John Quincy

Other Events:

• Nickname: Colonel
• Resided: Bef 1690, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
• Resided: Aft 1689, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
• Education: 1708, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; at Harvard

Notes:

He held the office of speaker of the house of representatives longer than any other person in the provincial period, and was for forty successive years a member of the council.

In 1717, he was elected to represent Braintree at the Massachusetts General Court, was re-elected in 1719, and served in that capacity until 1740. From 1727 to 1740, he served as the Speaker of the House. In 1741, Quincy was voted out of office, but was returned there in 1744, where he served four additional years. He died on July 13, 1767 at the age of 78, only two days after the birth of his namesake grandson.

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Nickname:
Although officially only achieving the rank of major in the British army, he was commonly referred to as "Colonel".

Education:
was graduated at Harvard in 1708

John married E. Norton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. E. Quincy

Other Events:

• Resided: Bef 1690, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
• Resided: Aft 1690, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Notes:

Resided:
the family moved to Braintree, Massachusetts and established a homestead at Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount, in what is present-day Quincy.

Died:
Bef 8 Jan 1698
- edmund quincy notes

aft 1890
- when son was 1 yr old, wikipedia

Daniel married A. Shepard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Statesman

Notes:

was a magistrate and representative of his town in the general court, and lieutenant-colonel of the Suffolk regiment. In 1689 he was appointed one of the committee of safety, which formed the provisional government of the colony until the arrival of the new charter from William and Mary.

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1628, Massachusetts
• Immigration: 04 Sep 1633, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts

Notes:

His family seems to have been connected with the Quincys, Earls of Winchester in the 13th century. (See Grate's "Memoranda respecting the Families of Quincy and Adams," Havana, 18410
He was one of the committee appointed to purchase the rights of William Black-stone to the Shawmut peninsula. In 1635 several thousand acres of land in the Mr. Wollaston plantation were granted to Edmund Quincy and William Coddington, afterward one of the founders of Rhode Island. This district was presently set off from Boston as a distinct township under the name of Braintree, and part of it was long afterward incorporated as the town of Quincy

more kids history
http://www.famousamericans.net/edmundquincy/

Immigration:
came to Massachusetts in 1628

Immigration:
and, after returning to England for his wife and children, sailed again in the ship which brought the Reverend John Cotton, and anchored in Boston harbor, 4 September, 1633.

Died:
Mr. Wollaston, Massachusetts, in November or December, 1635