Edmund Quincy (1681–1737)

Edmund Quincy III
1737 portrait by John Smibert
Born	14 Oct 1681 Braintree, Massachusetts
Died	23 Feb 1737 London, England
Cause of death	Smallpox
Resting place	Burnhill Fields Burial Grounds, London, England
Residence	Boston, Massachusetts, Braintree, Massachusetts
Education	Harvard University 1699
Occupation	Merchant, Judge
Home town	Braintree, Massachusetts
Title	Judge, Colonel, Commissioner
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Flynt (1678-1737)
Children	Edmund IV, Esther, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Josiah I, Esther, Mary
Parent(s)	Edmund Quincy (1628–1698) and Elizabeth Goodkin (1645-1700)

Edmund Quincy (/ˈkwɪnzi/; 1681–1737) III was the son of Edmund Quincy (1627-1698) II and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 7 children. Four lived to adulthood, including Edmund Quincy IV, Col. Josiah Quincy I (1710-1784) and Dorothy Quincy, who was the topic of a famous poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.^[1][2]

Life

Coat of Arms of Edmund Quincy

Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a magistrate, Supreme Court judge from 1718 until his death, and a colonel in the Massachusetts militia. In 1737, he was appointed to a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire,^[3] and traveled to London on this matter with his son Josiah Quincy I. However, he contracted smallpox and died before his return to Massachusetts. The colony built a monument at his grave in Brunhill Fields Burial Ground in London and gave 1,000 acres (4.0 km²) in Lenox to his family as a tribute for all of his efforts.

Notes and references

Quincy political family