WARREN, James, Revolutionary leader, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 28 September, 1726; died there, 27 November, 1808. He was graduated at Harvard in 1745, and became a prosperous merchant in Plymouth. In 1766 he was chosen a member of the colonial assembly, where he served until its final dissolution in 1774. He took a prominent part in the establishment of the system of committees of correspondence in 1772. After the death of General Joseph Warren at Bunker Hill, he was chosen to succeed him as president of the Provincial congress of Massachusetts. The connection between his family and that of Joseph Warren, if there be any, is to be sought in England before 1600.--His wife, Mercy, author, born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, 25 September, 1728; died in Plymouth, 19 October, 1814, was a sister of the illustrious orator James Otis, and married James Warren in 1754. She was one of the most highly educated and brilliant women of her time, and her friendship was much prized by such men as Jefferson and the Adamses. Throughout her life she was an intimate friend of Abigail Adams. One of her earliest writings was "The Group," a dramatic piece in two acts, in which Governor Hutchinson and other Tories were satirized. "The Squabble of the Sea-Nymphs" gives an account of the Boston tea-party, somewhat after the style of the " Rape of the Lock." Her two tragedies, "The Sack of Rome" and " The Ladies of Castile," were well thought of in their day. These were collected in "Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous " (Boston, 1790). A work of much greater importance is her "History of the American Revolution" (3 vols., Boston, 1805), which is valuable because of the personal acquaintance of the writer with so many of the characters. There is a sketch of Mrs. Warren in Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet's "Women of the Revolution " (New York, 1856).