Mercy otis warren biography timeline example
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Mercy otis warren biography timeline example
Mercy Otis was the third of 13 children born to Colonel James Otis and Mary Allyne Otis in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Her mother, Mary Allyne Otis, was a descendant of one of the passengers on the Mayflower, and the family had both wealth and social standing.
Was Elected
In , Mercy's father, James Otis Sr. was elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Mercy, now a teenager, had been raised with revolutionary ideas from childhood and was educated at home, along with her brothers, Joseph and James, by the Reverend Jonathan Russell.
On November 14, , at 26 years of age, Mercy married James Warren.
The family settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts and Mercy had five sons, all of whom lived to adulthood. James Warren became sheriff of Plymouth, then took on increasingly important political roles.