JONATHAN
SEWALL.
ATTORNEY
GENERAL OF MASSACHUSETTS.
The
family of Sewall is traced to two brothers, Henry, and William Sewall,
both Mayors of Coventry, England, Henry Sewall born about 1544, was a Linen
Draper, Alderman of Coventry, Mayor in 1589 and 1606. Died 1628, aged 84.
Buried in St. Michael’s Church, Coventry.
Married
Margaret, eldest daughter of Avery Grazebrook.
Their
son Henry Sewall, emigrated to New England in 1634[1].
He came over “out of dislike to the English Hierarchy[2]”
and settled at Newbury. He died at Rowley in 1657, aged 86 years. Married
Anne Hunt. They brought with them their son, Henry Sewall[3],
born in Coventry, in 1614, died in 1700, aged 86. Married Jane Dummer in
Newbury, 1646. He went back to England and resided for some years at Warwick.
In 1659 he returned to New England, “his rents at Newbury coming to very
little when remitted to England.” His son Stephen was born at Badesly,
England, in 1657. He came to New England in 1661, settled at Salem and
was a Major in the Indian wars. He died in 1725. Married Margaret, daughter
of Rev. Jonathan Mitchell of Cambridge in 1682. They had an only son Jonathan,
who was a merchant at Boston. He married Mary, sister of Edward Payne,
of Boston. They had a son,
JUDGE
JONATHAN SEWALL, the
subject of this notice. He was born at Boston in 1728. Graduated at Harvard
College in 1748, and was a teacher at Salem till 1756. He married Esther,
daughter of Edmund Quincy, Esq.. of Braintree, afterwards of Boston, and
sister of Dorothy Quincy, wife of Governor Hancock, and of Elizabeth Quincy,
wife of Samuel Sewall, of Boston, the father of Samuel Sewall, Chief Justice
of Massachusetts. Jonathan Sewall studied law with Judge Chambers Russell,
of Lincoln, commenced practice in his profession at Charlestown. He was
an able and successful lawyer. He was Solicitor General, and his eloquence
is represented as having been soft, smooth and insinuating, which gave
him as much power over a jury as a lawyer ought ever to possess. At the
death of Jeremy Gridley, he was appointed Attorney-General of Massachusetts,
September, 1767. In 1768 he was appointed Judge of Admiralty for Nova Scotia.
He went there twice in that capacity, and remained but a short period.
He
was a gentleman and a scholar. He possessed a lively wit, a brilliant
imagination, great subtlety of reasoning and an insinuating eloquence.
He
was an intimate friend of John Adams, they studied together in Judge Russell’s
office, and afterwards, while attending court, they lived together, frequently
slept in the same chamber, and often in the same bed, and besides the two
young men were in constant correspondence.
He
attempted to dissuade John Adams from attending the first Continental
Congress, and it was in reply to his arguments, and as they walked on the
Great Hill at Portland, that Adams used the memorable words, used so often
afterwards in 1861 when the ordinance of secession was passed: “The die
is now cast, I have now passed the Rubicon; sink or swim, live or die,
survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination.” They
parted, and met no more until 1788. Adams, the Minister of the new republic
at the Court of St. James, and the eloquent and gifted Sewall, true to
the Empire, met in London, Adams laying aside all etiquette made a visit
to his old friend and countryman, he said, “I ordered my servant to announce
John Adams, I was instantly admitted, and both of us forgetting that we
had ever been enemies, embraced each other as cordially as ever. I had
two hours conversation with him in a most delightful freedom, upon a multitude
of subjects.” In the course of the interview, Mr. Sewall remarked that
he had existed for the sake of his two children, that he had spared no
pains or expense in their education and that he was going to Nova
Scotia in hope of making some provision for them.
In
1774, he was an Addresser of Governor Hutchinson, and in September of that
year his elegant home in Cambridge (which he rented from John Vassal, afterwards
Washington’s head-quarters, since occupied by the poet Longfellow) was
attacked by the mob and much injured. He fled to Boston to escape from
the fury of the disunionists. He had ably vindicated the characters of
Governors Bernard, Hutchinson and Oliver, he was esteemed an able writer,
and a staunch loyalist. He was proscribed in the Conspirators Act
of 1779. He resided chiefly in Bristol till 1788, for the education of
his children, then he removed to St. John’s, N. B., having been appointed
Judge of Admiralty for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. He immediately entered
upon the duties of his office, which he held till his death, which occurred
September 26, 1796, at the age of sixty-eight. His widow survived him,
and removed to Montreal, where she died January 21, 1810.
JONATHAN
SEWALL, son of the
aforesaid, was born at Cambridge, 1766, was educated at Bristol, England,
and afterwards resided at Quebec, where he occupied the offices of
Solicitor and Attorney General and Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court, until
r8o8, when he was appointed Chief Justice of Lower Canada, which he resigned
in 1838. For many years he was President of the Executive Council, and
Speaker of the Legislative Council.
In
1832 he received the degree of Doctor of Law from Harvard College.
He died at Quebec in 1840, aged seventy-three. His son Stephen[4]
was Solicitor General of the same Province in 1810 and resided in Montreal.
He died there of Asiatic cholera in the summer of 1832.
SAMUEL
SEWALL, son of Henry Sewall and brother of Major Stephen Sewall, was
the first chief justice of Massachusetts. This was the famous Sewall that
sat in judgment upon the witches and afterwards repented it, who refused
to sell an inch of his broad acres to the hated Episcopalians to build
a church upon, who was one of the richest, most astute, sagacious, scholarly,
bigoted[5]
and influential men of his day, who has left us in his Diary a transcript
almost vivid in its conscientious faithfulness of that old time life,
where he tells us of the courts he held, the drams he drank, the sermons
he heard, the petty affairs of his own household and neighborhood,
and where he advised with the governor touching matters of life and death.
He married Hannah, the only child of John Hull, the mintmaster, who it
is said gave her, on her marriage, a settlement in pine tree shillings
equal to her weight. Hull owned a large farm of 350 acres in Longwood,
Brookline, which descended to his son-in-law, and was known afterwards
as Sewall’s Farm.
Samuel
Sewall, son of the aforesaid, married Rebecca Dudley, a daughter of the
governor. His son, Henry Sewall, born in 1719, died in 1771, was a gentleman
much respected, and a lawyer of prominence. His son,
SAMUEL
SEWALL, the subject
of this article, was born at Brookline, December 31, 1745. Graduated at
Harvard College in 1761. He studied law and settled in Boston. His name
occurs among the barristers and attorneys who addressed Governor Hutchinson
in 1774, and in the Banishment and Proscription Act in 1778, when his large
estate which he had inherited from his ancestors, was confiscated. He went
to England, and in 1776 was a member of the Loyalist Club, London. Two
years later he was at Sidmouth, a “bathing town of mud walls and thatched
roofs.” In 1780 he was living in Bristol, and on the 19th of
June amused himself loyally celebrating Clinton’s success at Charleston
in the discharge of a two-pounder in a private garden, and three days later
was shot at by a highwayman and narrowly escaped with his life. Early in
1782 he was at Taunton, and at Sidmouth. He died at London, after one day’s
confinement to his room, May 6th, 1811, aged fifty-six years.
He was unmarried.
LIST OF CONFISCATED ESTATES
BELONGING TO SAMUEL SEWALL
IN SUFFOLK COUNTY AND
TO WHOM SOLD.
ToEdward
Kitchen, Wolcott, July 19, 1782; Lib. 135, fol. 113; Land 263 A, 1 qr.,
in Brookline, Thomas Aspinwall E.; marsh road to Charles River N.E.; Charles
River N.; Thomas Gardner and Moses Griggs S. and S.W.; Solomon Hill S.
and S.E. ——Land, 16 A. 3 qr., and half of house in Brookline on Sherburn
Road and the marsh lane, bounded by Capt. Cook, Samuel Craft and Elisha
Gardner.
To John
Heath, Nov. 12, 1782; Lib. 136, fol. 102; Land and buildings in Brookline.
9 A. 33 r., Sherburn Road S.E..; a town way N.E.; Mr. Aker N.W.; a town
way S.W.—32 A. 3 r., Daniel White and the pound S.W.; road and Joseph Williams
S.E.; Joshua Boylston and William Hyslop N.E.; Sherburn Road N.W.——18 A.
2 qr. 5 r., Samuel White N.W.; John Dean S.W. and S.; a town way S.E.;
said Dean N.E.; S. E. and S.; said town way E.; road N.E.—59 A. 3 qr. 4
r., Benjamin White and Dr. Winchester N.E.; Sarah Sharp S.W.; Samuel White
and heirs of Justice White S.E.; Benjamin White N.E.; S.E. and N.E.; Sherburn
Road N.E.—23 A. 3 qr. 33 r., Ebenezer Crafts and Caleb Gardner N.W.; said
Gardner and Benjamin White S.W.; Moses White S.E.; Benjamin White and Moses
White N.E.; Moses White S.E.; a town way N.E.—3 A. 28 r., Ebenezer Craft
SW.; S.E. and N.E.; the County line N.W.——8 A. 1 qr., 31 r., Daniel White
N.W.; the County line S.W.; David Cook S.E.; heirs of Ebenezer Davis N.E.—5
A. 2 qr. 38 r., said Craft N.W.; saw mill meadow W.; William Heath S. and
S.E.; Benjamin White and William Hammon N.E.—7 A. 2 qr., 32 r., Edward
K. Walcott S. and W.; Benjamin White S.; William Acker S.E.; John Child
E.; Charles River N.; Joseph Adams and Daniel White W.—4 A. 26 r., Moses
White W., Esquire White, Ebenezer Craft and a creek S.; Nehemiah Davis
and heirs of Caleb Denny S.E.; the marsh road N.
To John
Molineux, William Moilneux, Aug. 11, 1783; Lib. 139, fol. 153; Land and
buildings in Boston, Newbury St. W.; Daniel Crosby, John Solely and heirs
of Benjamin Church deceased S.; land late of Frederick William Geyer E.;
Thomas Fair-weather, Sampson Reed, John Homands and Edward Hollowday N.;
said Sewall W.; N.; W. and N.
ToJohn
McLane, Dec. 18, 1783; Lib. 140, fol. 207; Land and buildings in Boston,
Newbury St. W.; said Sewall S.; E.; S. and E.; Edward Hollowday N.
THOMAS
ROBIE.
William
and Elizabeth Robie were inhabitants of Boston as early as 1689, when their
son Thomas was born on March 20th of that year. He graduated
at Harvard College in 1708, and died in 1729. He was tutor, librarian,
and Fellow of the college. Be published an account of a remarkble eclipse
of the sun on Nov. 27, 1772, also in the Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society, papers on the Alkaline Salts, and the Venom of Spiders
(1720-24). The following extract from the diary of President Leverett shows
the estimation in which he was held. “It ought to be remembered that Mr.
Robie was no small honor to Harvard College by his mathematical performances,
and by his correspondence thereupon with Mr. Durham and other learned
persons in those studies abroad.” In mathematics and natural philosophy
he was said to have no equal in New England.
His
mother was Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of James Taylor, long treasurer of
the Province. He went to Salem and established himself in the practice
of physic, and married a daughter of Major Stephen Sewall.
THOMAS
ROBIE, of Marblehead,
was a son of the preceding Dr. Robie. He was a merchant, and married a
daughter of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet, who was the great grandson of Gov.
Bradstreet, called the Nestor of New England. Mr. Robie was a staunch loyalist,
was an Addresser of Gov. Hutchinson, and thus brought upon himself and
family the ire of the Revolutionists. They were obliged to leave the town
and take refuge in Nova Scotia. Crowds of people collected on the wharf
to witness their departure, and many irritating and insulting remarks were
addressed to them concerning their Tory principles, and their conduct towards
the Whigs. Provoked beyond endurance by these insulting taunts, Mrs. Robie
retorted, as she seated herself in the boat that was to convey her to the
ship: “I hope that I shall live to return, find this wicked rebellion crushed
and see the streets of Marblehead run with rebel blood.” The effect of
this remark was electrical among the Revolutionists and only her sex prevented
them from doing her person injury. But there were other loyalists in Marblehead
who, if not so demonstrative, were not less sincere in this opinion. With
fortitude and silence they bore the taunts and insults to which they were
subjected, honestly believing that their friends and neighbors were engaged
in a treasonable rebellion against their lawful sovereign.
Mr.
Robie first went to Halifax, but afterwards to London, Feb. 5, 1776. He
passed his time of exile mostly in Halifax, where one of his daughters
married Jonathan Stearns, Esq., another refugee; another was married to
Joseph Sewall, Esq., late treasurer of Massachusetts.
After
the war was over some of the refugees attempted to return to their former
homes. During the month of April, 1783, the town was thrown into a state
of the greatest excitement by the return of Stephen Blaney, one of the
loyalists. Rumors were prevalent that other refugees were also about to
return, and on April 24 a town meeting was held, when it was voted that
“All refugees who made their appearance in town were to be given six hours
notice to leave, and any who remained beyond that time were to be taken
into custody and shipped to the nearest port of Great Britain.” Late one
afternoon after this action of the town a vessel from the provinces arrived
in the harbor. It was soon ascertained that the detested Robie family were
on board, and, as the news spread through the town, the wharves were crowded
with angry people, threatening vengeance upon them if they attempted to
land. The dreadful wish uttered by Mrs. Robie at her departure still rankled
in the minds of the people and they determined to give the Robies a significant
reception. So great was the excitement that it was feared by many of the
influential citizens that the unfortunate exiles might be injured and perhaps
lose their lives at the hands of the infuriated populace. During the night,
however, a party of gentlemen went on board of the schooner and removed
them to a place of safety. They were landed in a distant part of the town
and secreted for several days in a house belonging to one of the gentlemen.
In the meantime urgent appeals were made to the magnaminity of the turbulent
populace, and the excitement subsided.
Mr.
Robie went into business again in a limited extent, and died at Salem about
1812, well esteemed and respected. The large brick mansion house of Thomas
Robie is situated on Washington street, near the head of Darling street,
Marblehead.
SAMUEL
BRADSTREET ROBIE,
son of the above, of Halifax, was appointed solicitor-general of Nova Scotia
in 1815, speaker of the house of of assembly in 1817, 1819-20, member of
the council in 1824, and master of the rolls in 1825, and died at that
city January, 1858, in his eighty-eighth year.
SOLICITOR
GENERAL
Edmund
Quincy, the first of the name in New England, landed at Boston on the 4th
of September, 1633. He came from Achurch in Northamptonshire, where he
owned some landed estate. That he was a man of substance may be inferred
from his bringing six servants with him, and that he was a man of weight
among the founders of the new commonwealth appears from his election as
a representative of the town of Boston in the first General Court ever
held in Massachusetts Bay. He was also the first named on the committee
appointed by the town to assess and raise the sum necessary to extinguish
the title of Mr. Blackstone to the peninsula on which the city stands.
He bought of Chickatabut, Sachem of the Massachusetts tribe of Indians,
a tract of land at Mount Wollaston, confirmed to him by the Town of Boston,
1636, a portion of which is yet in the family.
Edmund
Quincy died the year after making this purchase, in 1637, at the age of
33. He left a son Edmund and a daughter Judith. The son lived, in the main,
a private life on the estate in Braintree. He was a magistrate and a representative
of his town in the General Court, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Suffolk
Regiment.
Point
Judith was named after his daughter. She married John Hull, who, when Massachusetts
Bay assumed the prerogative of coining money, was her mint-master, and
made a large fortune in the office, before Charles II put a stop to that
infringement of the charter. There is a tradition that, when he married
his daughter to Samuel Sewall, afterwards Chief Justice, he gave her for
her dowry, her weight in pine-tree shillings. From this marriage has sprung
the eminent family of the Sewalls, which has given three Chief Justices
to Massachusetts[6]
and one to Canada[7],
and has been distinguished in every generation by the talents and virtues
of its members.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Quincy, who was a child when brought to New England, died in 1698, aged
seventy years, having had two sons, Daniel and Edmund.
Daniel
died during his father’s lifetime, leaving an only son John, who graduated
at Cambridge in 1708,and
was a prominent public man in the Colony for nearly half a century. He
was a Councillor, and for many years Speaker of the Lower House.
He
died in 1767, at the time of the birth of his great-grandson, John Quincy
Adams, who therefore received the name which he has made illustrious. Edmund,
the second son, graduated in 1699,and
was also in the public service almost all his life, as a magistrate, a
Councillor, and one of the Justices of the Supreme Court. He was also colonel
of the Suffolk Regiment, at that time a very important command, since the
coun ty of Suffolk then, and long after, included what is now County of
Nor folk, as well as the town of Boston. In 1737,the
General Court selected him as their agent to lay the claims of the Colony
before the home government, in the matter of the disputed boundary between
Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire.
He
died, however, very soon after his arrival in London, February 23,
1737, of the smallpox, which he had taken by inoculation.
He was buried in Bunhill Fields, where a monument was erected to him by
the General Court, which also made a grant of land of a thousand acres
in the town of Lennox to his family, in further recognition of his public
services.
Judge
Edmund Quincy had two sons, Edmund and Josiah.
The
first named, who graduated at Cambridge in 1722,lived
a private life at Braintree and in Boston.
One
of his daughters married John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration
of Independence, and afterwards Governor of Massachusetts. Josiah was born
in 1709, and
took his first degree in 1728. He accompanied his father
to London in 1737,and
afterwards visited England and the Continent more than once.
For
some years he was engaged in commerce and ship-building in Boston, and
when about forty years of age he retired from business and removed to Braintree,
where he lived for thirty years the life of a country gentleman, occupying
himself with the duties of a county magistrate, and amusing himself with
field sports. Game of all sorts abounded, in those days in the woods and
along the shore, and marvellous stories have come down, by tradition, of
his feats with gun and rod. He was Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment, as
his father had been before him; he was also Commissioner to Pennsylvania
during the old French war to ask the help of that Colony in an attack which
Massachusetts Bay had planned upon Crown Point. He succeeded in his mission
by the help of Doctor Franklin.
Colonel
Josiah Quincy, by his first marriage, had three sons, Edmund, Samuel, Josiah,
and one daughter, Hannah. His first wife was Hannah Sturgis, daughter of
Johns Sturgis, one of his Majesty’s Council, of Yarmouth. His eldest son,
Edmund, graduated in 1752,after
which he became a merchant in Boston. He was in England in 1760 for
the purpose of establishing mercantile correspondences. He died at sea
in 1768, on his return from a voyage for his health to the West Indies.
The
youngest son of Colonel Josiah Quincy bore his name, and was therefore
known to his contemporaries, and takes his place in history, as Josiah
Quincy, Junior, he having died before his father, he was born February 23,1744,
and graduated at Harvard College, 1763. He studied law with Oxenbridge
Thacher, one of the principal lawyers of that day, and succeeded to his
practice at his death, which took place about the time he himself was called
to the bar. He took a high rank at once in his profession, although his
attention to its demands was continually interrupted by the stormy agitation
in men’s minds and passions, which preceded and announced the Revolution,
and which he actively promoted by his writings and public speeches. On
the 5th of March, the day of the so called “Boston Massacre”
he was selected, together with John Adams, by Captain Preston, who was
accused of having given the word of command to the soldiers that fired
on the mob, to conduct his defence and that of his men, they having been
committed for trial for murder. At tha moment of fierce excitement, it
demanded personal and moral courage to perform this duty. His own father
wrote him a letter of stern an strong remonstrance against his undertaking
the defence of “those criminals charged with the murder of their fellow
citizens,” exclaiming, with, passionate emphasis “Good God Is it possible?
I wilt not believe it!”
Mr.
Quincy in his reply, reminded his father of the obligations his professional
oath laid him under, to give legal counsel and assistance to those accused
of a crime, but not proved to be guilty of it; adding: “I dare affirm that
you and this whole people will one day rejoice that I be came an advocate
for the aforesaid criminals, charged with the mur der of our fellow citizens.
To inquire my duty and to do it, is my
aim.” He did his duty and his prophecy soon came to pass.
There
is no more honorable passage in the history of New Engand than the one
which records the trial and acquittal of Captain Preston and his men, in
the midst of the passionate excitements of that time, by a jury of the
town maddened to a rage but a few months before by the blood of her citizens
shed in her streets.
In 1774he
went to England, partly for his health, which had suffered much from his
intense
professional and political activities, and also as a confidential agent
of the Revolutionary party to consult and advise with the friends of America
there. His presence in London coming as he did at a most critical moment
excited the notice of the ministerial party, as well as of the opposition.
The Earl of Hillsborough denounced him, together with Dr. Franklin, in
the House of Lords, “as men walking the streets of London who ought to
be in Newgate or Tyburn.” The precise results of his communications with
the English Whigs can never be known. They were important enough, however,
to make his English friends urgent for his immediate return to America,
because he could give information which could not safely be committed to
writing. His health had failed seriously during the latter months of his
residence in England, and his physicians strongly advised against his taking
a winter voyage.
His
sense of public duty, however, overbore all personal considera tions, and
he set sail on the 16th of March, 1775, and died off Gloucester,
Massachusetts, on the 20th
of April.
The
citizens of Gloucester buried him with all honor in their graveyard; after
the siege of Boston, he was removed and placed in a vault in the burying
ground in Braintree. Josiah Quincy was barely thirty-one years of age when
he thus died.
His
father, Colonel Quincy lived on at Braintree during the whole of the war.
He died on March 3rd, 1784.
His
passion for field sports remained in full force till the end, for his death
was occasioned by exposure to the winter’s cold, sitting upon a cake of
ice, watching for wild ducks, when he was in his seventy-fifth year.
SAMUEL
QUINCY,the
subject of this memoir, was the second son of Colonel Josiah Quincy, and
the brother of Josiah, Junior, and Edmund. He was born in that part of
Braintree now Quincy. April 23,
1735. He graduated at Harvard College in 1754, and studied
law with Benjamin Pratt.
Endowed
with fine talents, Mr. Quincy became eminent in the profession of the law,
and succeeded Jonathan Sewall as Solicitor-General of Massachusetts. He
was the intimate friend of many of the most distinguished men of that period,
among whom was John Adams. They were admitted to the bar on the same day,
Nov. 6, 1758.
As
Solicitor for the Crown, he was engaged with Robert Treat Paine in the
memorable trial of Capt. Preston, and the soldiers in 1770; his brother
was opposed to him on that occasion, and both reversed their party sympathies
in their professional position. It was plain to all sagacious observers
of the signs of the times, that the storm of civil war was gathering fast;
and it was sure first to burst over Boston. It was a time of stern agitation,
and profound anxieties. In their emotion Mr. Quincy and his wife shared
deeply, and passionately. The shadows of public and private calamity were
already beginning to steal over that once happy home. The evils of the
present and the uncertainties of the future bore heavily on their prosperity.
The fierce passions which were soon to break out into revolutionary violence
and mob rule, had already begun to separate families, to divide friends,
and to break up society. Samuel Quincy was a Loyalist and remained true
to his oath of office, wherein he swore to support the government. His
father and brother were revolutionists; as previously stated his brother
died on shipboard off Gloucester, seven days after the hostilities had
commenced at Lexington, and when his father saw from his house on Quincy
Bay, the fleet drop down the harbor, after the evacuation of Boston on
March 17, I776, it must have been with feelings of sorrow that the stout
hearted old man saw the vessels bear away his only surviving son, never
to return again[8].
Such partings were common griefs then, as ever in civil wars, the bitterest
perhaps that wait upon that cruelest of calamities.
Samuel
Quincy was an addressor of Governor Hutchinson, and a staunch Loyalist.
His wife, the sister of Henry Hill, Esq., of Boston, was not pleased with
her husband’s course in the politics of the times, and he became a Loyalist
against her advice, and when he left Boston, a refugee, she preferred to
remain with her brother, and never met her husband again. The following
letter written to his brother by Mr. Quincy, during the siege of Boston,
will explain his position at that time.
Samuel
Quincy was appointed comptroller of the customs in Antigua in 1779.His
wife died in 1782, and he married again while in Antigua to Mrs. M.A. Chadwell,
widow of {Hon.} Abraham Chadwell.In
1789, Mr. Quincy embarked for England, accompanied by his wife. The restoration
of his health was the object of the voyage, but the effort was unsuccessful;
he died at sea, within sight of the English coast. His remains were carried
to England, and interred on Bristol hill. His widow immediately reem barked
for the West Indies, but her voyage was tempestuous. Grief for the loss
of her husband, to whom she was strongly attached, and suffering from the
storm her vessel encountered, terminated her life on her homeward passage.
It
was a singular coincidence that two of Mr. Quincy’s brothers died at sea,
as he did on shipboard, Edmund, the eldest and Josiah, the youngest brother.
Samuel
Quincy had two sons: Samuel, a graduate of Harvard College in 1782, who
was an attorney-at-law in Lenox, Mass., where he died in January, 1816,
leaving a son Samuel. His second son, Josiah, became an eminent counselor-at-law
of Romney, N. H., and President of the Senate of that State.
Mr.
Samuel Quincy was proscribed and banished and his property confiscated.
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Born at Braintree, Massachusetts April 23, 1735.Died
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