Quincy political family
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The Quincy family /ˈkwɪnzi/ was a prominent political family in Massachusetts from the mid-17th century through to the early 20th century. It is connected to the Adams political family through Abigail Adams.[1][2][3]
The family estate was in
Josiah Quincy Mansion
was demolished in 1969.
The names of President
are among the legacies of the Quincy family name.Members
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6th President of the United States
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- Edmund Quincy (1602–1636) I, who emigrated to Boston 1633 and settled Mount Wollaston 1635, married Judith Pares (d. 1654)
- Judith Quincy (1626–1695), married John Hull (1624–1683), merchant and Massachusetts Bay Colony politician
- Dorothy Quincy House (1685), married Joanna Hoar (1625–1680) and remarried to Elizabeth Gookin Eliot(1645–1700)
- Daniel Quincy (1651–1690), Boston merchant and ker, married Anna Shephard (1663–1708)
- Anna Quincy (1685–1717), married John Holman (1679–1759)
- Colonel John Quincy (1689–1767): Quincy, Massachusetts and John Quincy Adams were both named in his honor. Quincy was Abigail Adams' grandfather. He was John Quincy Adams' great-grandfather. John married Elizabeth Norton (1696–1769) of Hingham, daughter of Rev. John Norton, pastor of Old Ship Church.
- Norton Quincy (1716–1801), public servant, recluse, married Martha Salisbury (1727–1748)
- Anna Quincy (1719–1799), married John Thaxter (1721–1802) of Hingham
- Elizabeth Quincy (1721–1775), married the Reverend William Smith (1707–1783) of the First Church of Weymouth
- Mary Smith (1741–1811), married Richard Cranch (1726–1811)
- Abigail Smith (1744–1818), married John Adams (1735–1826), second president of the United States
- Abigail Adams (1765–1813), "Nabby" married William Stephens Smith (1755–1816)
- Louisa Catherine Johnson(1775–1852)
- Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), married Abigail Brooks (1808–1889)
- John Quincy Adams II (1833–1894), lawyer and politician
- Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915), Civil War general, president of Union Pacific Railroad (1884–1890)
- Secretary of the Navy, mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts
- Henry Brooks Adams(1838–1918), married Marian Hooper (1843–1885)
- Mary Gardiner Adams (1845–1928), married Henry Parker Quincy (1838–1899)
- Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), married Abigail Brooks (1808–1889)
- Susanna Boylston Adams(1768–1770)
- Charles Adams (1770–1800), married Sarah Smith
- Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), Massachusetts Representative, justice, married Ann Harrod
- William Smith (1746–1787), married Catherine Louise Salmon (1749–1824)
- Elizabeth Smith (1750–1815), married John Shaw (1748–1794), remarried to Stephen Peabody (1741–1819)
- Lucy Quincy (1729–1785), married Cotton Tufts (1732–1815)
- John Quincy (1652–1674)
- Joanna Quincy (1654–1695), married Lieut. David Hobart (1651–1717) of Hingham
- Judith Quincy (1655–1679), married John Rayner (1643–1676)
- Ruth Quincy (1658–1698), married John Hunt
- Edmund Quincy (1681–1737) III, married Dorothy Flynt (1678–1737)
- Edmund Quincy (1703–1788) IV, married Elizabeth Wendell (1704–1769) partner with brother Josiah Quincy (1710–1784)
- Edmund Quincy (1726–1782) V, businessman and land developer, married Anna Huske, remarried to Mehitabel Temple, remarried to Hannah Gannett
- Henry Quincy (1727–1780), married Mary Salter, remarried to Eunice Newell
- Abraham Quincy (1728–1756)
- Elizabeth Quincy (1729–1770), married Samuel Sewall (1715–1771)
- Katherine Quincy (b. 1733)
- Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734–1773), married Elizabeth Williams
- Sarah Quincy (1736–1790), married General William Greenleaf
- Esther Quincy (1738–1810), married Jonathan Sewall (1728–1796), last royal attorney general of Massachusetts
- Dorothy Quincy (1747–1830), married John Hancock(1737–1793), remarried to Captain James Scott (1746–1809)
- Elizabeth Quincy (1706–1746), married John Wendell (1703–1762)
- Dorothy Quincy (1709–1762), "Dorothy Q" of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., married Edward Jackson (1707–1757), Boston merchant and manufacturer
- Mary Jackson (1740–1804), married Oliver Wendell (1733–1818)
- Sarah Wendell married the Reverend Abiel Holmes (1763–1837)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), married Amelia Lee Jackson
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), jurist
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), married Amelia Lee Jackson
- Sarah Wendell married the Reverend Abiel Holmes (1763–1837)
- Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810), merchant and Continental Congress delegate from Massachusetts, married Sarah Barnard (d. 1770), remarried to Hannah Tracy (d. 1797)
- Edward Jackson (1768–1777)
- Henry Jackson (1774–1806), married Hannah Swett (1774–1850)
- Charles Jackson (1775–1855), married Amelia Lee(d. 1808), remarried to Frances Cabot
- Amelia Lee Jackson (d. 1888), married Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894)
- Hannah Jackson, married Francis Cabot Lowell (1775–1817)
- Sarah Jackson, married John Gardner (1770–1825)
- Dr. James Jackson (1777–1867), married Elizabeth Cabot, remarried to Sarah Cabot
- Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780–1847), married Lydia Cabot
- Mary Jackson (1740–1804), married Oliver Wendell (1733–1818)
- Colonel Josiah Quincy I (1710–1784), Revolutionary War soldier, built the Josiah Quincy House, married Hanna Sturgis (1712–1755), remarried to Elizabeth Waldron (1722–1760), remarried to Ann Marsh (1723–1805)
- Edmund Quincy (1733–1768), Boston merchant died at sea in West Indies
- Samuel Quincy (1735–1789), attorney and barrister, solicitor general, loyalist exile, married Hannah Hill (1734–1782) who was a revolutionary and stayed in Massachusetts during her husband's exile, remarried to Mary Ann Chadwell
- Hannah Quincy (1736–1826), "Orlinda" of John Adams diaries, married Bela Lincoln (1734–1773), Hingham physician, brother of General Benjamin Lincoln; remarried to Ebenezer Storer (1730–1807), deacon of Brattle Street Church and treasurer of Harvard College
- Josiah Quincy II (1744–1775), attorney, "the Patriot", newspaper propagandist, died at sea returning from mission to London, married Abigail Phillips (1745–1798), daughter of William Phillips Sr. (1722–1804)
- Josiah Quincy III (1772–1864), president of Harvard University (1829–1845), U.S. Representative (1805–1813), mayor of Boston (1823–1828), married Eliza Susan Morton (1773–1850)
- Eliza Susan Quincy (1798–1884), eldest of "five articulate sisters", artist, archivist and historian
- Josiah Quincy Mansion, married Mary Jane Miller (1806–1874)
- Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829–1910), poet, writer, publicist, married Helen Frances Huntington (1831–1903)
- Josiah Quincy (1859–1919), General Court representative, assistant secretary of the Navy, mayor of Boston (1895–1899), married Ellen Krebs Tyler (1862–1904)
- Edmund Quincy (1903–1997), artist[4]
- Helen Quincy (b. 1861)
- Frances Huntington Quincy (1870–1933), essayist and author, married Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864–1960)
- Quincy Howe (1900–1977), news analyst, author
- Helen Huntington Howe (1905–1975), monologuist, novelist, married Reginald Allen
- Mark DeWolfe Howe (1906–1967), Harvard law professor, historian, biographer, civil rightsleader
- Mabel Quincy
- Violet Quincy
- Josiah Quincy (1859–1919), General Court representative, assistant secretary of the Navy, mayor of Boston (1895–1899), married Ellen Krebs Tyler (1862–1904)
- Samuel Miller Quincy (1833–1887), lawyer, historian, Civil War soldier, and 28th mayor of New Orleans (May 5, 1865 – June 8, 1865)
- Mary Apthorp Quincy (1834–1883), married Benjamin Apthorp Gould
- Susan Quincy Gould (b. 1862)
- Lucretia Gould (b. 1864)
- Alice Bache Gould (b. 1868)
- Benjamin Apthorp Gould (b. 1870)
- Maria Gould (b. 1872)
- Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829–1910), poet, writer, publicist, married Helen Frances Huntington (1831–1903)
- Abigail Phillips Quincy (1803–1893), last Quincy to occupy the Josiah Quincy House
- Maria Sophia Quincy (1805–1886)
- Margaret Morton Quincy (1806–1882), married Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793–1862), traveler and botanist
- Edmund Quincy (1808–1877), diarist, lecturer, author, abolitionist, married Lucilla Pinckney Parker (1810–1860), daughter of prominent Boston merchant Daniel Pinckney Parker
- Edmund Quincy (1834–1894), civil engineer
- Henry Parker Quincy (1838–1899), Harvard MD, "anatomical draughtsman", married Mary Gardiner Adams (1845–1928)
- Mary Quincy (b. 1841)
- Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy (1812–1899), youngest of the "articulate sisters", married Robert Cassie Waterston (1812–1899), Boston clergyman who gave his library to the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Josiah Quincy III (1772–1864), president of Harvard University (1829–1845), U.S. Representative (1805–1813), mayor of Boston (1823–1828), married Eliza Susan Morton (1773–1850)
- Elizabeth Quincy (1757–1825), married Benjamin Guild (1749–1792)
- Ann Quincy (1763–1844), married Asa Packard (1758–1843)
- Edmund Quincy (1703–1788) IV, married Elizabeth Wendell (1704–1769) partner with brother Josiah Quincy (1710–1784)
- John Quincy (b.1683)
- Mary Quincy (1684–1716), married Daniel Baker (1686–1731)
- Daniel Quincy (1651–1690), Boston merchant and ker, married Anna Shephard (1663–1708)
Notes and references
- ISBN 9780738555393.
- ^ Cameron, James R. (1968). Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House.
- ^ Massachusetts Historical Society: Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Family Papers, 1633-1910
- ^ "Edmund Quincy (1903–1997)". Dumbarton Oaks. 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2023-07-27.