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Col. Josiah Quincy I
Born1 April 1710 (1710-04)
Braintree, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died3 March 1784 (1784-03-04) (aged 73)
Braintree, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationHarvard University
Occupations
  • Merchant
  • planter
  • soldier
  • politician
TitleColonel[1]
Spouses
  • Hanna Sturgis
    (m. 1733; died 1755)
  • Elizabeth Waldron
    (died)
  • Ann Marsh
Children7, including Josiah Quincy II
Parent
  • Edmund Quincy III (father)
Family= Quincy political family
Colonel Josiah Quincy portrait copy
Quincy House, Quincy Massachusetts

Col. Josiah Quincy I (1710–1784) was an American merchant, planter, soldier, and politician. He was the son of Col. Edmund Quincy III and Dorothy Flynt Quincy. He was named after his grandfather, Rev. Josiah Flynt. After graduating from Harvard in 1728, he returned to Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1735 he moved to Boston and engaged in commerce and shipbuilding. He returned to Braintree in 1748. Josiah was an American Patriot and supporter. He wrote to General George Washington about British troop movements and was a friend of Benjamin Franklin.[2]

  1. ^ Cutter, William Richard (1908). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Volume 2). Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 594. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  2. ^ Pages 1-17 The life of Josiah Quincy, by Edmund Quincy, Little, Brown and Company Boston 1874 6th Edition

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