Edmund Quincy (Judge)

Edmund Quincy (Judge)

Edmund Quincy (1681-1737) was the son of Edmund Quincy and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 4 children, including another Edmund Quincy and Dorothy Quincy, the wife of John Hancock ["Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol II", by William Richard Cutter, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York (1908), pp. 592-598.]

Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a Magistrate, Supreme Court Judge, and Colonel in the Massachusetts militia. In 1737, he was appointed to a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. ["Genealogical and Personal Memoirs," Cutter, p. 593] and traveled to London on this matter with his son Josiah. However, he contracted smallpox and died before his return to Massachusetts. The colony gave convert|1000|acre|km2 in Lenox to his family as a tribute for all of his efforts.

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