Edmund Quincy (Judge)

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Edmund Quincy (1681-1737) was the son of Edmund Quincy and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 4 children, including another Edmund Quincy and Dorothy Quincy, the grandmother of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.[1]

Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a Magistrate, Supreme Court Judge, and Colonel in the Massachusetts militia. In 1737, he was appointed to a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.[2] and traveled to London on this matter with his son Josiah. However, he contracted smallpox and died before his return to Massachusetts. The colony gave 1,000 acres (4.0 km²) in Lenox to his family as a tribute for all of his efforts.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol II", by William Richard Cutter, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York (1908), pp. 592-598.
  2. ^ "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs," Cutter, p. 593
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