Quincy political family

Political family in Massachusetts, US

Quincy

Political family

Coat of Arms of Edmund Quincy, family patriarch

Country| United States
Current region| New England
Place of origin| Braintree, Massachusetts
Founder| Edmund Quincy
Members| See below
Connected families| Adams
Estate(s)| Mount Wollaston

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 Mount Wollaston, first independent, then part of Braintree, Massachusetts, and now the city of Quincy. The remaining pieces of the Quincy homestead are the Josiah Quincy House 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 was demolished in 1969.

The names of President John Quincy Adams, several American towns, USS Quincy, Quincy House at Harvard, Quincy House in Washington, D.C., and Quincy Market in Boston are among the legacies of the Quincy family name.

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* 1824
* election
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* 1832
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* Congressional career
* Abolitionism
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1. Edmund Quincy (1602–1636) I, who emigrated to Boston 1633 and settled Mount Wollaston 1635, married Judith Pares (d. 1654)
1. Judith Quincy (1626–1695), married John Hull (1624–1683), merchant and Massachusetts Bay Colony politician
2. Edmund Quincy (1628–1698) II, who built the Dorothy Quincy House (1685), married Joanna Hoar (1625–1680) and remarried to Elizabeth Gookin Eliot (1645–1700)
1. Daniel Quincy (1651–1690), Boston merchant and ker, married Anna Shephard (1663–1708)
1. Anna Quincy (1685–1717), married John Holman (1679–1759)
2. 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.
1. Norton Quincy (1716–1801), public servant, recluse, married Martha Salisbury (1727–1748)
2. Anna Quincy (1719–1799), married John Thaxter (1721–1802) of Hingham
3. Elizabeth Quincy (1721–1775), married the Reverend William Smith (1707–1783) of the First Church of Weymouth
1. Mary Smith (1741–1811), married Richard Cranch (1726–1811)
2. Abigail Smith (1744–1818), married John Adams (1735–1826), second president of the United States
1. Abigail Adams (1765–1813), "Nabby" married William Stephens Smith (1755–1816)
2. John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth president of the United States, married Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775–1852)
1. Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), married Abigail Brooks (1808–1889)
1. John Quincy Adams II (1833–1894), lawyer and politician
2. Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915), Civil War general, president of Union Pacific Railroad (1884–1890)
1. Charles Francis Adams III (1866–1954), 44th Secretary of the Navy, mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts
3. Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), married Marian Hooper (1843–1885)
4. Mary Gardiner Adams (1845–1928), married Henry Parker Quincy (1838–1899)
3. Susanna Boylston Adams (1768–1770)
4. Charles Adams (1770–1800), married Sarah Smith
5. Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), Massachusetts Representative, justice, married Ann Harrod
3. William Smith (1746–1787), married Catherine Louise Salmon (1749–1824)
4. Elizabeth Smith (1750–1815), married John Shaw (1748–1794), remarried to Stephen Peabody (1741–1819)
4. Lucy Quincy (1729–1785), married Cotton Tufts (1732–1815)
2. John Quincy (1652–1674)
3. Joanna Quincy (1654-1695), married Lieut. David Hobart (1651-1717) of Hingham
4. Judith Quincy (1655–1679), married John Rayner (1643–1676)
5. Ruth Quincy (1658–1698), married John Hunt
6. Edmund Quincy (1681–1737) III, married Dorothy Flynt (1678–1737)
1. Edmund Quincy (1703–1788) IV, married Elizabeth Wendell (1704–1769) partner with brother Josiah Quincy (1710–1784)
1. Edmund Quincy (1726–1782) V, businessman and land developer, married Anna Huske, remarried to Mehitabel Temple, remarried to Hannah Gannett
2. Henry Quincy (1727–1780), married Mary Salter, remarried to Eunice Newell
3. Abraham Quincy (1728–1756)
4. Elizabeth Quincy (1729–1770), married Samuel Sewall (1715–1771)
5. Katherine Quincy (b. 1733)
6. Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734–1773), married Elizabeth Williams
7. Sarah Quincy (1736–1790), married General William Greenleaf
8. Esther Quincy (1738–1810), married Jonathan Sewall (1728–1796), last royal attorney general of Massachusetts
9. Dorothy Quincy (1747–1830), married John Hancock (1737–1793), remarried to Captain James Scott (1746–1809)
2. Elizabeth Quincy (1706–1746), married John Wendell (1703–1762)
3. Dorothy Quincy (1709–1762), "Dorothy Q" of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., married Edward Jackson (1707–1757), Boston merchant and manufacturer
1. Mary Jackson (1740–1804), married Oliver Wendell (1733–1818)
1. Sarah Wendell married the Reverend Abiel Holmes (1763–1837)
1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), married Amelia Lee Jackson
1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), jurist
2. Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810), merchant and Continental Congress delegate from Massachusetts, married Sarah Barnard (d. 1770), remarried to Hannah Tracy (d. 1797)
1. Edward Jackson (1768–1777)
2. Henry Jackson (1774–1806), married Hannah Swett (1774–1850)
3. Charles Jackson (1775–1855), married Amelia Lee(d. 1808), remarried to Frances Cabot
1. Amelia Lee Jackson (d. 1888), married Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894)
4. Hannah Jackson, married Francis Cabot Lowell (1775–1817)
5. Sarah Jackson, married John Gardner (1770–1825)
6. Dr. James Jackson (1777–1867), married Elizabeth Cabot, remarried to Sarah Cabot
7. Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780–1847), married Lydia Cabot
4. 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)
1. Edmund Quincy (1733–1768), Boston merchant died at sea in West Indies
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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)
1. 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)
1. Eliza Susan Quincy (1798–1884), eldest of "five articulate sisters", artist, archivist and historian
2. Josiah Quincy Jr. (1802–1882), mayor of Boston (1846–1848), built the Josiah Quincy Mansion, married Mary Jane Miller (1806–1874)
1. Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829–1910), poet, writer, publicist, married Helen Frances Huntington (1831–1903)
1. Josiah Quincy (1859–1919), General Court representative, assistant secretary of the Navy, mayor of Boston (1895–1899), married Ellen Krebs Tyler (1862–1904)
1. Edmund Quincy [d] (1903–1997), artist[4]
2. Helen Quincy (b. 1861)
3. Frances Huntington Quincy (1870–1933), essayist and author, married Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864–1960)
1. Quincy Howe (1900–1977), news analyst, author
2. Helen Huntington Howe (1905–1975), monologuist, novelist, married Reginald Allen
3. Mark DeWolfe Howe (1906–1967), Harvard law professor, historian, biographer, civil rights leader
4. Mabel Quincy
5. Violet Quincy
2. Samuel Miller Quincy (1833–1887), lawyer, historian, Civil War soldier, and 28th mayor of New Orleans (May 5, 1865 – June 8, 1865)
3. Mary Apthorp Quincy (1834–1883), married Benjamin Apthorp Gould
1. Susan Quincy Gould (b. 1862)
2. Lucretia Gould (b. 1864)
3. Alice Bache Gould (b. 1868)
4. Benjamin Apthorp Gould (b. 1870)
5. Maria Gould (b. 1872)
3. Abigail Phillips Quincy (1803–1893), last Quincy to occupy the Josiah Quincy House
4. Maria Sophia Quincy (1805–1886)
5. Margaret Morton Quincy (1806–1882), married Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793–1862), traveler and botanist
6. Edmund Quincy (1808–1877), diarist, lecturer, author, abolitionist, married Lucilla Pinckney Parker (1810–1860), daughter of prominent Boston merchant Daniel Pinckney Parker
1. Edmund Quincy (1834–1894), civil engineer
2. Henry Parker Quincy (1838–1899), Harvard MD, "anatomical draughtsman", married Mary Gardiner Adams (1845–1928)
3. Mary Quincy (b. 1841)
7. 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
5. Elizabeth Quincy (1757–1825), married Benjamin Guild (1749–1792)
6. Ann Quincy (1763–1844), married Asa Packard (1758–1843)
7. John Quincy (b.1683)
8. Mary Quincy (1684–1716), married Daniel Baker (1686–1731)

## Notes and references

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1. ^ Pepe, William J.; Elaine A. Pepe (2008). Postcard History Series: Quincy. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738555393.
2. ^ Cameron, James R. (1968). Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House.
3. ^ "Massachusetts Historical Society: Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Family Papers, 1633-1910". Archived from the original on 2013-11-26. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
4. ^ "Edmund Quincy (1903–1997)". Dumbarton Oaks. 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2023-07-27.

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John Quincy Adams

* U.S. Representative for MA–8 (1843–1848)
* U.S. Representative for MA–12 (1833–1843)
* U.S. Representative for MA–11 (1831–1833)
* 6th President of the United States (1825–1829)
* 8th United States Secretary of State (1817–1825)
* U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1814–1817)
* U.S. Minister to Russia (1809–1814)
* U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1803–1808)
* U.S. Minister to Prussia (1797–1801)
* U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1794–1797)

Presidency|

* Inauguration
* American System
* Internal improvements
* Tariff of 1828
* First Treaty of Prairie du Chien
* Treaty of Fond du Lac
* Treaty of Limits
* United States Naval Observatory
* State of the Union Address, 1825
* 1827
* 1828
* Federal judiciary appointments

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* Supreme Court nomination
* Monroe Doctrine, author
* Treaty of Ghent
* Adams–Onís Treaty
* Treaty of 1818
* Tariff of 1832
* Smithsonian Institution
* United States v. The Amistad
* Mendi Bible
* President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* President, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences

Writings|

* Lifelong diary
* Massachusetts Historical Society holdings
* Adams Papers Editorial Project

Life and
homes|

* Early life
* Abigail Adams Cairn
* John Quincy Adams and abolitionism
* Adams National Historical Park
* Birthplace and family home
* Peacefield
* Stone Library
* United First Parish Church and gravesite

Electoral history|

* Senate
* 1803
* 1808
* Presidential runs
* 1824
* Corrupt Bargain
* 1828

Legacy|

* Bibliography
* Adams Memorial
* Adams House at Harvard University
* U.S. Postage stamps
* Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar
* Mount Quincy Adams
* USS President Adams (1941)
* USS John Adams (1963)
* Oyster-Adams Bilingual School

Popular
culture|

* Profiles in Courage (1957 book)
* 1965 television series)
* The Adams Chronicles (1976 miniseries)
* Mutiny on the Amistad (1987 book)
* Amistad (1997 film)
* John Adams (2001 book
* 2008 miniseries)

Adams political family
Quincy family|

* Louisa Adams (wife)
* George Washington Adams (son)
* Charles Francis Adams Sr. (son)
* John Adams II (son)
* Henry Adams (grandson)
* Brooks Adams (grandson)
* John Quincy Adams II (grandson)
* John Adams
* father
* presidency
* Abigail Adams
* mother
* First Lady
* Quincy political family
* Abigail Adams Smith (sister)
* Charles Adams (brother)
* Thomas Boylston Adams (brother)
* John Adams Sr. (grandfather)
* Susanna Boylston (grandmother)
* John Quincy (great-grandfather)

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* National Republican Party
* Republicanism
* Quincy Patriot
* John Quincy Adams (Bingham)

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