Edmund Quincy (1681–1737)
American merchant and judge (1681–1737)
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Edmund Quincy (/ˈkwɪnzi/; 1681–1737) was an American merchant and judge. He was the son of Colonel Edmund Quincy and his second wife Elizabeth. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 7 children. Four lived to adulthood, including Edmund Quincy IV and Dorothy Quincy, who was the topic of a famous poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.[1][2]
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Edmund Quincy | |
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Portrait by John Smibert, 1737 | |
| Born | 14 October 1681 |
| Died | 23 February 1737 (aged 55) London, England |
Resting place | Burnhill Fields Burial Grounds, London, England |
| Education | Harvard University 1699 |
| Occupations | Merchant and Judge |
| Title | Judge, Colonel, Commissioner |
| Spouse | Dorothy Flynt (1678–1737) |
| Children | 6 |
| Parent(s) | Edmund Quincy (1628–1698) and Elizabeth Gookin (1645-1700) |
| Relatives | Quincy political family |
Life
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] 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.
