Quincy family letters, 1786-1933

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Quincy family letters, 1786-1933

Correspondence of Quincy family members includes a letter written by banished loyalist and comptroller of customs in Antigua Samuel Quincy to his son and Boston, Mass. lawyer Samuel Quincy, Jr. regarding law books the elder sent his son, his memory of New England salt fish, and his affairs in Antigua; Mary Hatch to Josiah Quincy regarding family news and happenings around the home; and Deborah Hewes Quincy to Samuel Hatch Quincy, a student at Brown University in Providence, RI, regarding the death of Samuel's mother Mary, reflections on life, and family news.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6928329

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Quincy, Samuel, 1764-1816

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Quincy, Samuel, 1735-1789

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Hatch, Mary

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Quincy family.

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Tuttle, Julius Herbert, 1857-

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Quincy, Mary Grace Weld, 1794-1844.

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Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

Quincy, Samuel, Hatch, 1827-1903.

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Quincy, Deborah Hewes, 1789-1872.

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