Edmund Quincy
(1703-1788)
BIRTH
1703
PLACE
Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony
DEATH
1788
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
FAMILY
FATHER
Esther Sewall
(1738-1810)
WIFE
Elizabeth Wendell
(1704-1769)
CHILDREN
Dorothy Flynt Quincy
(1678-1737)
CHILDREN
Dorothy Quincy
(1747-1830)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Edmund Quincy (1703–1788) was a Boston merchant, magistrate and agricultural writer who graduated from Harvard in 1722. His family firm profited when its ship Bethell captured a Spanish treasure vessel in 1748, but he was declared bankrupt in 1757. He published a treatise on hemp husbandry in 1765 and served as a Suffolk justice of the peace. He married Elizabeth Wendell; their daughter Dorothy married John Hancock; his papers also document his participation in slavery.
EARLY LIFE
Edmund Quincy was born on or about an uncertain date in a place not securely identified in the surviving record. The names of the parents are not yet securely established in this database. The surviving evidence represented in this record does not always preserve the details of childhood schooling, household routine, religious instruction, apprenticeship, or youthful travel.
No distinct public profession or office for Edmund Quincy is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Edmund Quincy was a Boston merchant, magistrate and agricultural writer who graduated from Harvard in 1722. Edmund Quincy died in 1788, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Edmund Quincy (1703–1788), the Massachusetts merchant and father of Dorothy Quincy Hancock. The Harvard reference covers his class of 1722; Josiah Quincy’s memoir concerns his family. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, Volume VII: 1722–1725 — Clifford K. Shipton. [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, Junior, of Massachusetts, 1744–1775 — Josiah Quincy. [Related family biography] Find on Amazon
3. King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father — Brooke Barbier. [Related biography of his son-in-law] Find on Amazon
4. John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow Giles Unger. [Related family biography] Find on Amazon
5. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees — Mary Caroline Crawford. [Related family and local history] Find on Amazon
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