Quincys

His wife, Abigail Adams, was a member of the Quincys, a prestigious Massachusetts family.

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She was the youngest daughter of the distinguished Colonel Joseph May, who had won his rank in the War of Independence, and Dorothy Sewall May, a cousin of the Quincys and the Hancocks.

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On her mother's side, she was descended from the Quincys, a well-known political family in the Massachusetts Colony, and a cousin of Dorothy Quincy, wife of John Hancock.

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While townspeople all along the river are bracing for the flood, the people of the twin Quincys labor under a peculiar sort of fear.

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Count dEstaing has been exceeding polite to me, he took perticulir care to see me, sending an officer to request I would meet him at Col. [Quincys] as it was inconvenient to be at a greater

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Company with Mr. Winthrop, the two Quincys and the two Sullivans.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1774 1963

About 2 months ago, I had occasion to send Jonathan of an errant to my unkle Quincys (the other Horse being a plowing).

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Seven years later the town of Boston granted him land in the town that was afterward known as Braintree, Massachusetts, where he built the mansion that became the home of succeeding generations of Quincys, from whom the North

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For the ships that were to be built would never have pleased him as well as his own canoe; the granite buildings would have stifled him; and the zealous Adamses and the high-minded Quincys and Sewalls and all the rest would have bored him horribly.

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Adams would have liked to begin afresh with the Limulus and Lepidosteus in the waters of Braintree, side by side with Adamses and Quincys and Harvard College, all unchanged and unchangeable since archaic time; but what purpose would it serve?

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