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Edmund Quincy III (; 1681–1737) was an American merchant and judge. He was the son of Col. Edmund Quincy II (1627-1698) II and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 7 children. Four lived to adulthood, including Edmund Quincy IV and Dorothy Quincy, who was the topic of a famous poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a magistrate, Supreme Court judge from 1718 until his death, and a colonel in the
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Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a magistrate, Supreme Court judge from 1718 until his death, and a colonel in the Massachusetts militia
This is a list of militia units of the Colony and later Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
*Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (1638)
* Cogswell's Regiment of Militia (April 19, 1775)
*Woodbridge's Regiment of Militia (April 20 ...
. In 1737, he was appointed to a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts
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and New Hampshire
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."Genealogical and Personal Memoirs," Cutter, p. 593 However, he contracted smallpox
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and died before his return to Massachusetts. The colony built a monument at his grave in Brunhill Fields Burial Ground in London and gave in Lenox to his family as a tribute for all of his efforts.
See also
Quincy political familyReferences
1681 births People of colonial Massachusetts People from Quincy, Massachusetts 1737 deaths Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature Harvard University alumni {{Massachusetts-stub