Dorothy (Quincy) Scott (1747 - 1830)
Born in Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Edmund Quincy IV
and Elizabeth (Wendell) Quincy
Sister of
Edmund Quincy V, Henry Quincy, Abraham Quincy, Elizabeth (Quincy) Sewall, Katherine Quincy, Jacob Quincy, Sarah Quincy and Esther (Quincy) Sewall
Wife of
John Hancock III
— married
(to ) in Thaddeus Burr Mansion, Fairfield, Connecticut
Wife of
James Scott
— married
(to ) [location unknown]
Mother of
Lydia Henchman Hancock and
John George Washington Hancock
Died in Boston, Massachusetts
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Biography
Dorothy Scott (1747-1830), daughter of Justice Edmund Quincy of Massachusetts, married the famous John Hancock in 1775.
With Hancock she had two children, and neither lived to see their teens. After Hancock's death, she was married to Captain James Scott and lived with him in New Hampshire until his death in 1809. She then moved back to her hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, where she lived until her death.
Contemporary chroniclers record that Dorothy Scott was beautiful, well spoken, intelligent, strong-willed, and a great hostess.
Birth
Dorothy Quincy was born 10 May 1747 to Edmund Quincy IV and his wife Elizabeth Wendell.
Death
Dorothy died in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 February 1830. [1]
Marriage
Dorothy was first married to the Honorable John Hancock on 28 August 1775 in Fairfield, Connecticut.[2] After his death she married James Scott in 1796.
Sources
- ↑ Holly, H. Hobart. Descendants of Edmund Quincy 1602-1637 who settled in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts in 1635. Quincy, Massachusetts: Quincy Historical Society; 1977. pg 6.
- ↑ Child, Frank Samuel. An Old New England Church, Established Religion in Connecticut (Fairfield Historical Society, Fairfield, Conn., 1910) Page 154
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