Date: May 24, 1756 (extract) “Real Estate Valuation of Joseph Warren Estate, land valued at 1345 Pounds.” Source: In John Collins Warren Papers II, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Commentary: Widow Mary Stevens Warren took on considerable responsibility to keep the Roxbury family farm intact and viable following the untimely death of her husband, Joseph Warren […]
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Date: June 1774 Author: Attributed by a contemporary to Miss Mercy Scollay; Mercy Otis Warren the likely author “Sir, I was lately in a Company, where the conversation turned to the non-consumption agreement, and the vast importance of resolving not to purchase any thing but the necessities of life; in order to defeat the present […]
Date: September 27, 1774 Author: Hannah Fayerweather Winthrop “I have lately recieved great pleasure from an ingenious satire on that Female Foible Love of dress in the Royal American Magazine. I have heard the author guessd to be Miss Mercy Scollay and the Gentleman who requested it, Dr. Warren. I am not enough acquainted with […]
