Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Family Papers 1633-1910 Guide to the Microfilm Edition Sponsored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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Collection Summary

Biographical Sketches

Listed below are brief biographies of members of the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham families represented in this collection, as well as other individuals related by marriage. The names are arranged into generations, and spouses are generally listed together.

Quincy Family

Generation 1

Edmund Quincy (1602-ca. 1636): "The Puritan"; of Achurch, Northamptonshire, England; came with his family to Boston in the company of John Cotton, 1633; representative in first General Court; acquired by grant and purchase extensive lands at Mount Wollaston in Braintree (now Quincy); married in 1623 Judith Pares (d. 1654).

Generation 2

Judith Quincy Hull (1626-1695): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1602-ca. 1636) and Judith Pares Quincy (d. 1654); married in 1647 John Hull (1624-1683).

John Hull (1624-1683): Husband of Judith Quincy Hull (1626-1695); leading merchant and mintmaster of the Bay Colony.

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).

Joanna Hoar Quincy (1625-1680): First wife of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698); daughter of Charles Hoar (d. 1638) and Joanna Hinchman Hoar (d. 1661); sister of Margery Hoar Flynt (d. 1687) and Leonard Hoar (ca. 1630-1675; Harvard 1650), third president of Harvard College.

Elizabeth Gookin Eliot Quincy (1645-1700): Second wife of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698); daughter of Gen. Daniel Gookin and widow of Rev. John Eliot, Jr.

Generation 3

Hannah Hull Sewall (1658-1717): Daughter of Judith Quincy Hull (1626-1695) and John Hull (1624-1683); married in 1676 Samuel Sewall (1652-1730; Harvard 1671), judge and diarist.

Daniel Quincy (1651-1690): Son of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) and Joanna Hoar Quincy (1625-1680); Boston merchant and "goldsmith" (i.e. banker); married in 1682 Anna Shepard (1663-1708).

Anna Shepard Quincy Fiske (1663-1708): Wife of Daniel Quincy (1651-1690); daughter of Rev. Thomas Shepard, Jr. (1635-1677; Harvard 1653), of Charlestown and Anna Tyng Shepard, who inherited the original Coddington lands adjoining the Quincy lands at Mount Wollaston; married in 1701 Moses Fiske (1642-1708; Harvard 1662) and had by him Shepard Fiske and Margaret Fiske Buchman.

John Quincy (1652-1674): Son of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) and Joanna Hoar Quincy (1625-1680).

Judith Quincy Rayner (1655-1679): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) and Joanna Hoar Quincy (1625-1680); married John Rayner (1643-1676; Harvard 1663).

Ruth Quincy Hunt (1658-1698): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) and Joanna Hoar Quincy (1625-1680); married in 1686 John Hunt.

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).

Dorothy Flynt Quincy (1678-1737): Wife of Edmund Quincy (1681-1738); daughter of Rev. Josiah Flynt (1645-1680; Harvard 1664) and Esther Willett Flynt (d. 1737) of Dorchester; sister of "Tutor" Henry Flynt (1675-1760; Harvard 1693); granddaughter of Margery Hoar Flynt (d. 1687).

John Quincy (b. 1683): Son of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) and Elizabeth Gookin Eliot Quincy (1645-1700).

Mary Quincy Baker (1684-1716): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1628-1698) and Elizabeth Gookin Eliot Quincy (1645-1700); married in 1715 Daniel Baker (1686-1731; Harvard 1706).

Generation 4

Samuel Sewall (1678-1751): Son of Hannah Hull Sewall (1658-1717) and Samuel Sewall (1652-1730); married in 1702 Rebecca Dudley.

Rebecca Dudley Sewall: Wife of Samuel Sewall (1678-1751); daughter of Gov. Joseph Dudley (1647-1720; Harvard 1665) and Rebecca Tyng Dudley (1651-1722).

Joseph Sewall (1688-1769): Son of Hannah Hull Sewall (1658-1717) and Samuel Sewall (1652-1730); Harvard 1707; married in 1713 Elizabeth Walley.

Anna Quincy Holman (1685-1717): Daughter of Daniel Quincy (1651-1690) and Anna Shepard Quincy (1663-1708); married in 1705 John Holman (1679-1759; Harvard 1700).

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).

Elizabeth Norton Quincy (1696-1769): Wife of John Quincy (1689-1767); daughter of Rev. John Norton (ca. 1651-1716; Harvard 1671) and Mary Mason Norton (1659-1739) of Hingham.

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).

Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769): First wife of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788); daughter of Boston merchant Abraham Wendell, formerly of Albany.

Elizabeth Quincy Wendell (1706-1746): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1681-1738) and Dorothy Flynt Quincy (1678-1737); married in 1724 John Wendell (1703-1762).

Dorothy Quincy Jackson (1709-1762): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1681-1738) and Dorothy Flynt Quincy (1678-1737); the "Dorothy Q" of Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem inspired by her portrait as a girl; married in 1738 Edward Jackson (1708-1757).

Edward Jackson (1708-1757): Husband of Dorothy Quincy Jackson (1709-1762); Harvard 1726; Boston merchant and manufacturer.

Josiah Quincy (1710-1784): Son of Edmund Quincy (1681-1738) and Dorothy Flynt Quincy (1678-1737); of Braintree and Boston; Harvard 1728; the "Colonel Quincy" of John Adams's early diaries; traveled abroad on mercantile business for the family firm; retired to Braintree and set up a glass manufactory; representative in General Court; justice of the peace and of the quorum; colonel of Suffolk militia; built the "later Quincy mansion" near Wollaston shore, 1770; patriot; correspondent of Franklin and Washington; married first in 1733 Hannah Sturgis (1712-1755); married second in 1756 Elizabeth Waldron (1722-ca. 1760); married third in 1762 Ann Marsh (1723-1805).

Hannah Sturgis Quincy (1712-1755): Wife of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784); daughter of Judge and Councillor John Sturgis of Yarmouth.

Elizabeth Baker (b. 1716): Daughter of Mary Quincy Baker (1684-1716) and Daniel Baker (1686-1731).

Generation 5

Samuel Sewall (1715-1771): Son of Joseph Sewall (1688-1769) and Elizabeth Walley Sewall; Harvard 1733; married first in 1745 Mary Wendell (1724-1746); married second in 1749 Elizabeth Quincy (1729-1770).

Norton Quincy (1716-1801): Son of John Quincy (1689-1767) and Elizabeth Norton Quincy (1696-1769); of Boston and Braintree; Harvard 1736; held many local offices, but after inheriting his father's great estate at Mount Wollaston, he declined public office and became a recluse; married in 1747 Martha Salisbury (1727-1748).

Martha Salisbury Quincy (1727-1748): Wife of Norton Quincy (1716-1801); daughter of Nicholas Salisbury, Boston merchant.

Anna Quincy Thaxter (1719-1799): Daughter of John Quincy (1689-1767) and Elizabeth Norton Quincy (1696-1769); married in 1744 John Thaxter (1721-1802; Harvard 1741).

Elizabeth Quincy Smith (1721-1775): Daughter of John Quincy (1689-1767) and Elizabeth Norton Quincy (1696-1769); married in 1740 William Smith (1706-1783).

William Smith (1706-1783): Husband of Elizabeth Quincy Smith (1721-1775); Harvard 1725; from 1734, pastor of the First Church of Weymouth.

Lucy Quincy Tufts (1729-1785): Daughter of John Quincy (1689-1767) and Elizabeth Norton Quincy (1696-1769); married in 1755 Cotton Tufts (1732-1815; Harvard 1749).

Edmund Quincy (1726-1782): Son of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769); of Boston and Sharon; businessman and land developer; married first in 1750 Anna Huske; married second in 1765 Mehitabel Temple; married third in 1767 Hannah Gannett.

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.

Abraham Quincy (1728-1756): Son of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769).

Elizabeth Quincy Sewall (1729-1770): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769); married in 1749 Samuel Sewall (1715-1771).

Katherine Quincy (b. 1733): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769).

Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773): Son of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769); Harvard 1753; married in 1760 Elizabeth Williams.

Sarah Quincy Greenleaf (1736-1790): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769); married in 1763 Gen. William Greenleaf.

Esther Quincy Sewall (1738-1810): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769); married in 1764 Jonathan Sewall (1728-1796).

Jonathan Sewall (1728-1796): Husband of Esther Quincy Sewall (1738-1810); Harvard 1748; last royal attorney general of Massachusetts; loyalist.

Dorothy Quincy Hancock Scott (1747-1830): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769); married first in 1775 John Hancock (1737-1793); their two children died young; married second in 1796 James Scott (1746-1809), Boston ship captain.

John Hancock (1737-1793): First husband of Dorothy Quincy Hancock (1747-1830); Harvard 1754; merchant prince of Boston; patron of the Sons of Liberty; treasurer of Harvard College; second president of the Continental Congress and first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mary Jackson Wendell (1740-1804): Daughter of Dorothy Quincy Jackson (1709-1762) and Edward Jackson (1708-1757); married in 1762 Oliver Wendell (1733-1818).

Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810): Son of Dorothy Quincy Jackson (1709-1762) and Edward Jackson (1708-1757); Harvard 1761; married first in 1767 Sarah Barnard (d. 1770); married second in 1772 Hannah Tracy (d. 1797).

Edmund Quincy (1732 or 3-1768): Son of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Hannah Sturgis Quincy (1712-1755); Harvard 1752; Boston merchant; died at sea in 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.

Hannah Hill Quincy (1734-1782): First wife of Samuel Quincy (1735-1789); daughter of Boston distiller Thomas Hill; differed with her husband on the war and remained with their children in America until its close.

Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer (1736-1826): Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Hannah Sturgis Quincy (1712-1755); the "O" or "Orlinda" of John Adams's early diaries; married first in 1760 Bela Lincoln (1734-1773); married second in 1777 Ebenezer Storer (1730-1807).

Bela Lincoln (1734-1773): First husband of Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer (1736-1826); Harvard 1754; physician of Hingham.

Ebenezer Storer (1730-1807): Second husband of Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer (1736-1826), his second wife; Harvard 1747; deacon of Brattle Street Church; treasurer of Harvard College.

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).

Abigail Phillips Quincy (1745-1798): Wife of Josiah Quincy (1744-1775); daughter of Boston merchant, patriot, and philanthropist William Phillips (1722-1804) and Abigail Bromfield Phillips.

Elizabeth Quincy Guild (1757-1825): Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Elizabeth Waldron Quincy (1722-ca. 1760); married in 1784 Benjamin Guild (1749-1792; Harvard 1769).

Ann Quincy Packard (1763-1844): Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) and Ann Marsh Quincy (1723-1805); married in 1790 Asa Packard (1758-1843; Harvard 1783).

Generation 6

John Thaxter (1755-1791): Son of Anna Quincy Thaxter (1719-1799) and John Thaxter (1721-1802); Harvard 1744; married in 1787 Elizabeth Duncan.

Quincy Thaxter (1762-1837): Son of Anna Quincy Thaxter (1719-1799) and John Thaxter (1721-1802); married in 1786 Elizabeth Cushing (1767-1820).

Mary Smith Cranch (1741-1811): Daughter of Elizabeth Quincy Smith (1721-1775) and William Smith (1706-1783); married Richard Cranch (1726-1811).

Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818): Daughter of Elizabeth Quincy Smith (1721-1775) and William Smith (1706-1783); married in 1764 John Adams (1735-1826).

John Adams (1735-1826): Husband of Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818); Harvard 1755; second president of the United States.

William Smith (1746-1787): Son of Elizabeth Quincy Smith (1721-1775) and William Smith (1706-1783); married Catherine Louise Salmon (1749-1824).

Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody (1750-1815): Daughter of Elizabeth Quincy Smith (1721-1775) and William Smith (1706-1783); married first in 1777 John Shaw (1748-1794; Harvard 1772); married second in 1795 Stephen Peabody (1741-1819; Harvard 1769).

Cotton Tufts (1757-1833): Son of Lucy Quincy Tufts (1729-1785) and Cotton Tufts (1732-1815); Harvard 1777; married in 1788 Mercy Brooks (1763-1849).

Mary Quincy Sheafe (b. 1751): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1726-1782) and Anna Huske Quincy; married in 1774 Jacob Sheafe (1745-1829).

Edmund Huske Quincy (1759-1818): Son of Edmund Quincy (1726-1782) and Anna Huske Quincy.

Horatio Gates Quincy (1779-1825): Son of Edmund Quincy (1726-1782) and Hannah Gannett Quincy; married in 1802 Polly Pettis.

Elizabeth Quincy Greene (1751-1781): Daughter of Henry Quincy (1727-1780) and Mary Salter Quincy; married Nathaniel Greene.

Eunice Quincy de Valnais (1760-1793): Daughter of Henry Quincy (1727-1780) and Eunice Newell Quincy; married Joseph de Valnais (1734-1826; Harvard 1779).

Henry Quincy (b. 1762): Son of Henry Quincy (1727-1780) and Eunice Newell Quincy; of Gardner, Mass.; married Sarah Robbins.

Elizabeth Sewall Salisbury (1750-1789): Daughter of Elizabeth Quincy Sewall (1729-1770) and Samuel Sewall (1715-1771); married Samuel Salisbury.

Hannah Sewall Hill (b. 1753): Daughter of Elizabeth Quincy Sewall (1729-1770) and Samuel Sewall (1715-1771); married James Hill.

Samuel Sewall (1757-1814): Son of Elizabeth Quincy Sewall (1729-1770) and Samuel Sewall (1715-1771); Harvard 1776; married Abigail Devereux.

Joseph Sewall (1762-1850): Son of Elizabeth Quincy Sewall (1729-1770) and Samuel Sewall (1715-1771); married in 1788 Mary Robie.

Jacob Quincy: Son of Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773) and Elizabeth Williams Quincy; married Ann Bigelow.

Elizabeth Wendell Quincy Clapp: Daughter of Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773) and Elizabeth Williams Quincy; married Asa Clapp.

Mary Quincy Kettell: Daughter of Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773) and Elizabeth Williams Quincy; married James Kettell.

Abraham Howard Quincy (1767-1840): Son of Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773) and Elizabeth Williams Quincy; married in 1792 Mary Holland.

John Williams Quincy (1769-1834): Son of Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773) and Elizabeth Williams Quincy; married in 1794 Abigail Atkins.

Samuel M. Quincy: Son of Dr. Jacob Quincy (1734-1773) and Elizabeth Williams Quincy; married Sarah Smart.

Elizabeth Greenleaf Gardner (1769-1814): Daughter of Sarah Quincy Greenleaf (1736-1790) and Gen. William Greenleaf; married John Gardner.

Sarah Greenleaf Greenough: Daughter of Sarah Quincy Greenleaf (1736-1790) and Gen. William Greenleaf; married William Greenough (1756-1831; Yale 1774).

Jonathan Sewall (1766-1839): Son of Esther Quincy Sewall (1738-1810) and Jonathan Sewall (1728-1796); chief justice of Lower Canada.

Stephen Sewall (1770-1832): Son of Esther Quincy Sewall (1738-1810) and Jonathan Sewall (1728-1796); solicitor general of Lower Canada.

Edward Jackson (1768-1777): Son of Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Sarah Barnard Jackson (d. 1770).

Charles Jackson (1775-1855): Son of Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Hannah Tracy Jackson (d. 1797); Harvard 1793; married first Amelia Lee (d. 1808); married second in 1809 Frances Cabot.

Hannah Jackson Lowell: Daughter of Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Hannah Tracy Jackson (d. 1797); married Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817; Harvard 1793).

Sarah Jackson Gardner: Daughter of Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Hannah Tracy Jackson (d. 1797); married John Gardner (1770-1825).

Dr. James Jackson (1777-1867): Son of Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Hannah Tracy Jackson (d. 1797); Harvard 1796; married first in 1801 Elizabeth Cabot (d. 1817); married second in 1818 Sarah Cabot.

Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780-1847): Son of Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Hannah Tracy Jackson (d. 1797); married in 1810 Lydia Cabot.

Samuel Quincy (1764-1816): Son of Samuel Quincy (1735-1789) and Hannah Hill Quincy (1734-1782); of Lenox, Mass.; Harvard 1782; married in 1786 Elizabeth Hatch (1764-1841).

Thomas Quincy (1767-ca. 1840): Son of Samuel Quincy (1735-1789) and Hannah Hill Quincy (1734-1782); of Deruyter, N.Y.

Hannah Quincy Hill (b. 1762): Daughter of Samuel Quincy (1735-1789) and Hannah Hill Quincy (1734-1782); married in 1786 Aaron Hill.

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 Morton Quincy (1773-1850): Wife of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864); daughter of John Morton, merchant of New York City.

Generation 7

Anna Quincy Thaxter (1796-1878): Daughter of Quincy Thaxter (1762-1837) and Elizabeth Cushing Thaxter (1767-1820).

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848): Eldest of the four children of Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) and John Adams (1735-1826); Harvard 1787; sixth president of the United States; named for his great-grandfather John Quincy, who lay dying when he was born; married in 1797 Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775-1852).

Horatio Gates Quincy (1807-1884): Son of Horatio Gates Quincy (1779-1825) and Polly Pettis Quincy; married in 1828 Mary McAllister.

Martha Atkins Quincy (1797-1870): Daughter of John Williams Quincy (1769-1834) and Abigail Atkins Quincy.

John Williams Quincy (ca. 1800-ca. 1818): Son of John Williams Quincy (1769-1834) and Abigail Atkins Quincy.

Silas Atkins Quincy (1802-1887): Son of John Williams Quincy (1769-1834) and Abigail Atkins Quincy.

Thomas Dennie Quincy (1807-1881): Son of John Williams Quincy (1769-1834) and Abigail Atkins Quincy.

Elizabeth Ann Quincy Wales (b. 1809): Daughter of John Williams Quincy (1769-1834) and Abigail Atkins Quincy; married in 1844 William Wales (d. 1873).

John Williams Quincy (1813-1883): Son of John Williams Quincy (1769-1834) and Abigail Atkins Quincy; originally given the name Jacob, then given the name John following the death of his brother John, ca. 1818; married in 1864 Lucretia Deming Perkins.

Amelia Lee Jackson Holmes (d. 1888): Daughter of Charles Jackson (1775-1855) and Amelia Lee Jackson (d. 1808); married in 1840 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).

Deborah Hatch Quincy (1789-1872): Daughter of Samuel Quincy (1764-1816) and Elizabeth Hatch Quincy (1764-1841).

Samuel Quincy (1791-1850): Son of Samuel Quincy (1764-1816) and Elizabeth Hatch Quincy (1764-1841); married in 1835 Abby Adams Beale (1800-1882).

Josiah Quincy (1793-1875): Son of Samuel Quincy (1764-1816) and Elizabeth Hatch Quincy (1764-1841); of Rumney, N.H.; married in 1819 Mary Grace Weld (1794-1844).

Thomas Quincy Hill: Son of Hannah Quincy Hill (b. 1762) and Aaron Hill.

Harriet Hill Phillips: Daughter of Hannah Quincy Hill (b. 1762) and Aaron Hill; married Willard Phillips.

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).

Mary Jane Miller Quincy (1806-1874): Wife of Josiah Quincy (1802-1882); daughter of Samuel Ridgway Miller, Boston merchant.

Abigail Phillips Quincy (1803-1893): Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy (1773-1850); last of her family to occupy the Quincy mansion of 1770.

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).

Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793-1862): Husband of Margaret Morton Quincy Greene (1806-1882); son of the wealthy Gardiner Greene of Boston and British Guiana; Harvard 1812; traveler, botanist, and patron of science.

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).

Lucilla Pinckney Parker Quincy (1810-1860): Wife of Edmund Quincy (1808-1877); daughter of wealthy Bostonian Daniel Pinckney Parker and sister of Henry Tuke Parker (1824-1890; Harvard 1842).

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.

Robert Cassie Waterston (1812-1893): Husband of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston (1812-1899); Boston clergyman; bequeathed his extensive library to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Generation 8

Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886): Son of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1775-1852); married in 1829 Abigail Brooks (1808-1889).

George Henry Quincy (1832-1895): Son of Horatio Gates Quincy (1807-1884) and Mary McAllister Quincy; married in 1853 Mary Caroline Sweetser.

Mary Perkins Quincy (b. 1866): Daughter of John Williams Quincy (1813-1883) and Lucretia Deming Perkins Quincy.

Elizabeth Quincy Huntington: Daughter of Samuel Quincy (1791-1850) and Abby Adams Beale Quincy (1800-1882); married E. H. Mills Huntington.

Abby Ann Quincy (b. 1836): Daughter of Samuel Quincy (1791-1850) and Abby Adams Beale Quincy (1800-1882).

Samuel Hatch Quincy (1827-1903): Son of Josiah Quincy (1793-1875) and Mary Grace Weld Quincy (1794-1844).

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 Negro troops in the Union Army; wounded, captured, imprisoned, and exchanged; breveted brigadier general, 1865.

Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883): Daughter of Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) and Mary Jane Miller Quincy (1806-1874); married in 1861 Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896).

Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896): Husband of Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883); Harvard 1844; celebrated astronomer; son of Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1787-1859) and Lucretia Dana Goddard Gould (1798-1876); brother of Lucretia Goddard Gould (1831-1869), who in 1859 married George Edward Ellis (1814-1894), and of Louisa Goddard Gould (b. 1834), who in 1866 married Horace McMurtrie.

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).

Mary Quincy (b. 1841): Daughter of Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) and Lucilla Pinckney Parker Quincy (1810-1860).

Generation 9

John Quincy Adams (1833-1894): Son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889).

Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915): Son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889).

Henry Adams (1838-1918): Son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889); married Marian Hooper (1843-1885).

Mary Gardiner Adams Quincy (1845-1928): Daughter of Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889); married in 1877 Henry Parker Quincy (1838-1899), her distant cousin.

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).

Helen Quincy (b. 1861): Daughter of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and Helen Frances Huntington Quincy (1831-1903).

Frances Huntington Quincy Howe (1870-1933): Daughter of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and Helen Frances Huntington Quincy (1831-1903); frequent contributor (but never under her own name) of essays and stories to magazines; married in 1899 Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864-1960).

Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864-1960): Husband of Frances Huntington Quincy Howe (1870-1933); named for his father, an Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island; Lehigh 1886 and Harvard 1887; biographer, poet, and magazine editor; director of the Boston Athenaeum; trustee, clubman, and sage.

Mabel Quincy: Daughter of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and Helen Frances Huntington Quincy (1831-1903).

Violet Quincy: Daughter of Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) and Helen Frances Huntington Quincy (1831-1903).

Susan Quincy Gould (b. 1862): Daughter of Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883) and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896).

Lucretia Gould (b. 1864): Daughter of Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883) and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896).

Alice Bache Gould (b. 1868): Daughter of Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883) and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896).

Benjamin Apthorp Gould (b. 1870): Son of Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883) and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896).

Maria Gould (b. 1872): Daughter of Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883) and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896).

Dorothy Quincy Nourse (1885-1939): Daughter of Henry Parker Quincy (1838-1899) and Mary Adams Quincy (1845-1928); married in 1906 Frederick Russell Nourse (1877-1952); two children.

Frederick Russell Nourse (1877-1952): Husband of Dorothy Quincy Nourse (1885-1939); Harvard 1899; Boston financier.

Generation 10

Edmund Quincy (b. 1903): Son of Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) and Ellen Krebs Tyler Quincy (1862-1904); of Boston; artist.

Quincy Howe (b. 1900): Son of Frances Huntington Quincy Howe (1870-1933) and Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864-1960); Harvard 1921; news analyst and author.

Helen Huntington Howe Allen (b. 1905): Daughter of Frances Huntington Quincy Howe (1870-1933) and Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864-1960); monologuist and novelist; married Reginald Allen.

Mark DeWolfe Howe (1906-1967): Son of Frances Huntington Quincy Howe (1870-1933) and Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (1864-1960); Harvard 1928; LL.B. 1933; law professor, legal historian, biographer of Justice Holmes, and leader in the civil rights movement.

Wendell and Holmes Families

Generation 1

Gov. Simon Bradstreet (1603-1697): Married in 1628 Ann Dudley (ca. 1612-1672), daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley (1576-1653).

Generation 2

Evert Jansen Wendell (1621-1709): Married Susanna DuTrieux.

Samuel Bradstreet (1633-1682): Son of Gov. Simon Bradstreet (1603-1697) and Ann Dudley Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672); Harvard 1653; married in 1662 Mercy Tyng (1643-1669), daughter of William Tyng.

Simon Bradstreet (1640-1683): Son of Gov. Simon Bradstreet (1603-1697) and Ann Dudley Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672); Harvard 1660; married in 1667 Lucy Woodbridge.

Generation 3

Elizabeth Staets Wendell Schuyler (d. 1737): Married first Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) of Albany, N.Y.; married second in 1695 John Schuyler.

Evert Wendell: Son of Evert Jansen Wendell (1621-1709) and Susanna DuTrieux Wendell; married Mary ---.

Johannis Wendell (1649-1691): Son of Evert Jansen Wendell (1621-1709) and Susanna DuTrieux Wendell; of Albany, N.Y.; married first Maritie J. Meyer; married second Elizabeth Staets (d. 1737).

Mercy Bradstreet Oliver (1667-1710): Daughter of Samuel Bradstreet (1633-1682) and Mercy Tyng Bradstreet (1643-1669); married Dr. James Oliver (1659-1703; Harvard 1680), son of Peter and Sarah Newgate Oliver.

Simon Bradstreet (1671-1741): Son of Simon Bradstreet (1640-1683) and Lucy Woodbridge Bradstreet; Harvard 1693; married in 1700 Mary Long.

Generation 4

Philip Schuyler: Son of Elizabeth Staets Wendell Schuyler (d. 1737) and John Schuyler.

John Schuyler: Son of Elizabeth Staets Wendell Schuyler (d. 1737) and John Schuyler.

Margaret Schuyler: Daughter of Elizabeth Staets Wendell Schuyler (d. 1737) and John Schuyler.

Catheliya Schuyler Cuyler: Daughter of Elizabeth Staets Wendell Schuyler (d. 1737) and John Schuyler; married Cornelius Cuyler.

Thomas Wendell: Son of Evert Wendell and Mary ---.

Maria Wendell Sanders: Daughter of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Maritie J. Meyer Wendell; married in 1704 Barent Sanders.

Elsie Wendell: Daughter of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Maritie J. Meyer Wendell.

Abraham Wendell (1678-1734): Son of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737); married in 1702 Katerina DeKey.

John Wendell (1684-1729): Son of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737); married Elizabeth Walters, daughter of R. Walter(s).

Philip Wendell: Son of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737).

Isaac Wendell (b. 1687): Son of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737); married in 1771 Catheliya Van Dyck.

Ephraim Wendell (1685-1731): Son of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737).

Sarah Wendell Glen (b. 1688): Daughter of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737); married Jacob Glen.

Susanna Wendell Van Renssalaer: Daughter of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737); married Goose Van Renssalaer.

Elizabeth Wendell Van Renssalaer: Daughter of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737); married Henry Van Renssalaer.

Jacob Wendell (1691-1761): Son of Johannis Wendell (1649-1691) and Elizabeth Staets Wendell (d. 1737); married in 1714 Sarah Oliver (1696-1762).

Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762): Wife of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761); daughter of Mercy Bradstreet Oliver (1667-1710) and Dr. James Oliver (1659-1703).

Mercy Oliver (1695-1773): Daughter of Mercy Bradstreet Oliver (1667-1710) and Dr. James Oliver (1659-1703).

Generation 5

Philip Cuyler: Son of Catheliya Schuyler Cuyler and Cornelius Cuyler.

Robert Sanders: Son of Maria Wendell Sanders and Barent Sanders.

John Wendell (1703-1762): Son of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married in 1724 Elizabeth Quincy (1706-1746).

Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (1704-1769): Daughter of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married in 1725 Edmund Quincy (1703-1788).

Abraham Wendell (1706-1741): Son of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married Jane Phillips.

Helen DeKey Wendell Rogers (b. 1707): Daughter of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married John Rogers.

Catherine Wendell Bulfinch (b. 1709): Daughter of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married William Bulfinch.

Lucretia Wendell Sturgis (b. 1714): Daughter of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married in 1734 Samuel Sturgis (1706-1767; Harvard 1725).

Sarah Wendell Cornat (b. 1721): Daughter of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married John Dennie Cornat.

Mary Wendell Oliver: Daughter of Abraham Wendell (1678-1734) and Katerina DeKey Wendell; married in 1745 Peter Oliver (1719-1754; Harvard 1737).

John Wendell (1708-1772): Son of John Wendell (1684-1729) and Elizabeth Walters Wendell; married Mary Oliver.

Jacob Wendell: Son of John Wendell (1684-1729) and Elizabeth Walters Wendell; married Martha Oliver, daughter of Mercy Wendell Oliver (d. 1760) and Nathaniel Oliver (1713-1768; Harvard 1733).

Abraham Wendell: Son of John Wendell (1684-1729) and Elizabeth Walters Wendell.

Mary Wendell: Daughter of Isaac Wendell (b. 1687) and Catheliya Van Dyck Wendell.

Jacob Wendell (1715-1753): Son of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); Harvard 1733; married in 1736 Elizabeth Hunt (d. 1799), daughter of John and Rebecca Shrimpton Hunt.

Elizabeth Wendell Wibird (b. 1719): Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); married Richard Wibird (1702-1765; Harvard 1722).

Sarah Wendell Hunt (d. 1776): Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); married in 1740 John Hunt (1715-1784; Harvard 1734).

Mercy Wendell Oliver (d. 1760): Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); married in 1741 Nathaniel Oliver (1713-1768).

Mary Wendell Sewall (1724-1746): Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); married in 1745 Samuel Sewall (1715-1771).

John Mico Wendell (1728-1773): Son of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); Harvard 1747; married in 1752 Katherine Saltonstall Brattle (d. 1821), daughter of Col. William Brattle (1706-1776) and Katherine Saltonstall Brattle.

Susannah Wendell: Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762).

Katherine Wendell Cooper: Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); married William Cooper.

Ann Wendell Penhallow: Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); married John Penhallow.

Margaret Wendell Phillips (b. 1739): Daughter of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); married in 1760 William Phillips.

Oliver Wendell (1733-1818): Son of Jacob Wendell (1691-1761) and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762); Harvard 1753; married in 1762 Mary Jackson (1740-1804), daughter of Edward and Dorothy Quincy Jackson.

David Holmes (1721-1779): Married first Mehitable Mayhew; married second in 1761 Temperance Bishop (d. 1803).

Generation 6

Elizabeth Wendell Davis (b. 1729): Daughter of John Wendell (1703-1762) and Elizabeth Quincy Wendell (1706-1746); married Solomon Davis.

John Wendell (1731-1808): Son of John Wendell (1703-1762) and Elizabeth Quincy Wendell (1706-1746); of Portsmouth, N.H.; Harvard 1750; married first in 1753 Sarah Wentworth (d. 1772), daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Wentworth; married second in 1778 Dorothy Sherburne (1752-1837), daughter of Judge Henry Sherburne (1709-1767) and Sarah Warner Sherburne.

Catherine Wendell Davis (d. 1808): Daughter of John Wendell (1703-1762) and Elizabeth Quincy Wendell (1706-1746); married Solomon Davis.

Edmund Wendell (1735-1783): Son of John Wendell (1703-1762) and Elizabeth Quincy Wendell (1706-1746).

Thomas Wendell (b. 1744): Son of John Wendell (1703-1762) and Elizabeth Quincy Wendell (1706-1746).

Sarah Wendell Gerry Fiske (b. 1745): Daughter of John Wendell (1703-1762) and Elizabeth Quincy Wendell (1706-1746); married first John Gerry of Marblehead, Mass.; married second in 1786 Gen. John Fiske.

John Hunt Wendell (b. 1739): Son of Jacob Wendell (1715-1753) and Elizabeth Hunt Wendell (d. 1799).

Martha Oliver Wendell: Daughter of Mercy Wendell Oliver (d. 1760) and Nathaniel Oliver (1713-1768); married Jacob Wendell.

Katherine Wendell Gannett (b. 1756): Daughter of John Mico Wendell (1728-1773) and Katherine Saltonstall Brattle Wendell (d. 1821); married in 1781 Caleb Gannett (1745-1818; Harvard 1763).

Martha Fitch Wendell Mellen (b. 1762): Daughter of John Mico Wendell (1728-1773) and Katherine Saltonstall Brattle Wendell (d. 1821); married in 1784 John Mellen (1752-1828; Harvard 1770).

Edward Wendell (ca. 1763-1841): Son of Oliver Wendell (1733-1818) and Mary Jackson Wendell (1740-1804); Harvard 1781.

Oliver Wendell (d. 1796): Son of Oliver Wendell (1733-1818) and Mary Jackson Wendell (1740-1804).

Sarah Jackson Wendell Holmes (1768-1862): Daughter of Oliver Wendell (1733-1818) and Mary Jackson Wendell (1740-1804); married in 1801 Abiel Holmes (1763-1837), his second wife.

Abiel Holmes (1763-1837): Son of David Holmes (1721-1779) and Temperance Bishop Holmes (d. 1803); Yale 1783; married first in 1790 Mary Stiles (d. 1795), daughter of Ezra Stiles (1727-1795; Yale 1746) and Elizabeth Hubbard Stiles; married second in 1801 Sarah Jackson Wendell (1768-1862).

David Holmes (1762-1832): Son of David Holmes (1721-1779) and Temperance Bishop Holmes (d. 1803).

Generation 7

Sarah Wentworth Wendell Sargent (b. 1754): Daughter of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Sarah Wentworth Wendell (d. 1772); married in 1784 Edward Sargent.

John Wendell (1757-1799): Son of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Sarah Wentworth Wendell (d. 1772).

Daniel Wendell (1760-1780): Son of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Sarah Wentworth Wendell (d. 1772).

Helena DeKey Wendell Sherburne (b. 1766): Daughter of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Sarah Wentworth Wendell (d. 1772); married Benjamin Sherburne.

George Wentworth Wendell (b. 1771): Son of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Sarah Wentworth Wendell (d. 1772); married in 1795 Rebecca Sherburne.

Daniel Wendell (1783-1807): Son of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Dorothy Sherburne Wendell (1752-1837).

Abraham Wendell (1785-1865): Son of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Dorothy Sherburne Wendell (1752-1837); married Susan Gardner.

Isaac Wendell (b. 1786): Son of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Dorothy Sherburne Wendell (1752-1837); married in 1809 Ann Austin Whittier.

Jacob Wendell (1788-1865): Son of John Wendell (1731-1808) and Dorothy Sherburne Wendell (1752-1837); married in 1816 Mehitabel Rindge Rogers.

Mary Jackson Holmes Parsons (1802-1825): Daughter of Sarah Jackson Wendell Holmes (1768-1862) and Abiel Holmes (1763-1837); married in 1822 Dr. Usher Parsons (d. 1868; Harvard 1818).

Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877): Daughter of Sarah Jackson Wendell Holmes (1768-1862) and Abiel Holmes (1763-1837); married in 1826 Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875).

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): Son of Sarah Jackson Wendell Holmes (1768-1862) and Abiel Holmes (1763-1837); Harvard 1829; married in 1840 Amelia Lee Jackson (d. 1888).

John Holmes (1812-1899): Son of Sarah Jackson Wendell Holmes (1768-1862) and Abiel Holmes (1763-1837); Harvard 1832.

Generation 8

Anna E. Wendell: Daughter of Isaac Wendell (b. 1786) and Ann Austin Whittier Wendell.

Isaac P. Wendell: Son of Isaac Wendell (b. 1786) and Ann Austin Whittier Wendell.

Dr. Charles William Parsons (1824-1893): Son of Mary Jackson Holmes Parsons (1802-1825) and Dr. Usher Parsons (d. 1868); Harvard 1840.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935): Son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Amelia Lee Jackson Holmes (d. 1888); married in 1872 Fanny Bowditch Dixwell.

Amelia Jackson Holmes Sargent (1843-1889): Daughter of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Amelia Lee Jackson Holmes (d. 1888); married in 1871 John T. W. Sargent.

Edward Jackson Holmes (1846-1884): Son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Amelia Lee Jackson Holmes (d. 1888); married in 1871 Henrietta Wigglesworth.

Upham Family

Generation 1

John Upham (1600?-1681): Married first Elizabeth Webb; married second in 1671 Katherine Holland.

Generation 2

Phinehas Upham (1635-1676): Son of John Upham (1600?-1681) and Elizabeth Webb Upham; married in 1658 Ruth Wood.

Generation 3

Phinehas Upham (1659-1720): Son of Phinehas Upham (1635-1676) and Ruth Wood Upham; married in 1698 Mary Mellen.

Nathaniel Upham (1661-1717): Son of Phinehas Upham (1635-1676) and Ruth Wood Upham; married Sarah Floyd.

John Upham (1666-1733): Son of Phinehas Upham (1635-1676) and Ruth Wood Upham; married first Abigail Hayward; married second Thomasin Ong.

Thomas Upham (1668-1735): Son of Phinehas Upham (1635-1676) and Ruth Wood Upham; married first in 1693 Elizabeth Hovey; married second in 1704 Mary Brown; married third Ruth Cutler Smith.

Richard Upham (1673-1734): Son of Phinehas Upham (1635-1676) and Ruth Wood Upham; married in 1698 Abigail Hovey.

Generation 4

Phinehas Upham (1682-1766): Son of Phinehas Upham (1659-1720) and Mary Mellen Upham; married in 1703 Thomasin Hill (1685-1768).

Ebenezer Upham: Son of Phinehas Upham (1659-1720) and Mary Mellen Upham; married in 1717 Elizabeth Blanchard.

Nathaniel Upham (1686-1765): Son of Nathaniel Upham (1661-1717) and Sarah Floyd Upham; married in 1706 Mary Tuthill.

John Upham (1690-1783): Son of John Upham (1666-1733) and Abigail Hayward Upham; married first in 1727 Sarah Burnal; married second Deliverance Fowle.

Thomas Upham (1694-1730): Son of Thomas Upham (1668-1735) and Elizabeth Hovey Upham; married Ruth Smith (1694-1722).

Abijah Upham (1698-1775): Son of Thomas Upham (1668-1735) and Elizabeth Hovey Upham; married in 1725 Elizabeth Spring.

Josiah Upham (1705-1772): Son of Thomas Upham (1668-1735) and Mary Brown Upham; married in 1732 Judith Train.

Joseph Upham (1712-1792): Son of Thomas Upham (1668-1735) and Ruth Cutler Smith Upham; married in 1739 Elizabeth Richardson (1715-ca. 1765).

Richard Upham (1716-1780): Son of Richard Upham (1673-1734) and Abigail Hovey Upham.

Generation 5

Timothy Upham (1710-1781): Son of Phinehas Upham (1682-1766) and Thomasin Hill Upham (1685-1768); married in 1739 Mary Cheever (1720-1801).

Isaac Upham (1714-1792): Son of Phinehas Upham (1682-1766) and Thomasin Hill Upham (1685-1768); married Anna Gilbert (b. 1725).

Dr. Jabez Upham (1717-1760): Son of Phinehas Upham (1682-1766) and Thomasin Hill Upham (1685-1768); married Katherine Nichols (1722-1774).

Amos Upham (1718-1786): Son of Phinehas Upham (1682-1766) and Thomasin Hill Upham (1685-1768); married Lois Green.

Caleb Upham (1723-1786): Son of Ebenezer Upham and Elizabeth Blanchard Upham; Harvard 1744; married Priscilla Allen.

Nathaniel Upham (b. 1715): Son of Nathaniel Upham (1686-1765) and Mary Tuthill Upham; married Rebecca Diel.

Thomas Upham (1718-1780): Son of Thomas Upham (1694-1730) and Ruth Smith Upham (1694-1722); married in 1772 Martha Williams.

Abijah Upham (b. 1726): Son of Abijah Upham (1698-1775) and Elizabeth Spring Upham.

Josiah Upham (b. 1733): Son of Josiah Upham (1705-1772) and Judith Train Upham; married in 1774 Sarah Jamison.

Joseph Upham (b. 1740): Son of Joseph Upham (1712-1792) and Elizabeth Richardson Upham (1715-ca. 1765); married in 1765 Eunice Kidder (b. 1735).

Generation 6

Timothy Upham (1748-1811): Son of Timothy Upham (1710-1781) and Mary Cheever Upham (1720-1801); married in 1773 Hannah Gookin (1754-1797).

Nathan Upham (1750-1828): Son of Isaac Upham (1714-1792) and Anna Gilbert Upham (b. 1725); married Eleanor Gilbert (1752-1843).

Daniel Upham (1762-1833): Son of Isaac Upham (1714-1792) and Anna Gilbert Upham (b. 1725).

Phinehas Upham (1739-1810): Son of Dr. Jabez Upham (1717-1760) and Katherine Nichols Upham (1722-1774); married Susanna Buckminster.

Joshua Upham (1741-1808): Son of Dr. Jabez Upham (1717-1760) and Katherine Nichols Upham (1722-1774); Harvard 1763; married first in 1768 Elizabeth Murray (d. 1782), daughter of Col. John Murray; married second Mary Chandler (d. 1826), daughter of Joshua Chandler.

Jabez Upham (1747-1822): Son of Dr. Jabez Upham (1717-1760) and Katherine Nichols Upham (1722-1774); married Bethia Cutler (1753-1834).

Edward Upham (1760-1807): Son of Dr. Jabez Upham (1717-1760) and Katherine Nichols Upham (1722-1774); married Mary Catlin (1764-1833).

Amos Upham (b. 1741): Son of Amos Upham (1718-1786) and Lois Green Upham; married Anna Knight.

Nathaniel Upham (1745-1833): Son of Nathaniel Upham (b. 1715) and Rebecca Diel Upham; married first Abigail Ward; married second in 1814 Phebe Kimball.

Nathan Upham (1773-1812): Son of Thomas Upham (1718-1780) and Martha Williams Upham; married in 1798 Lydia Dix (d. 1872).

Sylvanus Upham (1778-1830): Son of Joseph Upham (b. 1740) and Eunice Kidder Upham (b. 1735); married in 1802 Mary Avery (1783-1859).

Generation 7

Nathaniel Upham (1774-1829): Son of Timothy Upham (1748-1811) and Hannah Gookin Upham (1754-1797); married in 1798 Judith Cogswell (1776-1837), daughter of Thomas and Ruth Badger Cogswell.

Timothy Upham (1782-1855): Son of Timothy Upham (1748-1811) and Hannah Gookin Upham (1754-1797); married Eliza Adams (1786-1854), daughter of William and Hannah Adams.

Pliny Upham (1779-1849): Son of Nathan Upham (1750-1828) and Eleanor Gilbert Upham (1752-1843); married in 1802 Katherine Hastings (1783-1859).

Jabez Upham (1764-1811): Son of Phinehas Upham (1739-1810) and Susanna Buckminster Upham; Harvard 1785; married Lucy Faulkner (1770-1828).

Thomas Upham (1766-1827): Son of Phinehas Upham (1739-1810) and Susanna Buckminster Upham.

George Baxter Upham (1768-1848): Son of Phinehas Upham (1739-1810) and Susanna Buckminster Upham; Harvard 1789; married in 1805 Mary Duncan.

Phinehas Upham (1776-1860): Son of Phinehas Upham (1739-1810) and Susanna Buckminster Upham; married in 1810 Mary Avery Baldwin (1790-1872).

Elizabeth Murray Upham (1771-1844): Daughter of Joshua Upham (1741-1808) and Elizabeth Murray Upham (d. 1782).

Sarah Green Upham Bliss (1777-1835): Daughter of Joshua Upham (1741-1808) and Elizabeth Murray Upham (d. 1782); married in 1797 John Murray Bliss (b. 1771).

Martha Sophia Upham Winniett (d. 1889): Daughter of Joshua Upham (1741-1808) and Mary Chandler Upham (d. 1826); married Alexander Winniett.

Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875): Son of Joshua Upham (1741-1808) and Mary Chandler Upham (d. 1826); Harvard 1821; married in 1826 Ann Susan Holmes (1804-1877).

Frances Chandler Upham Welden (1806-1844): Daughter of Joshua Upham (1741-1808) and Mary Chandler Upham (d. 1826); married John Wesley Welden.

William Upham (b. 1777): Son of Jabez Upham (1747-1822) and Bethia Cutler Upham (1753-1834).

Charles Jarvis Upham: Son of Edward Upham (1760-1807) and Mary Catlin Upham (1764-1833); married Elizabeth Clary.

Mary Upham: Daughter of Edward Upham (1760-1807) and Mary Catlin Upham (1764-1833).

Katherine Upham: Daughter of Edward Upham (1760-1807) and Mary Catlin Upham (1764-1833).

Samuel Sprague Upham (1777-1859): Son of Amos Upham and Anna Knight Upham; married Anna Foster.

Nathan Upham (1804-1874): Son of Nathan Upham (1773-1812) and Lydia Dix Upham (d. 1872).

Thomas Upham (b. 1811): Son of Nathan Upham (1773-1812) and Lydia Dix Upham (d. 1872).

Sylvanus Kidder Upham (b. 1811): Son of Sylvanus Upham (1778-1830) and Mary Avery Upham (1783-1859); married in 1839 Marianne Brooks (1819-1870).

Generation 8

Thomas Cogswell Upham (1799-1872): Son of Nathaniel Upham (1774-1829) and Judith Cogswell Upham (1776-1837); married Phebe Lord.

Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1801-1869): Son of Nathaniel Upham (1774-1829) and Judith Cogswell Upham (1776-1837); married first Betsy W. Lord (d. 1833); married second Eliza W. Burnham (d. 1882).

Joseph Badger Upham (1808-1889): Son of Nathaniel Upham (1774-1829) and Judith Cogswell Upham (1776-1837); married in 1833 Sarah Chase Currier.

Francis William Upham (1817-1895): Son of Nathaniel Upham (1774-1829) and Judith Cogswell Upham (1776-1837).

Dr. Albert Gookin Upham (1819-1847): Son of Nathaniel Upham (1774-1829) and Judith Cogswell Upham (1776-1837).

William Adams Upham (1812-1843): Son of Timothy Upham (1782-1855) and Eliza Adams Upham (1786-1854).

Joel Worthington Upham (1803-1879): Son of Pliny Upham (1779-1849) and Katherine Hastings Upham (1783-1859); married in 1831 Seraphine Howe (1804-1839).

Henry Upham (1799-1875): Son of Jabez Upham (1764-1811) and Lucy Faulkner Upham (1770-1828); Harvard 1819; married first Rebecca Means Appleton (d. 1859); married second Mary L. McCulloch Mayer.

Jabez Baxter Upham (1820-1889): Son of George Baxter Upham (1768-1848) and Mary Duncan Upham.

George Phinehas Upham (1826-1889): Son of Phinehas Upham (1776-1860) and Mary Avery Baldwin Upham (1790-1872); Harvard 1845; married Sarah Sprague.

Lucy A. Upham Parker: Daughter of Phinehas Upham (1776-1860) and Mary Avery Baldwin Upham (1790-1872); married in 1847 Henry Tuke Parker (1824-1890; Harvard 1842).

Elizabeth Murray Bliss: Daughter of Sarah Green Upham Bliss (1777-1835) and John Murray Bliss (b. 1771).

Thomas Wetmore Bliss: Son of Sarah Green Upham Bliss (1777-1835) and John Murray Bliss (b. 1771).

Edward Chandler Upham (1827-1838): Son of Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875) and Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877).

Charles Wentworth Upham (1830-1860): Son of Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875) and Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877); Harvard 1852; married in 1859 Mary Haven.

William Phinehas Upham (1836-1905): Son of Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875) and Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877); Harvard 1856; married in 1880 Cynthia B. Nourse (1851-1931).

Sarah Wendell Upham (1839-1864): Daughter of Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875) and Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877).

Oliver Wendell Holmes Upham (b. 1843): Son of Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875) and Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877); married Caroline Ely Wilson.

Charles W. Welden (b. 1830): Son of Frances Chandler Upham Welden (1806-1844) and John Wesley Welden.

Mary E. Welden: Daughter of Frances Chandler Upham Welden (1806-1844) and John Wesley Welden.

Rev. Frederick Upham (1799-1891): Son of Samuel Sprague Upham (1777-1859) and Anna Foster Upham; married Deborah Bourne (b. 1797).

Frank Kidder Upham (b. 1841): Son of Sylvanus Kidder Upham (b. 1811) and Marianne Brooks Upham (1819-1870); married in 1871 Sarah Elvira Camp (b. 1852).

Generation 9

Henry Pratt Upham (b. 1837): Son of Joel Worthington Upham (1803-1879) and Seraphine Howe Upham (1804-1839).

Susan Upham (b. 1859): Daughter of Henry Upham (1799-1875) and Rebecca Means Appleton Upham (d. 1859).

Mary Wendell Upham Clark (1881-1932): Daughter of William Phinehas Upham (1836-1905) and Cynthia B. Nourse Upham (1851-1931); married in 1906 Austin Hobart Clark (1880-1954; Harvard 1903).

Samuel Foster Upham (b. 1834): Son of Rev. Frederick Upham (1799-1891) and Deborah Bourne Upham (b. 1797); married in 1857 Lucy G. Smith (b. 1833).

Generation 10

Hugh Upham Clark (b. 1911): Son of Mary Wendell Upham Clark (1881-1932) and Austin Hobart Clark (1880-1954).

Collection Description

This microfilm edition consists of (1) the Hugh Upham Clark collection; (2) the Quincy family papers; (3) the Wendell family papers; (4) the Abiel Holmes papers; (5) the Mary Avery Upham diaries; and (6) papers related to members of the four families drawn from other MHS collections. All of the papers in this microfilm are held by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The Hugh Upham Clark collection contains papers of the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham families, all families from which Clark is descended. (Hugh Upham Clark owned the collection before giving it to the MHS in 1978.) The Quincy family papers consist of correspondence, diaries, commonplace books, notes on sermons, lectures, debates, essays, drawings, and other papers, as well as the journals of Margaret Quincy Greene (1806-1882) and the Quincy-Howe papers. The Wendell family papers contain material related to the Wendell family of Boston and Portsmouth, N.H., primarily the papers of Jacob Wendell, a prominent Boston merchant, and documents related to the development of Pittsfield, Mass. The Abiel Holmes papers consist of the papers of Congregational minister and historian Abiel Holmes, including correspondence with Jonathan Trumbull (1740-1809), Benjamin Trumbull (1735-1820), Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798), John Wheelock (1754-1817), and others; sermons; and writings, lectures, and notes on the ecclesiastical history of New England and the U.S. The Mary Avery (Baldwin) Upham diaries (6 vols.) contain descriptions of her daily activities and family events.

This microfilm edition also contains letters and papers from other MHS collections written by or to members of the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham families. Collections from which material was drawn include: the Adams papers, the John Albion Andrew papers, the George Bancroft papers, the Henry Whitney Bellows papers, the George Bemis papers, the Colburn autograph collection, the Dana family papers, the Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight papers, the George Edward Ellis papers, the Edward Everett papers, the Dwight Foster papers, the Gerry and Gerry-Knight papers, the Gould family papers, the Samuel Abbot Green papers, the Guild Library collection, the William Jenks papers, the Henry Knox papers, the Amos Adams Lawrence papers, the Horace Mann papers, the Minot papers, the Grenville Howland Norcross autograph collection, the Oliver family papers, the Robert Treat Paine papers, the Sir William Pepperrell papers, the Willard Phillips papers, the Timothy Pickering papers, the Saltonstall family papers, the John Osborne Sargent papers, the Shattuck family papers, the Lemuel Shaw papers, the Agnes C. Storer autograph collection, the Hermann Jackson Warner papers, the Warren family papers, the Washburn autograph collection, the James Morris Whiton papers, the Justin Winsor papers, the Winthrop papers, and many others.

The individuals most highly represented in this microfilm edition are: Abiel Holmes (1763-1837), John Holmes (1812-1899), Mary Jackson Holmes Parsons (1802-1825), Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Sarah Jackson Wendell Holmes (1768-1862), Abigail Phillips Quincy (1803-1893), Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston (1812-1899), Edmund Quincy (1681-1738), Edmund Quincy (1703-1788), Edmund Quincy (1732 or 3-1768), Edmund Quincy (1808-1877), Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884), Henry Quincy (1727-1780), Josiah Quincy (1710-1784), Josiah Quincy (1744-1775), Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910), Mary Apthorp Quincy Gould (1834-1883), Mary Jane Miller Quincy (1806-1874), Samuel Quincy (1735-1789), Samuel Miller Quincy (1832-1887), Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877), Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875), Joshua Upham (1741-1808), William Phinehas Upham (1836-1905), Abraham Wendell (1678-1734), Jacob Wendell (1691-1761), John Wendell (1703-1762), John Wendell (1731-1808), Mary Jackson Wendell (1740-1804), Oliver Wendell (1733-1818), and Sarah Oliver Wendell (1696-1762). Also included is correspondence of John Adams (1735-1826), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Simon Bradstreet (1603-1697), George Edward Ellis (1814-1894), John Hancock (1737-1793), Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810), John and Mary Mico, and Benjamin Trumbull with members of the four families.

Excluded from this microfilm are papers of individuals born after 1840; printed material, except enclosures or items containing information not available elsewhere in the collection; and related family papers held by other repositories. Also excluded are: miscellaneous genealogical papers, typescripts, and scrapbooks in the Quincy family papers; papers related to the New Hampshire-Massachusetts boundary controversy, 1732-1749, and duplicates of canceled notes, receipts, etc., in the Wendell family papers; and Holmes family papers unrelated to Abiel and Sarah Wendell Holmes. See below for an alphabetical index of all items in this collection.

This guide to the microfilm edition of the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham family papers supercedes the 1977 printed guide and index located on Reel 67.

Related Materials

The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections related to the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham family papers:

Wendell family papers. Ms. N-128. Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0010.

The shelflist to the Quincy family papers, available at http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0291, lists Quincy family materials that appear on this microfilm edition, as well as items that do not appear on the film.

Arrangement

The Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham family papers are organized into two series. Series I, the non-chronological papers (Reel 1-19), is arranged by family, then by individual from oldest to youngest. The papers of each individual are subdivided by type: (1) diaries, journals, memoirs, and letterbooks; (2) business and legal papers; and (3) compositions, lectures, sermons, etc., of a literary, historical, political, or religious nature. Series II (Reel 20-67) contains all loose papers and items removed from bound collections arranged in a single chronological sequence. Undated items are microfilmed alphabetically by author at the end of Reel 66.

Each document on the microfilm has a target identifying the writer, the addressee if any, the date, and the name of the collection in which the original is located. Targets also indicate which items are copies. When a draft or copy of an item exists, it has been included only if it is different from the original or if no original has been located. Envelopes have been microfilmed with their corresponding letters only when they contain additional text or information about the writer, addressee, or date. Transcripts, when available, have been included with the original documents. Blank pages have not been microfilmed.

Acquisition Information

The Quincy family papers were a gift of members and descendants of the Quincy family, 1795-1967, including Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Mark DeW. Howe, Quincy Howe, Edmund Quincy, Eliza Susan Quincy, and Quincy W. Wales. Other Quincy family papers were acquired by purchase. The Wendell family account book (1716-1760) was given by Bernhard Knollenberg in 1958, and the receipt book (1740-1750) was a gift of Henry Winchester Cunningham in 1923. Other Wendell family papers were given by Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes of Topsfield, Mass., 1954, and Mr. and Mrs. Barrett Wendell, 1910-1921. The Holmes family papers were given by Rev. Alexander McKenzie in 1875 and by Holmes's grandson, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1925. The 6-volume journal of Mary Avery Baldwin Upham was a gift from Mrs. Harold Buckminster Hayden in 1964. The Hugh Upham Clark collection was a gift from Hugh Upham Clark, 1978.

Organization of the Collection

The collection is organized into the following series:

Reel List

Index

This index contains all of the documents in the microfilm edition of the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham family papers. Entries include writers, addressees, and subjects of individual documents, followed by item descriptions, dates, and reel and frame numbers where those items are located. For example, the first entry "Abbot, Abiel" is followed by the description "Pastoral letter to congregation, 1827, 43:181." This indicates that Abiel Abbot's 1827 pastoral letter to the congregation is located on Reel 43, Frame 181.

With the exception of correspondence, items are listed in the order in which they appear on the reels. Correspondence is listed last after each main entry, divided into letters written and received, and arranged alphabetically by correspondent. A frame number in parenthesis indicates that the item is a transcript of the previous document. A lower-case "c" indicates that the item is a copy of an unlocated original.

The wives of Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham family members are indexed under their married names. However, women from the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham families are indexed under their maiden names, unless they married a member of one of the other three families, in which case they are indexed under their married names. For example, Mary Jackson Holmes Parsons (1802-1825), who married Usher Parsons, is indexed under her maiden name "Holmes, Mary Jackson." Ann Susan Holmes Upham (1804-1877), who married Charles W. Upham, is indexed under her married name "Upham, Ann Susan Holmes."

Note: Unfortunately, the frame numbers used in this index were excluded from the microfilm, so locating specific items can be challenging. However, each item on the microfilm is preceded by a labeled folder, and by stopping the film at a random spot, you can discover which item you're looking at by reading the label. Then refer to this index and find the frame number for that item, which will tell you where you are on the film.

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