Elizabeth Wendell
(1704-1769)
BIRTH
1704
PLACE
DEATH
1769
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Esther Sewall
(1738-1810)
HUSBAND
Edmund Quincy
(1703-1788)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704–1769) was the daughter of Boston merchant Abraham Wendell and Katerina DeKey. She married merchant and magistrate Edmund Quincy in 1725. Their children included Esther Sewall and Dorothy, later John Hancock’s wife. Letters sent to Elizabeth by her husband, father and son Jacob survive in the Massachusetts Historical Society’s family papers, alongside her signatures as a witness and a 1769 funeral procession order. They record family affairs.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Wendell was born 1704. The external genealogical record identifies Abraham Wendell and Catharina De Key as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Wendell 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. Elizabeth Wendell died 1769. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Wendell died in 1769. Elizabeth Wendell Quincy was the daughter of Boston merchant Abraham Wendell and Katerina DeKey. She married merchant and magistrate Edmund Quincy in 1725. Their children included Esther Sewall and Dorothy, later John Hancock’s wife. Letters sent to Elizabeth by her husband, father and son Jacob survive in the Massachusetts Historical Society’s family papers, alongside her signatures as a witness and a 1769 funeral procession order. They record family affairs. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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