1639-1930
Shelflist to the Collection
Abstract
This collection consists of correspondence, diaries, journals, genealogical records, commonplace-books, notes on sermons, lectures, debates, essays, drawings, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers of the Quincy family.
Biographical Sketches
Below are brief biographical sketches of the Quincy family members most heavily represented in this collection, arranged by date of birth.
Edmund Quincy (1628-1698)
Son of Edmund Quincy (1602-ca. 1636) and Judith Pares Quincy (d. 1654); came to America, 1633; justice of the peace, representative from Braintree in General Court; colonel of Suffolk militia; member of Council of Safety during the Andros troubles; built first Quincy mansion ("Dorothy Q" house) in 1680s; married first in 1648? Joanna Hoar (1625-1680); married second in 1680 Elizabeth Gookin Eliot (1645-1700).
Edmund Quincy (1681-1738)
Son of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) and Elizabeth Gookin Eliot Quincy (1645-1700); merchant of Braintree and Boston; Harvard 1699; selectman, justice of the peace, colonel of militia, representative in the General Court, and member of Council; justice of the Superior Court of Judicature; left an estate of over £14,000; married in 1701 Dorothy Flynt (1678-1737).
John Quincy (1689-1767)
Son of Daniel Quincy (1651-1690) and Anna Shepard Quincy (1663-1708); of Mount Wollaston, where he built the second Quincy homestead, ca. 1716; Harvard 1708; selectman and perennial moderator of Braintree town meetings; colonel of Suffolk militia; representative in General Court for nearly 40 years; Speaker, 1729-1740; member of Council; guardian of the Ponkapoags; eponym of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and of the town (later city) of Quincy; married in 1715 Elizabeth Norton (1696-1769).
Edmund Quincy (1703-1788)
Son of Edmund Quincy (1681-1738) and Dorothy Flynt Quincy (1678-1737); of Braintree and Boston; Harvard 1722; called "Squire" or "Justice" Quincy; partner in family firm whose ship Bethell in 1748 captured a Spanish treasure vessel and made all the partners rich; justice of the peace and of the quorum; suffered financial reverses and declared bankrupt, 1757; patriot; writer on husbandry; married first in 1725 Elizabeth Wendell (1704-1769); married second Anna Gerrish (1719-1787).
Henry Quincy (1727-1780)
Son of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769); married first in 1748 Mary Salter; married second in 1759 Eunice Newell.
Edmund Quincy (1733-1768)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Hannah Sturgis Quincy (1712-1755); Harvard 1752; Boston merchant; died at sea in the West Indies.
Samuel Quincy (1735-1789)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Hannah Sturgis Quincy (1712-1755); Harvard 1754; attorney and barrister; solicitor general of the province; loyalist exile; married first in 1761 Hannah Hill (1734-1782); married second in 1787 Mary Ann Chadwell.
Josiah Quincy (1744-1775)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Hannah Sturgis Quincy (1712-1755); "the Patriot"; Harvard 1763; attorney; newspaper propagandist and pamphleteer; died at sea returning from London on a mission for the Massachusetts patriots; married in 1769 Abigail Phillips (1745-1798).
John Williams Quincy (1769-1834)
Son of Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773) and Elizabeth Williams Quincy; married in 1794 Abigail Atkins.
Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1744-1775) and Abigail Phillips Quincy (1745-1798); called "the great Mayor" and "the President"; Harvard 1790; Federalist congressman, state senator, and representative; mayor of Boston, 1823-1828; president of Harvard, 1829-1845; orator, scientific farmer, and prolific author on many subjects, including The History of Harvard University, 1840; married in 1797 Eliza Susan Morton (1773-1850).
Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884)
Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850); eldest of the five "articulate sisters"; artist; family archivist and historian.
Josiah Quincy (1802-1882)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850); of Boston and Quincy; Harvard 1821; held local and state offices; mayor of Boston, 1846-1848; promoter of railroads and of cooperative banks for workingmen; built the last Quincy mansion in Quincy; author of Figures of the Past, 1876; married in 1827 Mary Jane Miller (1806-1874).
Maria Sophia Quincy (1805-1886)
Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850).
Margaret Morton Quincy Greene (1806-1882)
Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850); married in 1826 Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793-1862; Harvard 1812).
Edmund Quincy (1808-1877)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850); of Quincy and Dedham; Harvard 1827; diarist, lecturer, and author of successful fiction in the Hawthorne mode and an immense amount of journalism on political and other topics; a leader in the Garrison wing of the abolitionist movement; married in 1833 Lucilla Pinckney Parker (1810-1860).
Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston (1812-1899)
Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850); youngest of the "articulate sisters"; published a volume of Verses, 1863; married in 1840 Robert Cassie Waterston (1812-1893); two children, both of whom died young.
Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) and Mary Jane Miller Quincy (1806-1874); of Boston and Quincy; Harvard 1850; poet, short-story writer, and publicist; married in 1858 Helen Frances Huntington (1831-1903).
Helen Frances Huntington Quincy (1831-1903)
Wife of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910); daughter of Judge Charles Phelps Huntington of Northampton, Mass.
Samuel Miller Quincy (1832-1887)
Son of Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) and Mary Jane Miller Quincy (1806-1874); of Quincy and Boston; Harvard 1852; lawyer and legal historian; commanded African American troops in the Union Army; wounded, captured, imprisoned, and exchanged; breveted brigadier general, 1865.
Edmund Quincy (1834-1894)
Son of Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) and Lucilla Pinckney Parker Quincy (1810-1860); Harvard (Lawrence Scientific School) 1856; civil engineer.
Henry Parker Quincy (1838-1899)
Son of Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) and Lucilla Pinckney Parker Quincy (1810-1860); of Dedham and Boston; Harvard 1862; studied in Europe; M.D., Harvard 1867; "anatomical draughtsman"; instructor in histology, Harvard Medical School; married in 1877 Mary Gardiner Adams (1845-1928), his distant cousin, both being descended from Edmund Quincy (1628-1698).
Josiah Quincy (1859-1919)
Son of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and Helen Frances Huntington Quincy (1831-1903); of Quincy and Boston; Harvard 1880; representative in the General Court; assistant secretary of the Navy in Cleveland's second term; Democratic mayor of Boston, 1895-1899, widely acclaimed and attacked for his social (or "socialistic") reforms; married in 1900 Ellen Krebs Tyler (1862-1904).
Mary Perkins Quincy (b. 1866)
Daughter of John Williams Quincy (1813-1883) and Lucretia Deming Perkins Quincy.
Collection Description
The Quincy family papers include correspondence, diaries, journals, genealogical records, commonplace-books, notes on sermons, lectures, debates, essays, drawings, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers of the Quincy family. The collection contains papers related to the activities of the justice of the peace of Suffolk Co., Mass. (1716-1758); family matters; "Observations on the Boston Port Bill" (1774); and Samuel Miller Quincy's Civil War service as an officer of the 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Members of the family represented include Edmund Quincy (1681-1738), Edmund Quincy (1703-1788), Edmund Quincy (1733-1768), Edmund Quincy (1808-1877), Edmund Quincy (1834-1894), Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884), John Quincy (1689-1767), Josiah Quincy (1744-1775), Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), Josiah Quincy (1859-1919), Mary Perkins Quincy (b. 1866), and Samuel Quincy (1735-1789). One scrapbook of Mary Perkins Quincy's journey to Thorpe-Achurch in Northamptonshire, England (QP89), contains photographs of various views of Northamptonshire taken by commercial photographers, ca. 1897.
Arrangement
This guide is a shelflist only. Items are listed according to their arrangement on the shelves, which is mostly by individual family member.
Acquisition Information
Gift of members and descendants of the Quincy family, 1795-1967.
Shelflist
Most, but not all, of the materials listed here are included on the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham family papers microfilm (P-347); the location on the microfilm reels is noted. Those items excluded from the microfilm have also been identified.
Anna Cabot Lowell (Quincy) Waterston (1812-1899)
Edmund Quincy (1628-1698)
Edmund Quincy (1681-1738)
Commonplace book, ca. 1694-1709
1 volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel I.2.
Edmund Quincy (1703-1788)
Included are about 20 letters from Edmund Quincy to Ebenezer Parkman, 1722-1723, and especially 1775-1781; three letterbooks, primarily covering the 1770s, containing letters to his children, friends, and sons-in-law (especially John Hancock); one letterbook, 1755-1764, related to his business affairs; a volume of notes on sermons heard in the 1730s; and a commonplace book, 1737-1766.
"Edmund Quincy's Letter Book," 1727-1776
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Letterbook including a) letters, business accounts, and an agricultural essay, 1727-1730, on reel II; and b) letters and business papers, including letterbook, 30 Nov. 1775-24 May 1776, and business and legal papers, 5 June 1773-24 May 1776, on reel II.3.
Notes on sermons heard, 1730-1731
1 narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel III.2.
Commonplace book, 1737-1776 [photostat only]
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel II.2.
Account book, 1764-1765
1 narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel III.1.
"Commonplace Book," 1773-1776 [case label is incorrect--should say Commonplace book, 1665-1738]
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Includes a) Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) memoranda book, 1665-1697, on reel I.2; b) Edmund Quincy (1681-1738) commonplace book, 1697-1705, on reel I.3; and c) Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) on reel III.3.
Letterbooks, 1776-1783 [incorrectly labeled--should say 1776-1784]
1 oversize boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel II.4.
Transcripts of letters to family members and others, 1722-1814
1 boxSee list of original letters in Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham index.
Letters to Ebenezer Parkman, 1722-1814
1 narrow boxIn letterbooks (QP9, above) and dispersed throughout chronological letters; see index to the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Edmund Quincy letters, 1750-1827
1 boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Includes John Williams Quincy (1769-1834) collection of forms for legal instruments, 1825-1833, on reel V.2. See index for remainder.
Photocopies of letters to his son Henry Quincy (1727-1780) and others, 1775-1777
1 narrow boxOriginals located at William L. Clements Library.
Not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Edmund Quincy (1733-1768)
Letterbook, 1755-1764
1 narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel III.6.
Edmund Quincy (1808-1877)
Included are about 100 letters from Edmund Quincy, primarily to Anne Warren Weston and Richard D. Webb of Dublin; lectures on the French Revolution, anti-slavery, George Fox, the early Quakers, and others subjects; letters to his wife Lucilla; newspaper clippings about a controversy between him and "Sigma," beginning in 1850, on the question of anti-slavery; a scrapbook of obituaries of him and reviews of his "Wensley," edited by his son Edmund in 1885; 15 letters to George F. Talbot, 1851-1875; nine journals, 1824-1850; and two writings entitled "Old Houses" and "Octogenary," 1837-1838.
Journal, Vol. 1, 26 Sep. 1824-22 Jan. 1826
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VIII.1.
Journal, Vol. 2, 23 Jan. 1826-14 Jan. 1827
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VIII.2.
Journal, Vol. 3, 15 Jan. 1827-25 Apr. 1828
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VIII.3.
Journal, Vol. 4, 26 Apr. 1828-31 Oct. 1830
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VIII.4.
Journal, Vol. 5, 1 Nov. 1830-8 July 1832
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VIII.5.
Journal, Vol. 6, 9 July 1832-31 Mar. 1837
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VIII.6.
Journal, Vol. 7, 1 Apr. 1837-14 June 1841
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VIII.7.
Journal, Vol. 8, 15 June 1841-12 Nov. 1844
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IX.1.
Journal, Vol. 9, 13 Nov. 1844-3 Sep. 1850
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IX.2.
Two essays: manuscript of "Old Houses in Boston" and printed text of "An Octogenary," 1837-1838
1 bound volume"Octogenary" is Edmund Quincy's fictionalized biography of Norton Quincy, published in American Monthly Magazine, vol. 5 (New York, 1838).
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: "Old Houses" on reel IX.4.
Letters from Wendell Phillips and others, 1837-1877
1 boxDispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index.
Early lectures, debates, and letters, 1733-1851
1 boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Lectures on reel IX.3 and IX.5. Letters dispersed; see index for complete list.
Letters and memorandum books, 1851-1857
1 boxLetters dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index for complete list. Memorandum books are scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and are not on the microfilm.
Memorandum books, 1857-1861
1 boxScrapbooks of newspaper clippings; not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Memorandum books, 1863-1866
1 boxScrapbooks of newspaper clippings; not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Newspaper clippings of his obituaries and reviews of the reissues of his books, 1808-1885
1 narrow boxNot on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Miscellaneous papers
3 boxesOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Lectures on Socrates, 1842, and "Private Life of Colonists of New England" on reel IX.6 and IX.7, and other miscellaneous writings on reel XI.2. Letters dispersed; see index for more information.
Edmund Quincy (1834-1894)
Journal, 28 Apr.-2 Nov. 1852
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel XI.8.
Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884)
Included are four letters from Eliza Susan Quincy to George Gill, 1881, about the maintenance of the grave of her grandfather Josiah Quincy; a journal, 1814-1821; and two drafts of a memoir of Josiah Quincy (1744-1775) by Eliza Susan Quincy.
Journal, 16 Sep. 1814-30 Sep. 1821, annotated by Eliza Susan Quincy in 1870
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel V.7.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to Lafayette's visit, 1824-1834
1 bound volumeNot on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
"Journal of Lafayette's Visit, 1824-1825"
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VII.1.
Memoir of Josiah Quincy, 1820-1870, Volume 1
1 bound volumeIncluded are sketches and watercolors by Eliza Susan Quincy.
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VI.1.
Memoir of Josiah Quincy, 1820-1870, Volume 2
1 bound volumeIncluded are sketches and watercolors by Eliza Susan Quincy.
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel VI.2.
Letter to Samuel Adams Drake containing reminiscences about Boston, Anna Lowell, Amory Lowell, 1862-1873
1 narrow boxDispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm. Letters to Drake on reel 61. See index.
Letters to George T. Gill about maintenance of the grave of Josiah Quincy (1744-1775), 1881
1 folder in box with QP47On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel 64; see index.
Helen Frances (Huntington) Quincy (1831-1903)
Henry Quincy (1727-1780)
Henry Parker Quincy (1838-1899)
Miscellaneous letters and lectures, 1850-1854
1 folder in box with QP47 and QP48On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Includes Edmund Quincy's draft of part of his novel, Wensley, 1853, on reel X.1. Other Edmund Quincy items dispersed on film; see index.
John Quincy (1689-1767)
"Quincy. Braintree Cases. 1716-1758" [should be 1716-1761]: manuscript record of court actions and marriages performed by John Quincy while justice of the peace for Suffolk County
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel I.5.
John Williams Quincy (1769-1834)
Josiah Quincy (1744-1775)
Included are two journals, 1773-1775; an inventory of the estate of Josiah Quincy and a catalog of his library; a manuscript draft of "Observations on the Boston Port Bill" and the printed version published by Edes & Gill, 1774; five volumes of reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts, 1761-1765; one volume of law reports belonging to E. Rutledge, copied by Josiah Quincy in 1773; and a commonplace book, 1770-1774.
"Josiah Quincy, Jr., Papers": manuscript material about early history and genealogy of Quincy family, compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 boxDispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index under Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Josiah Quincy (1744-1775). Early genealogical materials are on reel 20, and most early papers are on reels 20-22.
Transcript of journal of Josiah Cotton (1680-1756), with scattered entries through 1725
Removed to Ms. S-299.
Inventory of books, furniture, bond and notes, and personal estate
1 folder in box with QP51Identified as Catalog of library and list of bonds, 1775, on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm, reel IV.7.
"Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Reports, 1771-1772": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IV.5.
"Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports, 1762-1763": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IV.1.
"Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports, 1763": commonplace book of law decisions and reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IV.2.
"Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports, 1764": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts, 1764-1767
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IV.3.
"Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports, 1765": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts, 1765-1769
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IV.4.
Commonplace book on topics of law and government, June 1770-1774
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IV.8.
"Copies of law reports belonging to E. Rutledge," copied by Josiah Quincy (1744-1775), 1773
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel IV.6.
Journal of trip to South Carolina, beginning 8 Feb. 1773; copy of journal of trip to England, 23 Sep. 1774-3 Mar. 1775; and copy of minutes taken from Josiah Quincy by a seaman, 21 Apr. 1775
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel III.8. For original manuscript journal of Quincy's trip to England, 23 Sep. 1774-3 Mar. 1775, see QP62.
Original manuscript journal of trip to England, 23 Sep. 1774-3 Mar. 1775
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel III.9.
"Observations on the Boston Port Bill": manuscript draft and printed version, 1774
1 disbound volume in narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel V.1.
Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)
Included are journals of Josiah Quincy kept on trips to southeastern New England, 1801, and Washington, D.C., 1829; two journals, slightly overlapping, 1805-1828; a few letters from Josiah Quincy to his son Edmund; and one volume of his correspondence with Lafayette, 1824-1825.
Journal of trip in southern New England, 3-17 June 1801
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel V.3.
Journal and notes on English history, 1805-1806, with one entry in 1820
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel V.4.
Journal and commonplace book, 1 Dec. 1818-Jan. 1828
1 bound volumeOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel V.5.
Record of sermons, 1819-1829
1 bound volumeNot on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Journal of visit to Washington, 3 Feb.-6 Mar. 1829
1 narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel V.6.
"Josiah Quincy II Papers, or Quincy Autograph Collection," 1612-1881
2 boxesDispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index.
"Quincy-Howe Family Papers 1809-1944" and Eliza Susan Quincy commonplace book, 1818-1825
2 boxes and 1 narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Includes Eliza Susan Quincy's commonplace book on reel VII.3 (misidentified as QP130 on the microfilm) and Helen Francis (Huntington) Quincy's (1831-1903) commonplace book, 1852-1872, on reel XI.7. Some of the remaining materials are dispersed on the microfilm; see index.
Josiah Quincy (1802-1882)
Letters to his wife Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, 1849-1866
1 narrow boxIncluded are 17 letters from Josiah Quincy to his wife Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, 15 of which describe his journey from New York to Charleston, S.C., 20 Feb.-26 Mar. 1849.
Dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index.
Josiah Quincy (1859-1919)
Some select early items in QP72 are on the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index. The remainder of these materials do not appear on the microfilm.
Letters, papers, etc., 1639-1897
2 boxesLetters, papers, etc., 1859-1919
1 boxLetters, papers, etc., 1905
3 boxesLetters, papers, etc., 1906-1916
1 boxLetters, papers, etc., 1917-1930
1 box and 1 narrow boxScrapbook [No.1]: clippings related to career of Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) and numerous obituaries, 1881-1919
1 bound volumeScrapbook [No. 2]: clippings related to Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy and others
1 bound volumeDiary of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1 Jan.-10 June 1881
1 narrow boxAddress book, undated
1 folder in box with QP77CMary Honey's book of poems, 1893
1 folder in box with QP77C and QP77DMiscellaneous papers, 1896
1 folder in box with QP77C-77EScrapbook [No. 3]: newspaper clippings on various subjects, especially Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) and his family, and numerous drawings and cartoons, 1885-1904
1 bound volumeScrapbook [No.4]: newspaper clippings of articles by Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) and about him and his governorship, 1901, and numerous news photos, drawings, etc., 1895-1922
1 bound volumeScrapbook [No. 5]: newspaper clippings of articles by Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) and about his mayoralty and related political matters, 1895 and undated
1 bound volumeScrapbook: letters, cards, and telegrams related to the death of Mrs. Samuel R. Honey, mother-in-law of Mary Honey, 1900
1 bound volumeJosiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910)
Typescript of story "The Esoteric Department" and memorandum discussing it, 1889
1 narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel XI.6.
Margaret Morton (Quincy) Greene (1806-1882)
Maria Sophia Quincy (1805-1886)
Mary Perkins Quincy (b. 1866) "Quinciana"
There is no volume numbered "XII." These items are not included on the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Letters and miscellaneous material related to Quincy family history, 1845-1916
1 boxFamily history and records: miscellaneous material, especially related to Quincy family's European background, 1845-1916
3 boxesFamily history and records: miscellaneous material related to Quincys in England and early America, 1845-1916
1 oversize caseOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Includes John Williams Quincy's (1813-1883) 1836 journal of visits on reel XI.5.
Family history and records: genealogical information; select articles about family history; and correspondence with E. E. Salisbury, co-author of projected family history, 1845-1916
1 box and 2 bound volumesFamily history and records: miscellaneous material mainly related to Quincy connections by marriage in America, 1845-1916
2 boxesFamily history and records: miscellaneous material about Quincy family in Europe and America, 1845-1916
1 oversize case and 5 bound volumes"I: In Ancient Times. From the battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest, 1066, to the Creation of the Earldom of Winchester, 1207"
1 case"II: The Earldom of Winchester, 1207-1314. Monographs on the de Quincys Earls of Winchester and their sons. The text of the Magna Charta, 1215"
1 case"III: Annals of the marriages of the daughters and granddaughters of the de Quincy earls. Monographs on the houses of the Great Nobles allied by marriage with the de Quincys"
1 case"IV: The Annals and Vicissitudes of the Earldom of Lincoln from the time of Hawyse de Meschines, wife of Robert de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln in her own right, to the Plantagenet marriages"
1 case"V: Interregnum 1264-1593-1600"
1 case"VI: Interregnum 1264-1593. The close of the Interregnum, 1593-1633"
1 case"VII: The Interregnum 1264-1593; close of the Interregnum 1593-1633"
1 case"VIII: The Province of Massachusetts Bay, Edmund Quincy 1602-1635 (of Massachusetts Bay, 1633-1635): the Quincys of the Province of Massachusetts Bay 1633-1776"
1 case"IX: The Quincys during the War of the American Revolution, and later (1775-1783); the text of the Declaration of Independence, 1776; the text of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1787, 1789"
1 case"X: An ancestral estate at Quincy"
1 case and 1 bound volume"XI: An ancestral estate at Quincy"
1 case"XIII: Reference to the name of Quincy in printed records, archives and various collections"
1 case"XIV: Addenda"
1 caseFamilies related to Quincys through marriages of Jacob Quincy (1760) and his son John Williams Quincy I (1794)
1 boxSamuel Quincy (1735-1789)
Diary in London, Oct. 1776-Mar. [?] 1777
1 narrow boxOn Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel III.7.
Letters to his family, 1758-1789, mostly 1775 and later
1 narrow boxDispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index.
Samuel Miller Quincy (1832-1887)
Letters, mostly as a soldier, to his family, 1861-1867
1 narrow box and 1 bound volumeDispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index.
Quincy sisters
Journals (with partial typescripts) of three daughters of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864): Maria Sophia Quincy, 1829 (reel VII.5); Margaret Morton (Quincy) Greene, 1824 (reel VII.6), journal/letterbook, 1827-1828 (reel VII.7), trip to France, 1834 (reel VII.8); and Anna Cabot Lowell (Quincy) Waterston, 1833-1834 (reel X.3-6)
See reel notes above. Typescripts not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Quincy scrapbooks
These items are not included on the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Eliza Susan Quincy
Scrapbook of obituaries and tributes to Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), Benjamin Daniel Greene (1798-1864), Edmund Quincy (1808-1877), and Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), and reviews of Quincy books, 1864-1883, compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 cased volumeScrapbook of newspaper clippings on local, family, historical, and literary topics, 1875, compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 cased volumeScrapbook of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, mostly undated, [ca. 1870], compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 cased volumeScrapbook of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, 1871 and earlier, compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 cased volumeScrapbook of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, including articles on the death of John Quincy Adams, 1848-1851, compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy, 1872
1 cased volumeJosiah Quincy (1802-1882)
Scrapbook of material about mayoral campaigns and activities of Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) in the 1840s, 1841-1881
1 cased volumeEdmund Quincy (1808-1877)
Scrapbook of letters of Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) to New York Anti-Slavery Standard, "From our Boston Correspondent," signed "D.Y.," Nos. 1-212, with some omissions, 1846-1857
1 cased volumeScrapbook of letters of Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) to New York Anti-Slavery Standard, "From our Boston Correspondent," signed "D.Y.," Nos. 213-278, 31 Aug. 1857-29 Oct. 1860
1 cased volumeScrapbook of editorials written by Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) for New York Anti-Slavery Standard on current topics, 1854-1862
1 cased volumeScrapbook of editorials written by Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) for unidentified newspapers, 1862-1869
1 cased volume"Independent articles": scrapbook of newspaper clippings of Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) on various subjects, 23 Jan. 1870-25 Aug. 1872
1 cased volumeScrapbook of unsigned contributions by Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) to the Independent, 1872-1873
1 cased volumeJosiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910)
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) under the pseudonym "JPQ," undated
1 cased volume"Selections from the works of Josiah P. Quincy": scrapbook of contributions to newspapers by Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910), 1850-1872, probably compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 cased volumeScrapbook of undated essays, poetry, travel letters, and other items on educational topics, theatrical figures, the coming of the Civil War, lectures, etc., by members of the family of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910), 1850-1867
1 cased volumeScrapbook of reviews of literary works of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and notices of his lectures, 1854-1889
1 cased volumeScrapbook of clippings on political and literary subjects and several obituaries of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), mostly anonymous, some by Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910), 1864-1870
1 cased volumeScrapbook of clippings from New York and Boston newspapers, mostly related to anti-slavery, the Civil War, and other subjects of interest to Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and his family, 1861-1869
1 cased volumeScrapbooks of clippings on political subjects, especially the presidential contest of 1872, and other subjects of interest to Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and his family, 1870-1874
2 cased volumesScrapbook of newspaper clippings on politics, current issues, and other subjects of interest to Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and his family, 1874-1901, mostly undated
1 cased volumeQuincy miscellaneous
"Quincy Papers-Miscellaneous": small group of letters written by Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and his son Henry Quincy (1727-1780), 1772-1777
1 narrow boxDispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index.
Fifteen genealogical charts as printed in E. E. Salisbury "Family Memorials"
Shelved in printed collection: B. Gen. Large. Not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Notes by Eliza Susan Quincy about the family of Edmund Quincy, 30 June 1881; memoranda by Eliza Susan Quincy related to pictures, china, and furniture in the Quincy house built by Col. Josiah Quincy in 1770, 1879 (reel VII.2); commonplace book of Eliza Susan Quincy, 1846 (reel VII.4; this case is labeled Anna Quincy poems); letters from Josiah Quincy to his sister, 1915-1917; drawings by Anna C. L. Quincy in bound volume, 1837; Italian Democrats of Boston to Hon. Josiah Quincy, 1898; and drawings to accompany poems by Anna Quincy, 1837
1 narrow box and 4 cased volumesSome items on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see reel notes above.
Preferred Citation
Quincy family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Materials Removed from the Collection
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Quincy family photographs (unprocessed). Photo. Coll. 500.19. The daguerreotype of Samuel M. Quincy (Photo. 1.491) is stored in the MHS Photo Archives by format.