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Mercy Otis Warren

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Profession
Historian
Died
Oct 19, 1814
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
Barnstable MA
About
An American Revolutionary-era author of history, propaganda, and political satire, she is best known for her multi-volume work, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805). This was the first historical account of the American Revolution to be written by a woman.
Family
She was the third of thirteen children born to Colonel James Otis and Mary Allyne Otis. She married James Warren in 1754; the couple subsequently became parents to five sons.

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