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Mercy Warren, American patriot and writer, 1872. During the time of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) hosted political meetings in her home. She wrote satires on the British, and 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 American Revolution. She died in Plymouth in 1814. Engraving from John Gilmary Shea, A Child's History of the United States, Hess and McDavitt, New York, 1872.