Warren, Mercy (1728-1814) American playwright, poet and historian,
Mercy Otis Warren wrote a number of satirical dramas critical of
British rule in America. A friend of many of the best-known
personalities of her time, Mrs. Warren filled her loosely written
"History of the American Revolution" with biographical sketches. This
extremely popular work furnished the average New Englander of the time
their knowledge of the revolution.
The Death of Parson Caldwell's Wife (1805) An excerpt from "History of
the American Revolution." Here Mrs. Warren records an instance of the
barbarity of the soldiers of the King of England as they ravaged the
state of New Jersey. This passage recounts the brutal killing of one
Mrs. Caldwell, the wife of a Presbyterian clergyman near Elizabethtown.
