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  Joseph Warren - LoveToKnow Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
JOSEPH WARREN (1 74 1 - 1 775), American politician, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, on the 11th of June 1741.
Warren was a member of the first three provincial congresses (1774-1775), president of the third, and an active member of the committee of public safety.
Warren's speeches are typical examples of the old style of American political eloquence.
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 Bunker Hill Exhibit | Biography | Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, where she lived until 1754, when she married James Warren and moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
There, Mercy Otis Warren found herself at the center of a lively Patriot family: both her husband and her brother James Otis took active parts in Massachusetts politics, and the Warren home became a common meeting place for revolutionaries.
Warren continued to write and publish after the war, issuing a volume of poetry under her own name in 1790 and in 1805 publishing her three-volume History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution.
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 Mercy Warren - LoveToKnow Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MERCY WARREN (1728-1814), American writer, sister of James Otis (q.v.), was born at Barnstable, Mass., and in 1754 married James Warren (1726-1808) of Plymouth Mass., a college friend of her brother.
As member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1766-1774) and its speaker (1776-1777 and 1787-1788), member (1774 and 1775) and president (1775) of the Provincial Congress, paymaster-general in 1775, James Warren took a leading part in the events of the American revolutionary period, and his wife followed its progress with keen interest.
Her gifts of satire were utilized in her political dramas, The Adulator (1773) and The Group (1 775); and John Adams, whose wife Abigail was Mercy Warren's close friend, encouraged her to further efforts.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mercy_Warren   (273 words)

  
 introduction to the work of Mercy Otis Warren by King Dykeman
Mercy Otis was born on a large farm in Barnstable, Massachusetts on September 24, 1728.
Mercy became the chief correspondent and theorist behind her husband, behind Elbridge Gerry, the only Massachusetts delegate to refuse to sign the Constitution as it came out of the convention, and the leader behind the rest of that small number of Massachusetts anti-federalist republicans.
Mercy Otis Warren’s prodigious correspondence continued, and with these last two plays, the poems, and the coming three volume history of the American Revolution, she retired into an even more indirect “behind the scenes” influence on public opinion and the formation of public policy.
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 Prof. Nina Baym: "Mercy Otis Warren's Gendered Melodrama of Revolution"
After Warren's death her name continued to figure in accounts of the revolutionary era as that of an extraordinary woman; the political content and polemical style of her writings, however, excluded them from any American literary canon whose content was supposed to be transcendent and whose style was supposed to be aesthetic.
Warren seems to say that the narration is gendered at the discursive level by the authorial refusal to rest content with mere facts, by her evinced desire to go beyond simple notation of event through reflective and judgmental commentary.
Warren seems to be claiming that her narration is gender-marked by an intellectual seriousness that leads her to move from the scene of carnage to a commentary on the scene's meaning, from narrative to didacticism.
www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/emeritus/baym/essays/warren.htm   (6693 words)

  
 Bunker Hill Exhibit | Biography | James Warren
Warren became involved in state politics during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765; he began a 12-year term in Massachusetts General Court the following year.
After Joseph Warren's death at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Warren succeeded him as president of the Provisional Congress; he also served during the war first as Paymaster General, where he worked with George Washington in Cambridge, then as a member of the Continental Navy Board.
After the war, Warren's fear that the ideals of the Revolution were being forgotten in the formation of the new government put him at odds with many leaders, particularly Gov. John Hancock, and made it increasingly difficult for him to gain election to state office.
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 Mercy Otis Warren
Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814) Born on Cape Cod, Mercy Otis moved a few miles north to Plymouth when she married; she never saw anything beyond eastern Massachusetts -- but the life of her mind was so rich that she was respected by the most cosmopolitan and politically important men of her era.
Warren's thoughts on the subject may have had more influence than she knew.
Warren"), but she kept other poetry so personal that it was not published until almost two centuries after her death.
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 Heath Anthology of American LiteratureMercy Otis Warren - Author Page
Mercy Otis Warren was a poet, dramatist, satirist, patriot propagandist, and historian at a time when women, if they wrote, were confined to belle-lettres or religious subject matter.
Warren’s most audacious trespass on masculine turf, however, was her History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution in three volumes, which appeared in 1805.
As Warren states in her preface, she was uniquely positioned to experience events leading up to the Revolution, and she knew well many of the leaders who took part in the various military campaigns.
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 Mercy Otis Warren, conscience of the American Revolution
Mercy wrote early drafts of this work near the time of the events described, and completed the work about four years before it appeared in 1805.
"Warren, Mercy (1728-1814), American writer, sister of James Otis, was born at Barnstable, Mass., and in 1754 married James Warren (1726-1808) of Plymouth, Mass., a college friend of her brother.
A recent biography of Mercy Warren, entitled First Lady of the Revolution, indicates that she was intimately connected with principal actors and actions of the Revolution.
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Mercy seems to have overlooked the fact that the Latin word "priscus," in its literal sense, meant "old" or "antique" in the sense of "old-fashioned," which could be, and was, used against her.
By marriage, of course, Mercy Otis Warren was a Warren.
Mercy Warren had successfully broken the continuity of regard for the importance of certain people and events, and the popular hacks who followed, looking to create commercial compendiums or textbooks on American history, copied her concerns, and thereby missed some of the most important figures and events in our history.
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 Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, vol. 1 - Foreword: The Online ...
Warren “trembled for the events of the present commotion,” she wrote in 1774; she believed that “there must be a noble struggle to recover the existing liberties of our injured country” and that no one could predict how the struggle would turn out.
Mercy Otis entered the world, the third child and first daughter of James and Mary Allyne Otis, with all the family’s privileges: wealth, social prestige, and political power; she added to these intellect and energy, and she made the most of her gifts.
Warren’s missive was published in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 18, 1781, under the title “A Letter from an American Lady to her Son,” and later reprinted in the Boston Magazine (June 1784) and the Massachusetts Magazine (January 1790).
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 Quakers and Ammonites
Mercy Otis Warren remarks in her history on the unjustified treatment of Quakers, noting that they were excluded from Boston and banned from Massachusetts, while laws in Virginia prohibited associating with Quakers and resulted in their imprisonment and banishment (Warren 1989, 1:9-10).
Warren also alleged that these "dignified ranks" were "to be supported by the labor of the poor, or the taxation of all the conveniences of the more wealthy, for the aggrandizement of a few" (Warren 1989, 2:627).
Warren reports that the British General Burgoyne "summoned the numerous tribes of savages to slaughter and bloodshed," and although he did not "taste the goblet of gore by which they bind themselves to every ferocious deed, he made them a speech calculated to excite them to plunder and carnage" (Warren 1989, 1:222-23).
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 MercyOtisWarren
Mercy Warren had criticized some of the activities of Adams in her book, and Adams retaliated by stating that "history is not the
Mercy Warren began her friendship with Sarah Cary in the 1790's- when Mercy was in her sixties.
Mercy Warren recognized that there was public disdain for women who were involved in politics.
www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/progress/MercyOtisWarren.html   (2045 words)

  
 Women of the American Revolution - Mercy Warren
Warren wrote many letters to her sons at college, containing sound advice, of which she preserved copies, labelling the packages for the use of' her grandchildren.
Warren was afflicted with the failure of her sight; but she submitted to the trial with pious resignation, continuing to receive with cheerfulness the company that frequented her house, and to correspond with her friends by means of a secretary.
Warren in 1807 describes her as at that time erect in person, and in conversation full of intelligence and eloquence.
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 Mercy Otis Warren table   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A native of Barnstable, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod), Mercy moved to Plymouth when she married James Warren.
Mercy and her husband were both ardent patriots and influential in revolutionary circles.
A woman of many accomplishments, Mercy was a political critic, writer and historian.
www.pilgrimhall.org /mercytable.htm   (149 words)

  
 Mercy Otis Warren: Playwright of the Revolution
Otis Warren was one of the voices of the American Revolution, although not a very loud or well-known one.
She lived there until she was 26, moving to Plymouth to live with the man she married, James Warren.
She published a book of poetry in 1790 (Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous) and wrote a book, History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, a three-parter that was published in 1805.
www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/ushistory/mercyotiswarren.htm   (348 words)

  
 Mercy Otis Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mercy was born September 14, 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
Mercy's father was also a justice of the peace.
I think that Mercy was a great writer and person because she was brave enough to tell what she thought about what the British were doing!
www.msad54.k12.me.us /MSAD54Pages/SAMS/elmsite/Elmscolonialrevolution/mercyotiswarren.htm   (169 words)

  
 Women in The American Revolution - Mercy Otis Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mercy Otis Warren wrote the first history of the Revolutionary War.
Mercy got her start before the War officially began because she wanted to do something to reach the common people with revolutionary ideas.
With her husband gone off to fight, Mercy decided to write the history of the American Revolution using her notes from meetings and conversations.
score.rims.k12.ca.us /score_lessons/women_american_revolution/warren.html   (128 words)

  
 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
Mercy Otis Warren, a staunch advocate of independence from the tyranny of 18th century English monarchic rule, was a poet, dramatist, satirist, and historian.
Mercy Otis read intensively, and applied her literary background and talent in the service of the patriotic cause.
These connections gave Mercy Otis Warren a political involvement highly unusual for a woman of her time.
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 MERCY O. WARREN (1728 – 1814)
Her father, husband, and brother all held civil service positions with which they were becoming increasingly frustrated, and leading opponents of royal policy, Sam and John Adams among them, gathered in the Warrens' house in Plymouth to debate politics.
A Jeffersonian believer in the potential for self-rule, Mercy Warren provoked controversy with the publication of her Observations on the New Constitution, in which she argued against ratification of the federalist constitution.
Her Jeffersonian perspective also infuses her three-volume History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (in response to which John Adams, believing he had been slighted, remarked that "History is not the Providence of Ladies").
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 Mercy Otis Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
If I went up to someone and asked them if they knew who Mercy Otis Warren was, they would probably reply by saying "Who?" But by the information I am about to give you, you will not only know what she did, but what a great woman she was.
As a child Mercy was not able to go to school because her parents could not afford it.
It was of course a sad day when Mercy died, but no one will ever forget about her poems or books that she wrote.
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 John Adams's Monarchical Ideas by Mercy Warren
Warren replied, "I am thankful that I am a plebeian." You answered: "No, sir, you are one of the nobles.
Warren's at Barnstable, and many others in very many places that have kept up a distinction similar to nobility." This conversation subsided by a little mirth.
You added with a considerable degree of emotion that you hated frequent elections, that they were the ruin of the morals of the people, that when a youth you had seen iniquity practised at a town meeting for the purpose of electing officers, than you had ever seen in any of the courts in Europe.
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 Mercy Otis Warren
American writer, sister of James Otis, born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, and in 1754 married James Warren of Plymouth Massachusetts, a college friend of her brother.
As member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1766-74) and its speaker (1776-77 and 1787-88), member (1774 and 1775) and president (1775) of the Provincial Congress, and paymaster-general in 1775, James Warren took a leading part in the events of the American revolutionary period, and his wife followed its progress with keen interest.
Her gifts of satire were utilized in her political dramas, The Adulator (1773) and The Group (1775); and John Adams, whose wife Abigail was Mercy Warren's close friend, encouraged her to further efforts.
www.nndb.com /people/669/000114327   (245 words)

  
 Mercy Otis Warren Project - David Lewis, Sculptor - Monumental, Native American, Maritime and Other Sculptures
The Mercy Otis Warren Committee was formed with the support of the Barnstable County Commissioners.
While James is recognized as one of the men who started the march to the revolution in the 1760’s, Mercy was a writer who, because of the restraints upon women of her time, often had to publish anonymously or under a pseudonym.
She has been called "The First Lady of the American Revolution" and was the only woman to write a pamphlet that called for a bill of rights to be added to our Constitution.
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 Mercy Otis Warren Biography / Biography of Mercy Otis Warren Biography
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Mercy Otis was born at West Barnstable, Mass., on Sept. 14, 1728.
Her particular enemy was Thomas Hutchinson, who had served as chief justice and governor of Massachusetts and had been prominent in the "writs of assistance" controversy.
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 PAL: Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
An additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention; to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrated and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters.
Cohen, Lester H. "Mercy Otis Warren: The Politics of Language and the Aesthetics of Self." American Quarterly 35.5 (Wint 1983): 481-498.
Cohen, Lester H. "Explaining the Revolution: Ideology and Ethics in Mercy Otis Warren's Historical Theory." William and Mary Quarterly 37 (1980): 200-18.
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