Edmund Quincy, IV

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Edmund Quincy, IV

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Birthplace: Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Death: July 04, 1788 (85)
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Judge Edmund Quincy and Dorothy Quincy
Husband of Elizabeth Quincy and Anna Quincy
Father of Edmund Quincy, V; Henry Quincy; Abraham Quincy; Elizabeth Sewall; Katherine Quincy and 4 others
Brother of Esther Quincy; Elizabeth Wendell; Dorothy Jackson; Col. Josiah Quincy; Mary Quincy, Died Young and 2 others

Occupation: Merchant in Boston; inherited Homestead, Judge
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About Edmund Quincy, IV

Edmund Quincy established the extensive property on which the Dorothy Quincy Homestead stands. It is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Biography

Edmund Quincy was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, on June 13, 1703, the son of Edmund Quincy and Dorothy Flynt. After graduating from Harvard College in 1722, he lived in Boston, where he and his brother Josiah started a merchant firm. When the firm broke up in 1750, Edmund Quincy joined two of his sons in a new merchant partnership, which went bankrupt in 1757. Quincy left Boston for Lancaster in 1775, and he later lived in Medfield and Newton, where he died on July 4, 1788.

Edmund Quincy and his first wife, Elizabeth Wendell, married on April 15, 1725. Their children included Henry (d. 1780), Dorothy ("Dolly"), Esther, Elizabeth, Edmund, Abraham, and Jacob.

After Wendell's 1769 death, Edmund Quincy married Anna Gerrish (d. 1787) on January 13, 1785.

Dorothy Quincy married prominent Massachusetts statesman John Hancock (1737-1793).


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Edmund Quincy, IV's Timeline

1703
June 13, 1703
Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
1726
February 6, 1726
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
1727
January 20, 1727
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1728
July 25, 1728
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1729
1729
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1733
May 30, 1733
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1734
October 2, 1734
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1736
October 2, 1736
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1738
November 27, 1738
Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States