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36 to james warren [Although the war was still in its early stages, mow began to sour on the town where she lived. Despite her fervent belief in republican government and virtue, she observed in Plymouth instead what she thought was an unwarranted tolerance of Tories in their midst, including the Winslow family, and the taste for luxury goods at a time when conditions demanded self-imposed privation for the good of the war effort. This disgust with her neighbors emerged as one of her main themes for the next two decades, “party Resentment.” Meanwhile, jw was in Boston, having just been elected Speaker of the Massachusetts House.] [Plymouth, June 14, 1777] According to the plan agreed on I set out on Tuesday & arrived at my own house in safety a little before five. Found all well & in good order that it doubled my regret for hastening home so long before you. It is but a gloomy place without you. There are few places I have seen that I should not prefer to plimouth were it not the interest of the best of Husbands to reside there but when he is absent I find nothing to Attach me to the place; a people Defective both in Literacy & polite Education & soured by the Bitterness of party Resentment cannot be very agreeable to one of my social temper. But one would think the obligations they are under to a man spending both time & fortune in their service would dictate to them that it was but a piece of common Civility to step in & and congratulate his wife on her return after a Long absence but neither man woman nor child has pd you that Compliment Except one who [??] was at the door when I returnd. But I have so small an opinion of the Friendships of the World & such a sense of the ingratitude of man that it is a matter of great indifference with me whether I am in the city or the Villa provided I have the Company of that man of whose Friendship I have had more than twenty years Experience & without whom Life has few Charms for me. My ardent prayer is that you may succeed in your Earnest Endeavours to be instrumental in the Salvation of your Country & preserve it from that Yoke of Bondage prepared for it, but if the Efforts of the Virtuous now fail I think the Conflict must Cease & however mortifying we must yeald to the arm of Lawless power rendered sucessful by the pusalinimity of some 96  to james warren, june 1777 & the Luxury & Avirice of others. You can after a ten years ineffectual struggle quit the Walk of public Life & return with the Consolations of a peaceful Conscience & the possesion of a Mind untainted by the corrupt influence of Avarice or Ambition. Since the above was wrote I have seen several people who are anxious for your welfare & wonder at my Leaving you & if you are not Likely to be home soon [??] shall be with you again. Capt Samson saild on Saturday. I have not heard but all is well at the farm.1 I shall write again soon in the mean time subscribe yours affectionatly M Warren June 14 77 mwp2, rc? 1. The farm at Clifford, the Warren estate outside of Plymouth proper. During the winter , the Warrens lived on North Street in town. The “Capt Samson” she mentions may be Captain Simeon Sampson of Plymouth County, brother of Jonathan Sampson and uncle to Deborah Sampson, the woman who disguised herself as a man and served in the American army as a soldier at the end of the war. 37 to janet livingston montgomery Plymouth, November 25, 17771 The depredations made in the State of New York and the confusion into which that City has been thrown the Summer past, with the uncertain residence of its distressed inhabitants must be my apology for postponing to acknowledge the receipt of your very agreeable favour of March last. Though compassion and sympathy were the first motives which led to a correspondence, I should be greatly wanting to myself, was I to neglect the culture of an acquaintance which promises both pleasure and improvement . The sensibility of soul, the pathos of grief so strongly marked in your letters, have convinced me that the brave Montgomery had a partner worthy of his character. The plaintive periods are wrote with that elegance of style, that graceful diction which excites in me the warmest wishes to continue the intercourse...

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