1639-1930
Shelflist to the Collection
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| Creator: | Quincy family |
| Title: | Quincy family papers |
| Dates: | 1639-1930 |
| Physical Description: | 52
document boxes, 86 cased volumes, and 5 oversize boxes |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-764 |
| Microfilm Call Number: | P-347, 67 reels |
| Repository: | Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
library@masshist.org |
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Abstract:
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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.
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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 Negro
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.
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 (QP 89), contains photographs of
various views of Northamptonshire taken by commercial photographers, ca.
1897.
Most of the Quincy family papers are included on the Quincy, Wendell,
Holmes, and Upham family papers microfilm (P-347), along with papers of the
Wendell, Holmes, and Upham families held by the Massachusetts Historical
Society. The finding aid for the microfilm is available at:
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0280.
This guide is a shelflist only. Items are listed
according to their arrangement on the shelves, which is mostly by individual
family member.
Gift of members and descendants of the Quincy family, 1795-1967.
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.
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| Shelf Number | Contents |
| Anna Cabot Lowell (Quincy) Waterston (1812-1899)
See QP 107.
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| Edmund Quincy (1628-1698)
See QP 8.
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| Edmund Quincy (1681-1738) |
| QP 1 | | Commonplace book,
ca. 1694-1709
1 volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
I.2.
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| 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.
QP 5 and QP 6 were duplicates of QP 4 and have been
discarded. See also QP 128.
Note: The MHS also holds letters from Edmund Quincy to his daughter
Katherine and to various friends, 1739-1787, in Miscellaneous Manuscripts,
Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts, the Lemuel Shaw papers, the Samuel A. Green
papers, the Hancock family papers, the Dana family papers, the Robert Treat
Paine papers, and the Jacob Bigelow papers; about 70 letters to John Wendell,
1760-1767, in the Edmund Quincy letters [photostats]; and some letterbooks,
1728-1776, in the Jeremy Belknap papers.
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| QP 2 | | "Edmund Quincy's Letter Book,"
1727-1776
1 bound volume
On 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.
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| QP 3 | | Notes on sermons heard,
1730-1731
1 narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
III.2.
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| QP 4 | | Commonplace book,
1737-1776 [photostat
only]
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
II.2.
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| QP 7 | | Account book,
1764-1765
1 narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
III.1.
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| QP 8 | | "Commonplace Book,"
1773-1776 [case label is
incorrect--should say Commonplace book, 1665-1738]
1 bound volume
On 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.
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| QP 9 | | Letterbooks,
1776-1783 [incorrectly labeled--should
say 1776-1784]
1 oversize box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
II.4.
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| QP 9A | | Transcripts of letters to family members and others,
1722-1814
1 box
See list of original letters in Quincy, Wendell,
Holmes, Upham index.
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| QP 10 | | Letters to Ebenezer Parkman,
1722-1814
1 narrow box
In letterbooks (QP 9, above) and dispersed throughout
chronological letters; see index to the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham
microfilm.
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| QP 10A-10B | | Edmund Quincy letters,
1750-1827
1 box
On 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.
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| QP 10C | | 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.
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| Edmund Quincy (1733-1768) |
| QP 11 | | Letterbook,
1755-1764
1 narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
III.6.
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| 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.
There is no QP 21. For other materials related to
Edmund Quincy (1808-1877), see the Quincy scrapbooks, QP 114-119.
Note: The MHS also holds about 20 letters from Edmund Quincy to various
persons in the Amos A. Lawrence papers, the Dana family papers, the Grenville
H. Norcross autograph collection, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, the Hancock family
papers, the Lemuel Shaw papers, the Winthrop family papers, the John A. Andrew
papers, and the Theodore F. Dwight papers. The Adams Papers contains Edmund
Quincy's correspondence with John Quincy Adams, 1838-1842 (4 letters), and
Charles Francis Adams, 1846-1875 (8 letters).
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| QP 12 | | Journal, Vol. 1,
26 Sep. 1824-22 Jan. 1826
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VIII.1.
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| QP 13 | | Journal, Vol. 2,
23 Jan. 1826-14 Jan. 1827
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VIII.2.
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| QP 14 | | Journal, Vol. 3,
15 Jan. 1827-25 Apr. 1828
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VIII.3.
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| QP 15 | | Journal, Vol. 4,
26 Apr. 1828-31 Oct. 1830
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VIII.4.
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| QP 16 | | Journal, Vol. 5,
1 Nov. 1830-8 July 1832
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VIII.5.
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| QP 17 | | Journal, Vol. 6,
9 July 1832-31 Mar. 1837
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VIII.6.
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| QP 18 | | Journal, Vol. 7,
1 Apr. 1837-14 June 1841
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VIII.7.
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| QP 19 | | Journal, Vol. 8,
15 June 1841-12 Nov. 1844
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IX.1.
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| QP 20 | | Journal, Vol. 9,
13 Nov. 1844-3 Sep. 1850
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IX.2.
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| QP 22 | | 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.
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| QP 23 | | Letters from Wendell Phillips and others,
1837-1877
1 box
Dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm;
see index.
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| QP 24 | | Early lectures, debates, and letters,
1733-1851
1 box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Lectures
on reel IX.3 and IX.5. Letters dispersed; see index for complete
list.
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| QP 25-31 | | Letters and memorandum books,
1851-1857
1 box
Letters 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.
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| QP 32-38 | | Memorandum books,
1857-1861
1 box
Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; not on Quincy,
Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
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| QP 39-40 | | Memorandum books,
1863-1866
1 box
Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; not on Quincy,
Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
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| QP 41 | | Newspaper clippings of his obituaries and reviews of the reissues of
his books,
1808-1885
1 narrow box
Not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham
microfilm.
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| QP 42 | | Miscellaneous papers
3 boxes
On 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.
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| Edmund Quincy (1834-1894) |
| QP 42A | | Journal,
28 Apr.-2 Nov. 1852
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
XI.8.
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| 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.
For other materials related to Eliza Susan Quincy
(1798-1884), see the Quincy scrapbooks, QP 108-112.
Note: The MHS also holds 13 letters of Eliza Susan Quincy in the R. C.
Waterston autograph collection, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, and (especially) the
Winthrop family papers. The Adams Papers contains Eliza Susan Quincy's
correspondence with John Quincy Adams, 1831-1846 (10 letters), and Charles
Francis Adams, 1853-1877 (5 letters).
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| QP 43 | | Journal,
16 Sep. 1814-30 Sep. 1821, annotated by Eliza Susan Quincy
in
1870
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
V.7.
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| QP 43.5 | | Scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to Lafayette's visit,
1824-1834
1 bound volume
Not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham
microfilm.
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| QP 44 | | "Journal of Lafayette's Visit,
1824-1825"
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
VII.1.
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| QP 45 | | 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.
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| QP 46 | | 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.
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| QP 47 | | Letter to Samuel Adams Drake containing reminiscences about Boston,
Anna Lowell, Amory Lowell,
1862-1873
1 narrow box
Dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
Letters to Drake on reel 61. See index.
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| QP 48 | | Letters to George T. Gill about maintenance of the grave of Josiah
Quincy (1744-1775),
1881
1 folder in box with QP 47
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel 64;
see index.
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| Helen Frances (Huntington) Quincy (1831-1903)
See QP 70.
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| Henry Quincy (1727-1780)
See QP 128.
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| Henry Parker Quincy (1838-1899) |
| QP 49 | | Miscellaneous letters and lectures,
1850-1854
1 folder in box with QP 47 and QP 48
On 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.
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| John Quincy (1689-1767) |
| QP 50 | | "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 volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
I.5.
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| John Williams Quincy (1769-1834)
See QP 10B and QP 86.
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| 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.
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| QP 51 | | "Josiah Quincy, Jr., Papers": manuscript material about early
history and genealogy of Quincy family, compiled by Eliza Susan
Quincy
1 box
Dispersed 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.
Note: The MHS also holds 11 letters from Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) to
various persons, 1760-1775, in Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Miscellaneous Bound
Manuscripts, the Dana family papers, the John Thomas papers, the Winthrop
family papers, and the Henry Knox papers. The Adams Papers contains
correspondence of Josiah Quincy (1710-1784) with John Adams, 1759-1776 (14
letters).
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| QP 52 | | Transcript of journal of Josiah Cotton (1680-1756), with scattered
entries through
1725
Removed to Ms. S-299.
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| QP 53 | | Inventory of books, furniture, bond and notes, and personal
estate
1 folder in box with QP 51
Identified as Catalog of library and list of bonds,
1775, on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm, reel IV.7.
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| QP 54 | | "Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Reports,
1771-1772": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts
courts
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IV.5.
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| QP 55 | | "Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports,
1762-1763": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts
courts
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IV.1.
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| QP 56 | | "Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports,
1763": commonplace book of law decisions and reports of
adjudications in Massachusetts courts
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IV.2.
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| QP 57 | | "Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports,
1764": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts,
1764-1767
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IV.3.
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| QP 58 | | "Josiah Quincy, Jr.--Law Reports,
1765": reports of adjudications in Massachusetts courts,
1765-1769
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IV.4.
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| QP 59 | | Commonplace book on topics of law and government,
June 1770-1774
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IV.8.
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| QP 60 | | "Copies of law reports belonging to E. Rutledge," copied by Josiah
Quincy (1744-1775),
1773
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
IV.6.
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| QP 61 | | 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 volume
On 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 QP 62.
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| QP 62 | | Original manuscript journal of trip to England,
23 Sep. 1774-3 Mar. 1775
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
III.9.
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| QP 63 | | "Observations on the Boston Port Bill": manuscript draft and printed
version,
1774
1 disbound volume in narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
V.1.
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| 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.
Note: The MHS also holds about 125 letters of Josiah Quincy in various
collections. The Adams Papers contains Josiah Quincy's correspondence with John
Adams, 1796-1825 (20 letters); John Quincy Adams, 1804-1845 (about 65 letters);
and Charles Francis Adams, 1838-1863 (about 40 letters).
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| QP 64 | | Journal of trip in southern New England,
3-17 June 1801
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
V.3.
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| QP 65 | | Journal and notes on English history,
1805-1806, with one entry in
1820
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
V.4.
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| QP 66 | | Journal and commonplace book,
1 Dec. 1818-Jan. 1828
1 bound volume
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
V.5.
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| QP 67 | | Record of sermons,
1819-1829
1 bound volume
Not on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham
microfilm.
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| QP 68 | | Journal of visit to Washington,
3 Feb.-6 Mar. 1829
1 narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
V.6.
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| QP 69 | | "Josiah Quincy II Papers, or Quincy Autograph Collection,"
1612-1881
2 boxes
Dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm;
see index.
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| QP 70 | | "Quincy-Howe Family Papers
1809-1944" and Eliza Susan Quincy commonplace book,
1818-1825
2 boxes and 1 narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Includes
Eliza Susan Quincy's commonplace book on reel VII.3 (misidentified as QP 130 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.
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| Josiah Quincy (1802-1882)
For other materials related to the career of Josiah
Quincy (1802-1882), see the Quincy scrapbooks, QP 113.
Note: The MHS also holds about 10 letters of Josiah Quincy in the Sedgwick
family papers, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, the Horace Mann papers III, and the
Alexander Calvin and Ellen Morton Washburn autograph collection. The Adams
Papers contains Josiah Quincy's correspondence with John Quincy Adams,
1833-1847 (6 letters), and Charles Francis Adams, 1857-1866 (5 letters).
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| QP 71 | | 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.
Note: The MHS also holds seven letters from Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy to
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, 1839-1864, in the Horace Mann collection.
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| Josiah Quincy (1859-1919)
Some select early items in QP 72 are on the Quincy,
Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm; see index. The remainder of these materials
do not appear on the microfilm.
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| QP 72 | | Letters, papers, etc.,
1639-1897
2 boxes |
| QP 73 | | Letters, papers, etc.,
1859-1919
1 box |
| QP 74 | | Letters, papers, etc.,
1905
3 boxes |
| QP 75 | | Letters, papers, etc.,
1906-1916
1 box |
| QP 76 | | Letters, papers, etc.,
1917-1930
1 box and 1 narrow box |
| QP 77A | | Scrapbook [No.1]: clippings related to career of Josiah Quincy
(1859-1919) and numerous obituaries,
1881-1919
1 bound volume |
| QP 77B | | Scrapbook [No. 2]: clippings related to Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy
and others
1 bound volume |
| QP 77C | | Diary of Josiah Quincy, Jr.,
1 Jan.-10 June 1881
1 narrow box |
| QP 77D | | Address book, undated
1 folder in box with QP 77C |
| QP 77E | | Mary Honey's book of poems,
1893
1 folder in box with QP 77C and QP 77D |
| QP 77F | | Miscellaneous papers,
1896
1 folder in box with QP 77C-77E |
| QP 78 | | Scrapbook [No. 3]: newspaper clippings on various subjects,
especially Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) and his family, and numerous drawings and
cartoons,
1885-1904
1 bound volume |
| QP 79 | | Scrapbook [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 volume |
| QP 80 | | Scrapbook [No. 5]: newspaper clippings of articles by Josiah Quincy
(1859-1919) and about his mayoralty and related political matters,
1895 and undated
1 bound volume |
| QP 81 | | Scrapbook: letters, cards, and telegrams related to the death of
Mrs. Samuel R. Honey, mother-in-law of Mary Honey,
1900
1 bound volume |
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| Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910)
For other materials related to Josiah Phillips Quincy
(1829-1910), see the Quincy scrapbooks, QP 120-127.
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| QP 82 | | Typescript of story "The Esoteric Department" and memorandum
discussing it,
1889
1 narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
XI.6.
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| Margaret Morton (Quincy) Greene (1806-1882)
See QP 107.
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| Maria Sophia Quincy (1805-1886)
See QP 107.
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| Mary Perkins Quincy (b. 1866) "Quinciana"
There is no volume numbered "XII." These items are not
included on the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm.
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| QP 83 | | Letters and miscellaneous material related to Quincy family history,
1845-1916
1 box |
| QP 84-85 | | Family history and records: miscellaneous material, especially
related to Quincy family's European background,
1845-1916
3 boxes |
| QP 86 | | Family history and records: miscellaneous material related to
Quincys in England and early America,
1845-1916
1 oversize case
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Includes
John Williams Quincy's (1813-1883) 1836 journal of visits on reel
XI.5.
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| QP 87 | | 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 volumes |
| QP 88 | | Family history and records: miscellaneous material mainly related to
Quincy connections by marriage in America,
1845-1916
2 boxes |
| QP 89 | | Family history and records: miscellaneous material about Quincy
family in Europe and America,
1845-1916
1 oversize case and 5 bound volumes |
| QP 90 | | "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 |
| QP 91 | | "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 |
| QP 92 | | "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 |
| QP 93 | | "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 |
| QP 94 | | "V: Interregnum 1264-1593-1600"
1 case |
| QP 95 | | "VI: Interregnum 1264-1593. The close of the Interregnum,
1593-1633"
1 case |
| QP 96 | | "VII: The Interregnum 1264-1593; close of the Interregnum
1593-1633"
1 case |
| QP 97 | | "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 |
| QP 98 | | "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 |
| QP 99 | | "X: An ancestral estate at Quincy"
1 case and 1 bound volume |
| QP 100 | | "XI: An ancestral estate at Quincy"
1 case |
| QP 101 | | "XIII: Reference to the name of Quincy in printed records, archives
and various collections"
1 case |
| QP 102 | | "XIV: Addenda"
1 case |
| QP 103 | | Families related to Quincys through marriages of Jacob Quincy (1760)
and his son John Williams Quincy I (1794)
1 box |
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| Samuel Quincy (1735-1789)
Note: The MHS also holds 22 letters from Samuel Quincy to Robert Treat
Paine, 1755-1772, in the Robert Treat Paine papers and a few Samuel Quincy
items in the Jonathan Trumbull historical papers, the Ezekiel Price papers, the
Samuel P. Savage papers, the Grenville H. Norcross autograph collection, and
the Smith-Carter family papers. The Adams Papers contains two letters from John
Adams to Samuel Quincy, 1759-1761.
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| QP 104 | | Diary in London,
Oct. 1776-Mar. [?] 1777
1 narrow box
On Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm: Reel
III.7.
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| QP 105 | | Letters to his family,
1758-1789, mostly
1775 and later
1 narrow box
Dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm;
see index.
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| QP 106 | | Letters, mostly as a soldier, to his family,
1861-1867
1 narrow box and 1 bound volume
Dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm;
see index.
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| Quincy sisters
For Eliza Susan Quincy's journal, 1814-1821, see QP
43.
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| QP 107 | | 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.
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| Quincy scrapbooks
These items are not included on the Quincy, Wendell,
Holmes, Upham microfilm.
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| | Eliza Susan Quincy |
| QP 108 | | | 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 volume |
| QP 109 | | | Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on local, family, historical, and
literary topics,
1875, compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 cased volume |
| QP 110 | | | Scrapbook of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, mostly undated,
[ca. 1870], compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy
1 cased volume |
| QP 111 | | | Scrapbook of miscellaneous newspaper clippings,
1871 and earlier, compiled by Eliza Susan
Quincy
1 cased volume |
| QP 112 | | | Scrapbook of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, including articles
on the death of John Quincy Adams,
1848-1851, compiled by Eliza Susan Quincy,
1872
1 cased volume |
| | Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) |
| QP 113 | | | Scrapbook of material about mayoral campaigns and activities of
Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) in the 1840s,
1841-1881
1 cased volume |
| | Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) |
| QP 114 | | | 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 volume |
| QP 115 | | | Scrapbook 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 volume |
| QP 116 | | | Scrapbook of editorials written by Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) for New
York Anti-Slavery Standard on current topics,
1854-1862
1 cased volume |
| QP 117 | | | Scrapbook of editorials written by Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) for
unidentified newspapers,
1862-1869
1 cased volume |
| QP 118 | | | "Independent articles": scrapbook of newspaper clippings of Edmund
Quincy (1808-1877) on various subjects,
23 Jan. 1870-25 Aug. 1872
1 cased volume |
| QP 119 | | | Scrapbook of unsigned contributions by Edmund Quincy (1808-1877) to
the Independent,
1872-1873
1 cased volume |
| | Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910) |
| QP 120 | | | Scrapbook of newspaper clippings of Josiah Phillips Quincy
(1829-1910) under the pseudonym "JPQ," undated
1 cased volume |
| QP 121 | | | "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 volume |
| QP 122 | | | Scrapbook 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 volume |
| QP 123 | | | Scrapbook of reviews of literary works of Josiah Phillips Quincy
(1829-1910) and notices of his lectures,
1854-1889
1 cased volume |
| QP 124 | | | Scrapbook 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 volume |
| QP 125 | | | Scrapbook 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 volume |
| QP 126 | | | Scrapbooks 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 volumes |
| QP 127 | | | Scrapbook 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 volume |
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| QP 128 | | "Quincy Papers-Miscellaneous": small group of letters written by
Edmund Quincy (1703-1788) and his son Henry Quincy (1727-1780),
1772-1777
1 narrow box
Dispersed on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham microfilm;
see index.
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| QP 129 | | 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.
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| QP 130 | | 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 volumes
Some items on Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham
microfilm; see reel notes above.
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Quincy family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in
ABIGAIL,
the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers
desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should
search the catalog using these headings.
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| Persons: |
| | Quincy, Edmund, 1681-1738. |
| | Quincy, Edmund, 1703-1788. |
| | Quincy, Edmund, 1732 or 3-1768. |
| | Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877. |
| | Quincy, Edmund, 1834-1894. |
| | Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884. |
| | Quincy, John, 1689-1767. |
| | Quincy, Josiah, 1744-1775. |
| | Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864. |
| | Quincy, Josiah, 1802-1882. |
| | Quincy, Josiah, 1859-1919. |
| | Quincy, Mary Perkins. |
| | Quincy, Samuel, 1735-1789. |
| | Quincy, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller),
1833-1887. |
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| Organizations: |
| | United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry
Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864). |
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| Subjects: |
| | Commonplace-books. |
| | Justices of the peace--Massachusetts--Suffolk
County. |
| | Northamptonshire
(England)--Photographs. |
| | Scrapbooks. |
| | Suffolk County (Mass.)--Politics and
government. |
| | United States--History--Civil War,
1861-1865--Personal narratives. |
| | United States--History--Civil War,
1861-1865--Regimental histories--Massachusetts Infantry, 2nd
Volunteers. |
| | Voyages and travels--Photographs. |
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.
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