A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
showing three generations of those who came before May 1692
on the basis of John Farmer`s Register
Volume 1 originally published Boston 1860-62
Second revision published by James Savage 1965
Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company 1965
History of Congress Catalog Card no. 65-185451
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PREFACE
John Farmer`s original continuous text has been found by many genealogists to be quite cumbersome, not easy to follow with his constant use of abbreviations, and in places almost impossible to interpret. Over the past 18 months I have painstakingly sifted through Farmer`s condensed text, editing, rearranging, and reformating in the hopes of aiding researchers in their quest for family histories.
I cannot guarantee that my interpretations are correct, so like any professional genealogist using resource materials, I would suggest that other sources be used in your search for exactness.
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WILLIAM QUARLES, Ipswich
1678, probably came in from Salisbury, or some other town, where in 1665 he was
18 years old, but no more is known of him, except that his inventory is found
of 14 March 1690.
WILLIAM QUARLES,
Ipswich, perhaps son of the preceding, but of who I learn nothing except by his
will of estate among probate records after December 10 April 1719, when widow
Mary, eldest son William, and other sons Robert and Francis, and other
relatives are mentioned. It is possible
from adopting his name for one of his sons that he was of kin to Quarles, the
puritan poet. Yet in Boston Joanna was
married by Governor Bellingham to Richard Smith of Lancaster, 2 August 1654;
though no occurrence of the name can be found for more than 80 years after the
settling of the town, either in births, or deaths, or in the public registrar
of deeds or of wills.
BENJAMIN QUELCH, Boston,
by wife Elizabeth, had Nathaniel, born 9 December 1692; and Benjamin, 25 August
1694; probably removed soon, as he is not in the list of inhabitants 1695.
ROBERT QUELVES, is the impossible name
written by the Secretary in our Colony records for October 1645 (the bungler
was Increase Nowell), among the petitioners for a new plantation that our
rulers would have gained from Rhode Island, or Providence jurisdiction. No doubt it was Twelves, of Braintree, the
freeman of 1663, and in later volumes of the record, restitution was made in
place of the false letters.
NATHANIEL QUICK, New
Hampshire, died 1677. Kelly.
WILLIAM QUICK,
Charlestown 1636, a mariner, as seems if from Trumbull, Colony record I. 6,
removed to Newport, where he was administered an inhabitant 27 December 1638. Probably his religious opinion or those of his
friends led to that, and he sold house and land June 1644. Ann Quick of Charlestown, perhaps his mother
sold her house and land in April 1640.
JOSEPH QUIDDINGTON, one of the soldiers
killed by the Indians 19 October 1675, at Hatfield, but of what town he had
been inhabitant is unknown.
ABRAHAM QUIDDINGTON, Boston,
perhaps son of the preceding, by wife Sarah, had Elizabeth, baptized 31
December 1682, but her birth is not found in the records of the town, so that I
infer, he came in from the neighborhood. He had also Ann, baptized 1 February 1685, and
was of the 3rd or Old South Church but no more is heard of him. His daughter Ann married 14 October 1703,
Thomas Holland.
JOSEPH QUILTER, Ipswich 1679, perhaps son
of Mark Quilter the first, is mentioned in the valuable pamphlet of 1689,
Revolution in New England justified, page 38.
MARK QUILTER, Ipswich 1637, came
probably with Reverend Nathaniel Rogers the year before, bringing some
children, and died perhaps, 1654, his will being of 7 February in that year. His children were Joseph, Mark, Mary,
Rebecca, and Sarah; the two first may have been born in England. His daughter Mary is named in the will of
Reverend N. Rogers, 3 July 1655, as his maid servant.
MARK QUILTER, Ipswich, son of the
preceding, married Frances Swan, daughter of Richard Swan of Rowley. He was
born about 1630, and his will is of 4 November 1678.
JOHN QUIMBY, or JOHN QUINBY, Stratford 1654, had one
child born there, but after some years removed and was one of the patentees of
West Chester in 1664, where the family has continued.
ROBERT QUIMBY, or ROBERT QUINBY,
Salisbury 1663, had Lydia, born 22 January 1658; William, 11 June 1660; John, 7
September 1665; and Thomas, 8 February 1668; and probably died 1677. Lydia married 10 April 1674, William
Holdridge.
WILLIAM QUIMBY, or WILLIAM QUINBY,
Amesbury, perhaps brother, perhaps son of the preceding, took oath of fidelity
20 December 1677.
DANIEL QUINCY, Boston, goldsmith, eldest
son of Edmund Quincy the second, Artillery Company 1675, married 9 November 1682,
Ann Shepard or Hannah Shepard, daughter of Reverend Thomas Shepard of
Charlestown, had Ann, born 1 June 1685; and John Quincy, 21 July 1689, Harvard
College 1708; and died 10 August of the year following, his will of 4 April 1690,
being probated 18 September after. His
widow married 7 January 1701, Reverend Moses Fiske as his second wife, and died
24 July 1708. His daughter Ann married
John HoIman, who may have been the graduate of Harvard College 1700; and his
only son was speaker of the house of Representatives 1729-39, many years of his
majesty's council, and died 13 July 1767.
EDMUND QUINCY, Boston, arrived 4
September 1633 with John Cotton; making it probable that he came from the same
County in Lincoln, though really he was of Wigsthorpe, County Northampton, son
of Edmund Quincy, and baptized 30 May 1602, and was, with wife Judith married
14 July 1623, administered of the church in November 1633, within four months
five of his sons joined it; freeman 4 March 1634, and Representative at the
first General Court of Massachusetts 14 May, in that year recorded grant of
land in Braintree, 1635, still enjoyed by his descendants, and died soon after
in his 33rd year. His widow married
Moses Paine, who died 1643, and in few years she married Robert Hull, and died
29 November 1654, as in his Diary is told by John Hull, the mintmaster, who
married 11 May 1647 his daughter Judith, born in England 3 September 1626.
EDMUND QUINCY, Braintree, only son of
the preceding, born in England about 1628, baptized 15 March of that year,
married 26 July 1648, Joanna Hoar, daughter of widow Joanna Hoar, and sister of
President Hoar, had Mary, born 4 March 1650; Daniel, 7 February 1651, but
through misreading of the numerals in Advertisement to Hull's American Diary,
page117, by the scrupulous Editor of Archaeology American repeats page 275, is
made five months too early, for the record Genealogical Registrar XI. 333,
shows the truth to be not 12 (7) 1650, but 7 (12) 1650; John, 5 April 1652,
died young; Joanna, 16 April 1654; Judith, 25 June 1655; Elizabeth, 28
September 1656; Edmund, 9 July 1657, died at 4 months; Ruth, 29 October 1658; Ann, who died 3 September 1676, after 3 days
illness, aged 13, as her gravestone tells; and Experience. His wife died 16 May 1680 (misprinted 1650 in
letter of J.Q. Adams, Arch. Amer. III. 276), in her 55th year, and he married
in December following Elizabeth Gookin, daughter of Honorable Daniel Gookin,
widow of John Eliot junior, who died 30 November 1700, by her had Edmund Quincy,
again, born 21 October 1681, Harvard College 1699; and Mary, again, about 1684.
He was freeman 1665, Major and
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Suffolk regiment, Representative 1670, 3, 5, 9, last
in the trying times, May 1692, and died 7 January 1698, in his 70th year. His will of 11 December preceding was probated
31 March following. Of his daughters the
first Mary married Ephraima Savage, had four children, and died 7 October 1676;
Joanna married David Hobart of Hingham, bore him five children, and died 18 May
1695; Judith married Reverend John Rayner junior of Dover, who died soon after
21 December 1676, and she died 8 March 1679; Elizabeth married 1681, Reverend
Daniel Gookin of Sherborne; Ruth married 19 October 1686, John Hunt of
Weymouth; Experience married William Savil, survived him, and died late in
1706, or early in 1707, when administration was given to her brother Edmund;
and the second Mary married Reverend Daniel Baker of Sherborne, and died 29
March 1716 in 32d year. The genealogy in
Genealogical Registrar XI. is rather imperfect.
EDMUND QUINCY, Braintree, youngest son
of the preceding, and only one who outlived the father, married Dorothy Flynt,
daughter of Reverend Josiah Flynt of Dorchester, was Colonel of the regiment,
Representative 1713 and 14, of the council 1715, and 1718, one of the Justices
of the Supreme Court of the Province. In
the cause of the Province he was sent to the Court of the Sovereign in December
1737, and died there of smallpox 23 February after. The inscription on his monument erected by our
General Court in Bunhill Fields (where the rest the ashes of John Milton and
John Bunyan) may be read in Eliot's Biographical Dictionary. His will made just before embarking 10
December 1737, probated 18 April next, names only children Edmund Quincy, born
1703, Harvard College 1722, Josiah Quincy, 1709, Harvard College 1728,
Elizabeth, and Dorothy, and with tender reference to late decease (in August preceding)
of his wife Dorothy. This Josiah was a
merchant of eminence and distinguished as a patriot in the Revolution, father
of that fervid orator, Josiah Quincy, born 23 February 1744, Harvard College
1763, who expended his life for the cause of his country, dying on shipboard,
in sight of home, as he returned from England after hostilities had begun only
seven days. Fourteen descendants of the
first Edmund, in male line, are of the graduates at Harvard, of which the only
son of the eloquent patriot was some years President, and to whose honor he
devoted a History that for its truthfulness may put to shame most of the
narratives of all institutions under difficult combinations.
ARTHUR QUING, or ARTHUR QUIN, Boston 1677.
THOMAS QUOITMORE, a perverse spelling, in
some records of Coytmore.