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About Edmund Quincy, "The Puritan"
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 progenitor of the prestigious Quincy family.
England
Born 1602 in Wigsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England, Edmund's family may have been connected with the Earls of Winchester in the 13th century.[1] The surname is Anglo-Norman. One descendant named Eliza Susan Quincy wrote in 1844 that Edmund once had "a genealogical account of his family, which traced their descent from the time of the Norman Conquest," which Abigail Adams apparently owned at one time, as well, but after a century in America it "was then unfortunately borrowed and never returned and has now been lost for more than 50 years." His parents were almost certainly Edmund Quincy (baptised 1559, died 1627) and Anne Palmer (married 1529).[2] He is known to have lived in Thorpe[2] in Achurch, Northamptonshire on an estate inherited from his father.[3] He married Judith Pares in 1623 and had two children: Judith, born in 1626, and Edmund, born in 1628.[4] He appears to have converted to Puritanism by the time of the birth of his son.[3]
Emigration
Quincy came to Massachusetts for the first time in 1628, and emigrated to America along with the Reverend John Cotton on a ship called Griffin[2] with his family and six servants, arriving in Boston Harbor 4 September 1633.[5] The Quincys' names appear in the records of the First Church from the following year.[6] On September 10, 1634, Quincy was the first person named to a committee, appointed by the Puritan colonists, to assess and raise the funds necessary to purchase the Shawmut Peninsula from William Blaxton.[5][6] The following May, he was elected to represent the town of Boston at the first Massachusetts General Court held in Massachusetts Bay Colony.[6]
Mount Wollaston
In 1635, a thousand acres of land in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts was sold by the Massachusett Indians to Quincy and William Coddington; the town of Boston confirmed the sale in 1636.[5][7] The property consisted of a broad strip of land along the sea, extending somewhat beyond the boundaries of the settlement established by Captain Wollaston and Thomas Morton in 1625. Around the time of the purchase, Quincy built a one-story home on this land which would eventually develop into the Dorothy Quincy House.[8] He died shortly thereafter, in 1636 or 1637.
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Edmund Quincy was born in 1602 in Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire. He was the son of Edmund Quincy and Anne Palmer. Edmund Quincy was baptised on 30 May 1602 at Lilford, Northamptonshire. He married Judith Pares on 14 July 1623 in Lilford, Northamptonshire. In 1628 Sprague states that there is no evidence that he first went went to Massachusetts and returned to England in order to sail again with his family in 1633 as recorded in the Register. Edmund Quincy and Judith Pares emmigrated on 4 September 1633 to Boston with their two children on the Griffin, a ship of some 300 tons taking about eight weeks from the Downs with about 200 people. They came with three famous clergymen - John Cotton, Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone. Edmund Quincy died circa 1639 in Mount Wollaston, Braintree, the date of the death of Edmund Quincy, given in most secondary sources as 1635, is somewhat of a mystery. He was certainly alive on 9 January 1636/7, when he was explicitly stated by the Boston selectmen to be one of five men who had on that day laid out a farm at Braintree. On 9 April 1639, in a sale of land by William Coddington to William Tyng, "Judith Quinsey" is given as one of the abutters; this would normally indicate that Edmund Quincy had died and his widow was now the owner of the land. But on 13 January 1639/40 "Edmund Quinsey" witnessed a deed; Edmund Quincy, the son of the immigrant, would not yet be twelve years old on this date, and so this witness must be the immigrant. Finally, in the transfer of another parcel of land at Braintree by Edward Hutchinson, son of William Hutchinson, to William Tyng, "Edmund Quinsey" was given as an abutter; this document was not dated, but appears among other items of April 1641.
The last of these items may be dismissed, as the date is not certain, and a deed will frequently name abutters who are long deceased. The difficulty arises with the records of 9 April 1639 and 13 January 1639/40, which if taken at face value cannot be reconciled. It should not have been possible for Judith Quincy to appear by error as abutter on 9 April 1639 if her husband were still alive, so the assumption made here is that one of these two documents has been misdated, but that the death of Edmund Quincy must have taken place at about this time.
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Edmund QUINCY View Tree Gender Male Birth 1602 Achurch, Wigsthorpe, North Hants, England Christening 30 May 1602 Achurch, Wigsthorpe, North Hants, England Death 17 July 1623 Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts PARENTS Father Edmund QUINCY Mother Ann PALMER MARRIAGES (1) Spouse Judith PARES Marriage 14 July 1623 , , England CITING THIS RECORD "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MWZB-PBV : accessed 2015-05-12), entry for Edmund QUINCY. SUBMITTED BY (6) lrferrin670387 1/19/2011 mfamilies1280301 1/19/2011 pajohnson2545226 1/19/2011 lmwilson2267558 1/19/2011 jfadema3131180 1/19/2011 bklotz2731754 1/19/2011 ANCESTRAL FILE Ancestral File Number S014-45
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Edmund Quincy, "The Puritan"'s Timeline
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May 30, 1602
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Northamptonshire, England
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May 30, 1602
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Lilford,Northamptonshire,England
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September 3, 1626
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England
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March 15, 1628
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Thorpe, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1639
Age 36
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Mt. Wallaston, Massachusetts, United States
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April 5, 1652
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Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
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