The Josiah Quincy Line

Edmund Quincy (1628-1698), emigrated to America in 1633 with his father (Edmund, 1st), local political leader, built the Dorothy Quincy House
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Edmund Quincy (1681-1738)
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Josiah Quincy (1710-1784), "colonel," built the Josiah Quincy House in 1770
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Josiah Quincy, Jr. (1744-1775), "The Great Patriot"
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Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), mayor of Boston, president of Harvard University--daughter: Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884), artist and family historian
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Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), built the Quincy Mansion (formerly stood on Eastern Nazarene College's campus)
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Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910), poet, essayist
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Josiah Quincy (1859-1919), last Quincy to own the Josiah Quincy House, social reformer


The following bibliography was compiled by Jonathan Atwater, Adam Berg, Ace Carradine, David Guevara, and Professor Stephens

(If not otherwise indicated, most linked books are on Google Books.)

Adams, Charles Francis. History of Braintree, Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1891.

________. The Works of John Adams, Volume II . Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1865.

Adams, Henry, ed. Documents Relating to New-England Federalism. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905.

________. The Education of Henry Adams. Boston: Houghton & Mifflin Company, 1918.  Digitized by American Studies at the University of Virginia.

Adams, John. “Draft of a Letter to Colonel Quincy.” Summer 1759. Massachusetts Historical Society.

"Adams Papers, Digital Edition." Massachusetts Historical Society.

Blodgett, Geoffrey T. "Josiah Quincy: Brahmin Democrat." New England Quarterly
(December, 1965): 435-453.

Cameron, James R. The Public Service of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1802-1882. Quincy, Mass.: The Quincy Cooperative Bank, 1964.

Coquillette, Daniel R. and and Neil Longley York, eds. Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior, Volumes 1-5. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007-2010.

Crocker, Mathew H. The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908.

Entries on the Quincys, Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History, from 458 A. D. to 1906 1906. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907. 357-363.

Federal Writers’ Project. Massachusetts: A Guide to its Places and People. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1937.

Hewlett, Richard G. "Josiah Quincy: Reform Mayor of Boston." New England Quarterly (June, 1951): 179-196.

Holmes family, Quincy family, Upham family, and Wendell family papers. Massachusetts Historical Society.

McCaughey, Robert A. Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864: The Last Federalist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Munroe, James Phinney. The New England Conscience: With Typical Examples. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1915.

Entries on The Quincys, Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History, from 458 A. D. to 1906. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907. 357-363.

Quincy, Edmund. Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Company, 1869.

Quincy, Edmund, ed. Speeches Delivered in the Congress of the United States: By Josiah Quincy, 1805-1813.  Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874.

Quincy, Eliza Susan. "Josiah Quincy Senior." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 3 (1879): 182-186.

Quincy, Josiah, Jr. Journal of Josiah Quincy, Jr. 1773. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1916.

"QUINCY, Josiah, (1772 - 1864)." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

"Josiah Quincy (1825-1845)." From Harvard's Unitarian Presidents. Herbert F. Vetter, ed. Harvardsquarelibrary.org.

Quincy, Josiah. The Duty of Conservative Whigs in the Present Crisis: A Letter to the Hon. Rufus Choate. Boston: William A. Hall, 1856.

Quincy, Josiah. Figures of the Past from the Leaves of Old Journals. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910.

Quincy, Josiah. The History of the Boston Athenæum, with Biographical Notices of its Deceased Founders. Cambridge, Mass.: Metcalf and Company, 1851.

Quincy, Josiah Jr. “Letter to Colonel Quincy.” March 22, 1770. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Quincy, Josiah. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee, and Company, 1860.

Quincy, Josiah. A Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston during Two Centuries . . . Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1852.

Quincy, Josiah. The History of Harvard University, Volume 1. Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, 1840; Volume II. 1860.

Quincy, Josiah III. Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, Junior, of Massachusetts Bay, 1744-1775. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1875.

Quincy, Josiah Phillips. The Protection of Majorities: or, Considerations Relating to Electoral Reform. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876.

Wilson, Daniel Munro. Quincy, Old Braintree, and Merry-Mount. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1906.

________. Where American Independence Began: Quincy, Its Famous Group of Patriots. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902.

_________with Charles Francis Adams. John Quincy: Master of Mount Wollaston . . . Boston: Quincy Historical Society, 1909.

Winsor, Justin. The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886.




Quincy Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society

Read ENC history professor James R. Cameron's The Public Service of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1802-1882

Adams National Historical Park

Museum of Fine Arts, Colonial America

Quincy Market

History Department, Eastern Nazarene College






















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