Born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis Warren was lived there until 1754 when she married James Warren and moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts. At Plymouth, Warren found herself at the center of a lively Patriot family: both her husband James Warren and her brother James Otis actively took part in Massachusetts politics, and her home became a common meeting place for revolutionaries.
Illuminated from his family, as well as revolutionaries in colonial Mass., Warren also participated in the Patriot cause, beginning to public plays and poems to satrize loyalists and British govornors in New England, especially in colonial Mass.
In 1772, she published her play The Adulateur, the first play in all her life, which encouraged her to write more plays and revolutionary dramas.
She set up good friendships with Abigail and John Adams corresponded with both throughout her life.
In 1805, Warren published her three-volume History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, in which she argued that John Adams violated the “republican principles of American revolution.” For this negative assessment, John Adams was very dissatisfied with her and cut down their friendship.
Late in 1812, when Abigail Adams visited Mercy Warren, they were reconcilated with each other and became good friends again. However, in 1814, Mercy Warrend died.
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