quarterly," 3rd Ser., Vol. 31, No. 2. (Apr., 1974), pp. 299-308.
• Zagarri, Rosemarie. A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution. Harlan Davidson, 1995t William and Mary Quarterly 1997 54(3): 659-661. Fulltext of review in Jstor

Warren, Mercy Otis, The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations, Ed. and Ann. by Lester H. Cohen (2 vols.) Liberty Classics, 1988 (modern reprint of orig. 1804 edition).

• Ellis, Joseph J. "The Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams" 1993. p.184 ISBN 0-393-31133-3

Links

• Overview of her life

• Full Text of "History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution"(1805).

• Works of Mercy Otis Warren by Richard Seltzer

• Mercy Otis Warren's Gendered Melodrama of Revolution by Nina Baym

• [1]Kate Davies, "Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender" (Oxford University Press, 2006)

See also

• SS Mercy Warren - World War II Liberty ship launched in 1943