Daniel Quincy

Daniel Quincy (1651-1690)
Born1651
Died1690 (aged 38–39)
Resting placeGranary Burial Ground Hull Tomb
Occupation(s)Goldsmith, Merchant
SpouseAnna Shephard
ChildrenAnn Quincy Holman (1685-1717)
John Quincy
Parent(s)Edmund Quincy II,
Joanna Hoar Quincy
RelativesQuincy political family

Daniel Quincy (1651 – 1690), trained as a silversmith under John Hull, his uncle by marriage (Judith Quincy Hull). Daniel lived with John and Judith Hull from the age of seven and was trained in the Hull and Sanderson mint on Summer Street (Boston) as a goldsmith producing the pine tree shilling. Hull treated young Daniel as his own son. Daniel and Ann Quincy were married by John Hull Esq.

"The brother of Mrs. Judith Hull, Col. Edmund Quincy II, lived, and was a member of the church, at Braintree. His first wife was Joanna Hoar, sister of Leonard Hoar, the person who came over from England in 1672, preached some time as assistant to Thomas Thacher (minister) at the Old South Church and was then elected President of Harvard College. He had been educated at that College, where his name appears among the graduates of 1650. In that same year, his sister, Mrs. Joanna Quinsey, became the mother of Daniel Quinsey, who was afterwards placed as an apprentice with his uncle, John Hull, who was a gold smith, and some years afterwards Treasurer of the Province, and the contractor for the coinage of the celebrated pine-tree shillings. In 1650, Mrs. Joanna Quinsey died ; and her husband afterwards married Elizabeth Gookin."[1]

He was the grandfather of Elizabeth Quincy Smith and great grandfather of Abigail Smith Adams; first Second Lady of the United States and second First Lady of the United States, who was born on December 17, 1721, in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Colonel John Quincy (July 21, 1689 – July 13, 1767), an American soldier, politician and member of the Quincy political family.[2] [3] Daniel Quincy is in Hull's Tomb.

  1. ^ ["The brother of Mrs. Judith Hull, Col. Edmund Quincy II, lived, and was a member of the church, at Braintree. His first wife was Joanna Hoar, sister of Leonard Hoar, the person who came over from England in 1672, preached some time as assistant to Thomas Thacher (minister) at the Old South Church and was then elected President of Harvard College. He had been educated at that College, where his name appears among the graduates of 1650. In that same year, his sister, Mrs. Joanna Quinsey, became the mother of Daniel Quinsey, who was afterwards placed as an apprentice with his uncle, John Hull, who was a gold smith, and some years afterwards Treasurer of the Province, and the contractor for the coinage of the celebrated pine-tree shillings. In 1650, Mrs. Joanna Quinsey died ; and her husband afterwards married Elizabeth Gookin."]
  2. ^ "The diaries of John Hull, mint-master and treasurer of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, from the original manuscript in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, with a memoir of the author. : Hull, John. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  3. ^ An Historical Catalogue of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston – Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), George Frederick Bigelow