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	JOSIAH QUINCY - LoveToKnow Article on JOSIAH QUINCY
		Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was a member of the Massachusetts Senate until 1820; in 182122 he was a member and speaker of the state House of Representatives, from which he resigned to become judge of the municipal court of Boston.
		Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) had two sonsJOSIAH PHILLIPS (1829-1910), a lawyer, who wrote, besides some verse, The Protection of Majorities (1876) and Double Taxation in Massachusetts (1889); and SAMUEL MILLER (1833-1887), who practised law, wrote on legal subjects, served in the Union army during the Civil War, and was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865.
		Quincy is served by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City, and the Wabash railways, and by lines of river steamers, which find an excellent harbour in Quincy Bay, an arm of the Mississippi.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Q/QU/QUINCY_JOSIAH.htm (1748 words)

	Quincy, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quincy was formed in 1792 and named for Colonel John Quincy, and was originally part of Braintree.
		Quincy was first settled by English immigrants in 1625, as Mount Wollaston (with a most unusual history), subsequently became part of Braintree, Massachusetts, was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1792, and made a city in 1888.
		Quincy was also an aviation pioneer; Dennison Field in the Squantum section of town dated from 1910, and was the site of some of the first aerial meets ever.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quincy,_Massachusetts (705 words)

	Josiah Quincy - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was a descendant of Edmund Quincy, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1633, and received in 1636 a grant of land at Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount, afterwards a part of Braintree and now Quincy.
		Josiah Quincy (February 4, 1772 - July 4, 1864) was a U.S. educator and political figure.
		Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was a member of the Massachusetts Senate until 1820; in 1821-22 he was a member and speaker of the state House of Representatives, from which he resigned to become judge of the municipal court of Boston.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Josiah_Quincy (532 words)

	Encyclopedia: Josiah Quincy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Josiah Quincy II Josiah Quincy II (February 23, 1744 - April 26, 1775) was a famous American lawyer.
		He was father of Josiah Quincy III, and son of the first Josiah Quincy (1709-1784).
		Josiah Quincy III (February 4, 1772 - July 4, 1864) was a U.S. educator and political figure.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Josiah-Quincy (1479 words)

	Josiah Quincy
		Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) was a Congressman, judge of the Massachusetts municipal court, state representative, mayor of Boston and president of Harvard College.
		Quincy's parents were Abigail Phillips and patriot leader Josiah Quincy, who died in 1775 returning from a diplomatic visit to Britain.
		Quincy's extensive papers, predominantly correspondence, journals and public speeches, are in the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/josiahquincy.html (1560 words)

	Edmund Quincy
		Quincy dreaded the extension of slavery, and foresaw that the existence of that institution was likely to bring on a civil war; but it was not evident then, as it is now, that a civil war in 1861 was greatly to be preferred to civil war or peaceable secession in 1805.
		Quincy's heart with a song; in a week from the day that he first met her and learned the fact of her existence he was engaged to be married to her.
		Quincy's recollections of such incidents of the Revolutionary war as came within her childish ken are especially interesting.--Their eldest son, Josiah, born in Boston, 17 January, 1802; died in Quincy, 2 November, 1882, was graduated at Harvard in 1821.
	www.famousamericans.net /edmundquincy (2813 words)

	Josiah Quincy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Josiah Quincy (February 23, 1744 - April 26, 1775) was afamous American lawyer.
		He was a descendant of Edmund Quincy, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1633, and received in 1636 a grant of land at Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount,afterwards a part of Braintree and now Quincy.
		Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was amember of the Massachusetts Senate until 1820; in 1821-22 he was a member and speaker of the state House of Representatives, fromwhich he resigned to become judge of the municipal court of Boston.
	www.therfcc.org /josiah-quincy-81256.html (425 words)

	Josiah Quincy's 1883 book (excerpt) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Quincy even protests, with the air of an uncle who is under some tyrannical surveillance, that he is not allowed to tell some excellent stories which he had set down.
		Quincy, jotting down his day's experience in his diary, the maidens with whom he danced and rode were wonderfully lovely and witty; to the old Mr.
		Quincy, turning over the leaves of his diary, and piecing out the records with his memory, the loveliness and wit are just as real and lasting.
	www.olivercowdery.com /smithhome/1880s-1890s/1883Quin.htm (8628 words)

	Freedom Trail: Josiah Quincy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), was born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts.
		His father, also named Josiah Quincy, vigorously denounced the Stamp Act and British colonial policies in a series of articles written under various pen names for Boston newspapers.
		In 1805 the younger Josiah became a member of the US Congress.
	www.ilovefreedom.com /freedom_trail/Josiah_Quincy.htm (84 words)

	iBoston - Your Guide to Massachusetts History
		The son of pre-Revolutionary patriot Josiah Quincy, Jr, he had served two terms in the US Congress, been Speaker of the Massachusetts House, and Judge of the Municipal Court of Boston.
		As the project became public Quincy creatively used his self appointed position as Surveyor of Highways to assert eminent domain, a privilege not previously given to the mayor.
		Quincy's son became Boston's 11th mayor, and succeeded in providing municipal water; Quincy's grandson was Boston's 32nd mayor.
	www.iboston.org /mcp.php?pid=josiahQuincy&laf=hpe (276 words)

	Josiah Quincy Statue in Boston, Erected in 1879 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Josiah Quincy is best known for his work as Mayor of Boston from 1823 to 1828.
		Josiah Quincy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1805, and was one of the first to denounce slavery.
		The Josiah Quincy Statue was sculpted by Thomas Ball, and erected in 1879.
	www.celebrateboston.com /sites/josiahquincystatue.htm (308 words)

	Quincy Historic Walking Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From 1817 to 1844, Quincy's Town Hall was on the second floor of this building and its one room school was on the first.
		This handsome Georgian country mansion, the home of political activist Josiah Quincy and his successors, was built in 1770, just as the new nation of America was beginning to chafe at the bit for its freedom.
		This is the spot from whih Abigail and her son, John Quincy Adams, watched Charlestown burn and heard the roar of guns and cannons during the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.
	ci.quincy.ma.us /tcpl/htm/quincy/walking.htm (1647 words)

	Josiah Quincy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Josiah Bartlett - From Virtualology A biography of Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, including a handwriting sample.
		Quincy Medical Group Quincy Medical Group is a multi specialty clinic with over 90 physicians and nurse practitioners located in Quincy, Illinois.
		Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce Providing agricultural, civic, commercial, and financial information for businesses in and near Quincy, George, Crescent Bar, Sunland Estates and Winchester.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Josiah_Quincy_.html (282 words)

	Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers: Finding Aid
		Edmund Quincy was good friends with Catharine Huntington and his papers, in BOX 123, contain five folders of letters to her in the 1930s.
		Josiah, the first child of Helen Frances Huntington and Josiah Quincy, was born on October 15, 1859.
		JOSIAH P. Josiah was the son of the Honorable Josiah Quincy of Boston.
	www.amherst.edu /library/archives/findingaids/pph/descript4.html (4255 words)

	AllRefer.com - Josiah Quincy, 1772–1864, American political leader and college president (U.S. History, Biography) ...
		Josiah Quincy 1772–1864, American political leader and college president, b.
		After studying law, Quincy became interested in politics and entered (1804) the state senate as a Federalist.
		The Federalists dropped him for insurgency in 1820 but Quincy was elected (1821) to the Massachusetts house of representatives, where he became speaker; he resigned to become a municipal court judge.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Q/Quincy-J2.html (364 words)

	Birthplace of the American Dream
		During the pre-Revolutionary War years, the Quincy Homestead was a meeting place for patriots such as John Adams, Josiah Quincy, Benjamin Franklin and Hancock.
		Built in 1770 as a country estate by revolutionary patriot Colonel Josiah Quincy, this colonial home is believed to have served as a lookout point from which patriots could observe British ships traveling in and out of Boston harbor.
		Colonel Quincy was the first in a long line of Josiah Quincys - a line that would produce three mayors of Boston and a president of Harvard University.
	www.discoverquincy.com /historicSites.htm (825 words)

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		Quincy, Josiah (4 Feb. 1772-1 July 1864), Federalist congressman, Boston mayor, and president of Harvard, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Quincy, Jr., a lawyer and revolutionary pamphleteer, and Abigail Phillips.
		Quincy's father died in 1775, leaving him to be raised by his mother and grandfather, Colonel Josiah Quincy.
		The activities of Quincy's older son, Josiah Quincy, Jr., a Whig and mayor of Boston, kept him attentive to local politics, while the abolitionist convictions of his younger son, Edmund Quincy, drew him into antislavery politics.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpX/Josiah%20Quincy.%20Federalist.htm (1456 words)

	Quincy Homestead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Recently designated a National Historic Landmark, the Quincy Homestead is significant for its role in early American history, for its architecture, and for its Quincy family association.
		The house was also the childhood home of Dorothy Quincy Hancock, the first First Lady of Massachusetts, the wife of John Hancock, the president of the Second Continental Congress, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first governor of the Commonwealth.
		In 1904 The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts purchased the Quincy Homestead, and then entered into a long-term cooperative relationship with the Commonwealth whereby the Commonwealth would own the property and would be responsible for maintaining the exterior of the house and grounds.
	www.nscda.org /ma/quincy_homestead.htm (562 words)

	QUINCY, JOSIAH (1744—1775) - Online Information article about QUINCY, JOSIAH (1744—1775) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Congress." Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was a member of the Massachusetts Senate until 182o; in 1821—22 he was a member and See also:
		JoSIAH QUINCY (1802-1882), son of the last-named, was mayor of Boston in 1845—1849, and author of Figures of the Past (1882); his brother EDMUND (1808—1877) was a prominent Abolitionist, and author of the See also:
		1859), a son of Josiah Phillips Quincy, was prominent in the Democratic party in Massachusetts, and was mayor of Boston in 1895—1899.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/QUINCY_JOSIAH_17441775_.html (1545 words)

	The Nation, 10/31/1867 - Josiah Quincy
		Edmund Quincy has not regarded it and he certainly has not in his own case furnished an example, which confirms the canon.
		...JOSIAH QUINCY THE literary canon which affirms that a 'biography ought not to be written, and...
		...Quincy was the first citizen of the United States who ever advanced the doctrine of absolute State sovereignty as a basis of the right of secession by a single State...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v005i0122_05.htm (2303 words)

	Old Park Street: Chapter 15
		Quincy was one of the first among Boston men “to denounce the slave-holding interest as a dangerous and rising tyranny.” He was President of Harvard College from 1829 to 1845, and wrote a History of the College.
		His library was given to the sons, Josiah and Edmund, with the proviso that the books should remain in the Park Street house during the lifetime of his daughters, or of any one of them; and, further, that the sons should always have free access to them.
		The Honorable Josiah Quincy, the younger (1802-82), a prominent citizen of Boston (Harvard, 1821), was Mayor of the City from 1846 to 1848.
	www.kellscraft.com /ParkStreet/parkstreetch15.html (933 words)

	Josiah Quincy - Portraits of Legislators On State House Third Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Quincy (1793 - 1875) was born at Lenox (MA), one of four children in a poor family.
		Quincy's brother went to sea, became a ship's captain and did well; but Quincy contracted scarlet fever as a boy and was unable to perform manual labor.
		Quincy was twice elected to the State House of Representatives (1824, 1825), and he continued his law practice, riding from one court term to another.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/legport3/quincy.html (492 words)

	Historical Journal of Massachusetts: Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston, ...
		Josiah Quincy, himself once closely associated with the Federalist elite, though in the late 1810s stridently independent of some of its policies, became the hero and leader of a coalition of Bay State Republicans and disaffected Federalists.
		Quincy's policies were admired by many, but they eventually created numerous enemies who combined to defeat his bid for a sixth term in the 1828 mayoral election.
		Quincy's role in all this was, as Crocker notes, in some respects a curious one.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3837/is_200101/ai_n8933903 (535 words)

	§26. Albert Gallatin; Roger Brooke Taney; Josiah Quincy; Edward Everett. XV. Publicists and Orators, ...
		Albert Gallatin; Roger Brooke Taney; Josiah Quincy; Edward Everett.
		Roger Brooke Taney (1777–1864), secretary of the treasury under Jackson, and chief justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864, was a learned jurist, whose fame was clouded for the later part of his life by his opinion in the Dred Scott case.
		Josiah Quincy (1772–1864), an orator of no mean power, represented during the earlier part of his life the narrow New England Federalism which was so bitterly opposed to the politics of Jefferson and Madison.
	www.bartleby.com /226/0626.html (395 words)

	Descendants - pafg523.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Josiah Bass FISKE was born on 25 Dec 1826 in Quincy, Norfolk, MA, United States.
		Josiah FISKE was born on 19 Jan 1830 in Northboro, Worcester, MA, United States.
		Josiah F. was born in 1838 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA, USA.
	www.alden.org /aldengen/pafg523.htm (2077 words)

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