The Quincy family was a prominent political family in

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from the mid-17th century through to the early 20th century. It is connected to the Adams political family through

Abigail Adams Abigail Adams ( ''née'' Smith; November 22, [ O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She was a founder of the United States, an ...

.Massachusetts Historical Society: Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Family Papers, 1633-1910
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Mount Wollaston Quincy ( ) is a coastal U.S. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 101,636, making ...

, first independent, then part of

Braintree, Massachusetts Braintree (), officially the Town of Braintree, is a municipality in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Although officially known as a towBraintree is a city, with a mayor-council government, mayor-council form of government, and ...

, and now the city of Quincy. The remaining pieces of the Quincy homestead are the

Josiah Quincy House The Josiah Quincy House , located at 20 Muirhead Street in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, was the country home of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Josiah Quincy I, the first in a line of six men named Josiah Quincy that ...

and the Dorothy Quincy Homestead, after the land was broken up into building lots called Wollaston Park in the 19th century and the

Josiah Quincy Mansion The Quincy Mansion , also known as the Josiah Quincy Mansion, was a summer home built by Josiah Quincy, Jr. in 1848. The mansion itself was situated where Angell Hall now stands on the campus of the Eastern Nazarene College. The mansion, once a ...

was demolished in 1969. The names of President

John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States ...

, several American towns, , Quincy House at Harvard, Quincy House in

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, and

Quincy Market Quincy Market is a historic building near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It was constructed between 1824 and 1826 and named in honor of mayor Josiah Quincy, who organized its construction without any tax or debt. The market is ...

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

are among the legacies of the Quincy family name.

Members

Edmund Quincy (1602–1636) Col. Edmund Quincy I (1602–1636), known as "the Puritan", was an English settler, soldier, colonist, planter, landowner, merchant, and politician of Massachusetts Bay Colony in what later became the United States. He is notable as the progenito ...

I, who emigrated to

1633 and settled

1635, married Judith Pares (d. 1654) ##Judith Quincy (1626–1695), married John Hull (1620–1683), leading merchant and mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony ##

Edmund Quincy (1628–1698) Edmund Quincy II (; 1628–1698) was an American Massachusetts Colonist, soldier, planter, politician, and merchant. He emigrated to colonial Massachusetts in 1633 with his father, Edmund Quincy I. Early life Edmund Quincy II was born in England ...

II, who built the

Dorothy Quincy House The Dorothy Quincy Homestead is a US National Historic Landmark at 34 Butler Road in Quincy, Massachusetts. The house was originally built by Edmund Quincy II in 1686 who had an extensive property upon which there were multiple buildings. Today ...

(1685), married Joanna Hoar (1625–1680) and remarried to Elizabeth Gookin Eliot (1645–1700) ###

Daniel Quincy Daniel Quincy (16511690), trained as a silversmith under John Hull, his uncle by marriage (Judith Quincy Hull). Daniel lived with John and Judith Hull from the age of seven and was trained in the Hull and Sanderson mint on Summer Street (Bosto ...

(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

were both named in his honor. Quincy was

' 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 The Old Ship Church (also known as the Old Ship Meetinghouse) is a Puritan Church (building), church built in 1681 in Hingham, Massachusetts, Hingham, Massachusetts. It is the only surviving 17th-century Puritan Meeting house, meetinghouse in A ...

. ##### 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 Abigail Smith is a professor in marine sciences at Otago University in Dunedin. Smith grew up in Maine and did her undergraduate studies at Colby College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology before emigrating to New Zealand to study for ...

(1744–1818), married

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...

(1735–1826), second president of the

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(1765–1813), "Nabby" married

William Stephens Smith William Stephens Smith (November 8, 1755 – June 10, 1816) was a United States representative from New York. He married Abigail "Nabby" Adams, the daughter of President John Adams, and so was a brother-in-law of President John Quincy A ...

(1755–1816) #######

(1767–1848), sixth president of the United States, married

Louisa Catherine Johnson Louisa Catherine Adams (Married and maiden names, ''née'' Johnson; February 12, 1775 – May 15, 1852) was the First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Early life Adams was born on Februar ...

(1775–1852) ########

Charles Francis Adams, Sr. Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, writer, politician, and diplomat. As United States Minister to the United Kingdom during the American Civil War, Adams was crucial to Union effor ...

(1807–1886), married Abigail Brooks (1808–1889) #########

John Quincy Adams II John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894) was an American politician who represented Quincy in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867, 1868 to 1869, 1871 to 1872, and from 1874 to 1875. Adams served as ...

(1833–1894), lawyer and politician #########

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Charles Francis Adams Jr. (May 27, 1835 – March 20, 1915) was an American author, historian, and railroad and park commissioner who served as the president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890. He served as a colonel in the Union Arm ...

(1835–1915), Civil War general, president of

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

(1884–1890) ##########

Charles Francis Adams III Charles Francis Adams III (August 2, 1866 – June 10, 1954) was an American lawyer and politician, who served as the 44th United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933. He was skipper of the Resolute which ...

(1866–1954), 44th

Secretary of the Navy The secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer () and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the United States Department of Defense. By law, the se ...

, 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) ####### 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 Cotton Tufts (30 May 1734 in Medford, Province of Massachusetts – 8 December 1815 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) was a Massachusetts physician. He was a cousin of Abigail Adams. Biography He was the grandson of Peter Tufts, who emigrated to Mas ...

(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) Edmund Quincy III (; 1681–1737) was an American merchant and judge. He was the son of Col. Edmund Quincy II (1627-1698) II and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 7 children. Four lived to adulthood, including ...

III, married Dorothy Flynt (1678–1737) ####

Edmund Quincy (1703–1788) Edmund Quincy IV (; 1703-1788) was a prominent Boston merchant during much of the 18th century. Early life and career Edmund Quincy was one of four children born to Edmund Quincy III (1681-1737) and Dorothy Flynt Quincy of Braintree (now Qui ...

IV, married Elizabeth Wendell (1704–1769) partner with brother Josiah Quincy (1710–1784) #####

Edmund Quincy (1726–1782) Edmund Quincy may refer to: *Edmund Quincy (1602–1636), settled Mount Wollaston area of Quincy, Massachusetts around 1628 *Edmund Quincy (1628–1698), colonist, Massachusetts representative, son of Edmund (1602–1636) *Edmund Quincy (1681–173 ...

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 Jonathan Sewall (August 24, 1729 – September 27, 1796) was the last Colonial attorney general of Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on August 24, 1729 to Jonathan Sewall Sr. and Mary (Payne) Sewall. Sewall's father was an unsuccessf ...

(1728–1796), last royal attorney general of Massachusetts ##### Dorothy Quincy (1747–1830), married

John Hancock John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of t ...

(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 Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian. He was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Biography Holmes was born in Woodstock, Conn ...

(1763–1837) #######

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most fa ...

(1809–1894), married Amelia Lee Jackson ########

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932.Holmes was Acting Chief Justice of the Un ...

(1841–1935), jurist ##### Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810), merchant and Continental Congress delegate from

, 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

(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 #### Colonel Josiah Quincy I (1710–1784), Revolutionary War soldier, built the

, 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 The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greate ...

#####Samuel Quincy (1735–1789), attorney and barrister, solicitor general, loyalist exile, married

Hannah Hill Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a fa ...

(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 Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 ( O.S. January 13, 1733) – May 9, 1810) was an American army officer. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Lincoln was involved in three major surrenders ...

; 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 London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, married Abigail Phillips (1745–1798), daughter of William Phillips, Sr. (1722–1804) ######

Josiah Quincy III Josiah Quincy III (; February 4, 1772 – July 1, 1864) was an American educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1805–1813), mayor of Boston (1823–1828), and President of Harvard University (182 ...

(1772–1864), president of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

(1829–1845), U.S. Representative (1805–1813), mayor of

(1823–1828), married Eliza Susan Morton (1773–1850) ####### Eliza Susan Quincy (1798–1884), eldest of "five articulate sisters", artist, archivist and historian ####### Josiah Quincy, Jr. (1802–1882), mayor of Boston (1846–1848), built the

, married Mary Jane Miller (1806–1874) ########Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829–1910), poet, writer, publicist, married Helen Frances Huntington (1831–1903) #########

Josiah Quincy (1859–1919) Josiah Quincy VI (; October 15, 1859 – September 8, 1919) was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as mayor of Boston from 1896 to 1900. His grandfather Josiah Quincy IV (known as Josiah Quincy Jr.) and great-grandfather Jos ...

, General Court representative, assistant secretary of the Navy, mayor of Boston (1895–1899), married Ellen Krebs Tyler (1862–1904) ##########Edmund Quincy (b. 1903), artist #########Helen Quincy (b. 1861) #########Frances Huntington Quincy (1870–1933), essayist and author, married Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864–1960) ##########Quincy Howe (b. 1900), news analyst, author ########## Helen Huntington Howe (b. 1905), monologuist, novelist, married Reginald Allen ##########Mark DeWolfe Howe (1906–1967), Harvard law professor, historian, biographer,

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life o ...

leader #########Mabel Quincy #########Violet Quincy ######## 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) ####### Abigail Phillips Quincy (1803–1893), last Quincy to occupy the

#######Maria Sophia Quincy (1805–1886) #######Margaret Morton Quincy (1806–1882), married

Benjamin Daniel Greene Benjamin Daniel Greene (born 29 December 1793, Demerara, British Guyana – 14 October 1862, Boston) was an American lawyer, physician, naturalist, and botanist. Biography Benjamin Daniel Greene, a son of Gardiner Greene, grew up in Boston, Massac ...

(1793–1862), traveler and botanist #######

Edmund Quincy (1808–1877) Edmond Quincy V (1808–1877) was an American author and reformer. Biography Edmund Quincy was born in Boston on February 1, 1808, the second son of Josiah Quincy III and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy. His siblings included, Josiah, Eliza, Abigail, ...

, diarist, lecturer, author,

abolitionist Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people. The British ...

, married Lucilla Pinckney Parker (1810–1860), daughter of prominent Boston merchant

Daniel Pinckney Parker Daniel Pinckney Parker (1781-1850) was a prominent merchant, shipbuilder, and businessman in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Daniel Pinckney Parker was born on August 30, 1781, in Southborough, Massachusetts, to Benjamin and Abigail ...

########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 #####Elizabeth Quincy (1757–1825), married

Benjamin Guild Benjamin Guild (1749-1792) was a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th century. He ran the "Boston Book Store" and a circulating subscription library in the 1780s and 1790s at no.59 Cornhill, "first door south of the Old-Brick Mee ...

(1749–1792) #####Ann Quincy (1763–1844), married Asa Packard (1758–1843) ###John Quincy (b.1683) ###Mary Quincy (1684–1716), married Daniel Baker (1686–1731)

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Quincy Political Family Political families of the United States American families of English ancestry