Dorothy Quincy Hancock
BIRTH
May 10, 1747
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
February 3, 1830
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER:
Edmund Quincy
(1703-1788)
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Hancock, Dorothy Quincy
(1747-1830)
Dorothy Quincy Hancock Scott was an American hostess, daughter of Justice Edmund Quincy of Braintree and Boston, and the wife of Founding Father John Hancock. Her aunt, also named Dorothy Quincy, was the subject of Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem Dorothy Q.
GRAVE:
MARKER
Granary Burying Ground
Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA
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HUSBAND
John Hancock
(1737-1793)
Lydia Henchman Hancock
(1776-1777)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Old South Meeting House | 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108 | MUSEUM | ||
Lexington Battle Green | 1625 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02421 | MARKER | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK | ||
Hancock Clarke House | 36 Hancock St, Lexington, MA 02420 | MUSEUM | ||
Burr Homestead Marker | 698 Old Post Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824 | MARKER |
DIED:
Boston, Massachusetts
Feb 3, 1830
Dorothy Quincy was raised at the Quincy Homestead in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts. The house in which she lived has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is known as the Dorothy Quincy House. She married John Hancock, who presided at the formation of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and was a two-time Governor of Massachusetts, in 1775.
Their first child, Lydia Henchman Hancock was born in 1776 and died ten months later. In 1778, their son, John George Washington Hancock, was born and died in 1787 while ice skating on a pond in Milton, Massachusetts when he fell through the ice and drowned.
In 1796, after Hancock's death in 1793, Quincy married Captain James Scott (1742–1809), who had been employed by Hancock as a captain in his trading ventures with England. They lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and had no children together. When Captain Scott died, Dorothy moved back into the Hancock Mansionat 30 Beacon Street in Boston for about 10 years. After that, she lived at 4 Federal Street in Boston.