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Edmund Quincy (1602-1636) was an ancestor of Abigail Adams, wife of second U.S. president John Adams, and of Dorothy Scott, wife of the statesman John Hancock. [1]
Baptized 30 May 1602 in Lilford, Northamptonshire, England, Edmund Quincy I was baptized May 30, 1602 at St. Peter in Lilford, Northampton, England, son of Edmond Quincy.[2][3][4][5]
One descendant named Eliza Susan Quincy wrote in 1844 that "His parents were almost certainly Edmund Quincy (baptised 1559, died 1627) and Anne Palmer (married 14 Oct 1593)[6] which is now known to be correct.
He is known to have lived in Thorpe in Achurch, Northamptonshire on an estate inherited from his father.[7][5]
He married July 14, 1623 at Lilford, County Northampton, England to Judith Pares of Bythorpe, County Huntingdon.[8][9][10]
They had two children: Judith, born in 1626, and Edmund, born in 1628.[11][5]
He appears to have converted to Puritanism by the time of the birth of his son.[12][13]
Edmund Quincy and his wife arrived in New England with the Rev. John Cotton. William Wardell, his brother Thomas, and their wives left Downs, England and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts on September 3, 1633 onboard the Griffin. They travelled to New England as servants of Edmund Quincy, as on William’s admission to Boston church 9 February 1634, he is called "one of our brother Edmond Quincy's servants.[14]
Quincy was made a freeman and deputy March 4, 1633/34. In December 1635 he received jointly with William Coddington a large grant of land at Mount Wollaston, then part of Boston and now in Quincy, MA. His share was about 400 acres. His farmhouse that stood on what is now the southeast corner of Hancock Street and Butler Road was demolished about 1897. The site is marked by a granite monument.[15]
He died shortly thereafter, about 1639 per Anderson's "Great Migration" but there is some mystery surrounding this date. He was proven alive 9 Jan 1636/37 when he was chosen as a selectman to help lay out Braintree, his wife was listed as the owner of their property on 9 Apr 1639 in a neighbor's deed which would normally indicate Edmund was dead, but then he apparently witnessed a deed on 13 Jan 1639/40 when son Edmund was only 12, so could not have been the witness. These latter two documents seem to contradict each other since by convention Edmund would have been listed as the property owner on 9 Apr 1639 if he were alive. At any rate, he definitely died after 9 Jan 1636/37.[16]
His widow, Judith married (2nd) Moses Paine by 1643. After his death she married (3rd) Robert Hull toward the end of 1646. She died at Boston on March 29, 1654.[17]
A family lineage for the Quincy family comes from an unsourced vanity publication, "Colonial Families of the United States of America...etc" [18] which states (unsourced) a family lineage including heraldic arms. This publication states that it was assembled from materials in possession of the various family descendants as well as from public records, so this marriage date should be treated with caution.
A profile for Edmund Chancey-29 was set up with the following facts, none of them supported by actual sources:
The sourcing given was ancestry.com family trees which linked only to other unsourced family trees or valueless auto-aggregated collections made up of unsourced user submissions such as Family Data Collection, Millenium File or FindaGrave. In some cases those trees no longer exist. Examples include:
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Categories: Puritan Great Migration
really nice work.
I've not been able to find any source yet supporting any of the data on the profiles of Thomas Chancey-30 and Alice Robins-389 and their profile says they were married 1614 but son Edmund was born 1602. If you've found actual sources for any of their information that would be great to know before I carry out the disconnect and merge. I did check the ancestry tree-behind-the-tree that is a supposed source for Thomas Chancey, it actually says Thomas died in 1590 at age 10 days based on a London burial, and then shows him marrying Alice Robins 24 years later (unsourced) with their son Edmund born (unsourced) at Isle of Wight in 1609 so all things considered, I think that tree is best disregarded. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/71000573/person/150061061826/facts
edited by Brad Stauf
You are more than welcome to work on them. See the link to the page I used to track the duplicates. Send me a request and I'll add you. Let me a note if you have any questions. I just don't have time to work on them right now. Thanks for working on them. There are numerous spelling variations with this family.
I discovered that Edmund Quincy has a featured article in R. C. Anderson's "Great Migration Begins." He is eligible to be in WikiTree's Puritan Great Migration Project.
I will add the project box.