Edmund Quincy

Other Events:

• Education: 1722, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was graduated at Harvard

Notes:

He was author of a "Treatise on Hemp Husbandry," published in 1765.

Family/Spouse: E. Wendall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dorothy Quincy was born on 10 May 1747; and died.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Statesman
• Education: 1699, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was graduated at Harvard

Notes:

and entered early into public life as representative from his native town, and afterward as member of the council. He was a judge of the supreme court from 1718 until his death. A controversy having arisen as to the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, he was appointed agent for Massachusetts, and embarked for England in December, 1737. Soon after his arrival in London he fell a victim to small-pox.

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

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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