See also:

• JOSIAH (Heb. yo' shiyydhu, perhaps " Yah [weh] supports ")

JOSIAH See also:

• QUINCY
• JOSIAH QUINCY (1744–1775)

QUINCY (1744–1775)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American patriot, son of See also:

• JOSIAH (Heb. yo' shiyydhu, perhaps " Yah [weh] supports ")

Josiah See also:

• QUINCY
• QUINCY, JOSIAH (1744–1775)

Quincy (1709–1784), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston on the 23rd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1744 . He was a descendant of See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund Quincy, who emigrated to See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts in 1633, and received in 1636 a See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

grant of See also:

• LAND

land at See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

• WOLLASTON, WILLIAM (1659--1724)
• WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE (1766-1828)

Wollaston, or Merry Mount, after-wards a See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• BRAINTREE

Braintree and now Quincy . He graduated at Harvard in 1763, and studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law in the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of Oxenbridge Thacher (d . 1765), to whose large practice he succeeded . In 1767 Quincy contributed to the Boston See also:

• GAZETTE

Gazette two bold papers, signed "See also:

• HYPERION

Hyperion," declaiming against See also:

• BRITISH

British oppression; they were followed by a third in See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1768; and on the 12th of February 1770 he published in the Gazette a See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call to his countrymen to break off all social intercourse " with those whose See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce contaminates, whose luxuries See also:

• POISON

poison, whose avarice is insatiable, and whose unnatural oppressions are not to be See also:

• BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne." After the " Boston See also:

• MASSACRE

massacre " (5th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1770) he and See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• ADAMS
• ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
• ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
• ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
• ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
• ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
• ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
• ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
• ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
• ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
• ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
• ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)

Adams defended See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

• PRESTON
• PRESTON, JOHN (1587-1628)

Preston and the accused soldiers and secured their acquittal.' He used the signatures " See also:

• MENTOR

Mentor," " See also:

• CALLISTHENES (c. 360–328 B.C.)

Callisthenes," " See also:

• MARCHMONT, EARLS OF

Marchmont Needham," " See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• SEXBY, EDWARD (d. 1658)

Sexby," &c., in later letters to the Boston Gazette . He travelled for his See also:

• HEALTH

health in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South in 1773, and See also:

• LEFT

left in his See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal an interesting See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his travels and of society in South Carolina; this See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey was important in that it brought See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern patriots into closer relations with the popular leaders in Massachusetts . In May 1774 he published Observations on the See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

Parliament, commonly called " The Boston See also:

• PORT

Port See also:

• BILL

Bill," with Thoughts on See also:

• CIVIL

Civil Society and See also:

• STANDING

Standing Armies, in which he urged " patriots and heroes " to " See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a compact for opposition—a See also:

• BAND

band for vengeance." In September 1774 he left for See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, where he consulted with leading Whigs as to the See also:

• POLITICAL

political situation in See also:

• AMERICA

America; on the 16th of March 177 5 he started back, but he died on the 26th of See also:

• APRIL

April in sight of land . See the Memoir of the See also:

• LIFE

Life of Josiah Quincy, Jun., of Massachusetts (Boston, 1825; 2nd ed., 1874), by his son, which contains his more important papers . His son, JoSIAH QUINCY (1772-1864), American lawyer and author, was born in Boston on the 4th of February 1772 . He studied at See also:

• PHILLIPS
• PHILLIPS, ADELAIDE (1833-1882)
• PHILLIPS, EDWARD (163o-1696)
• PHILLIPS, JOHN (1800—1874)
• PHILLIPS, SAMUEL (1814—1854)
• PHILLIPS, STEPHEN (1868– )
• PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1770-1845)
• PHILLIPS, WENDELL (1811-1884)

Phillips See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, See also:

• ANDOVER

Andover, graduated at Harvard in 1790, studied law, and was admitted to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar in 1793, but was never a prominent See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate He became a See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the Federalist party in Massachusetts; was an unsuccessful See also:

• CANDIDATE

candidate for the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of Representatives in 'Soo; served in the Massachusetts See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate in 1804–5; and was a member in 1805–13 of the national House of Representatives, where he was one of the small Federalist minority . He attempted to secure the exemption of fishing vessels from the See also:

• EMBARGO (a Spanish word meaning " stoppage ")

Embargo Act, urged the strengthening of the American See also:

• NAVY

navy, and vigorously opposed the erection of See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans Territory (See also:

• LOUISIANA

Louisiana) into a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state in 1811, and stated as his " deliberate See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, that if this bill passes, the bonds of this See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union are virtually dissolved; that the States that compose it are See also:

• FREE

free from their moral obligations to maintain it; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty of some to prepare definitely for a separation,—amicably if they can, violently if they must." This is probably " the first assertion of the right of See also:

• SECESSION

secession on the See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor of See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress." Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was a member of the Massachusetts Senate until 182o; in 1821–22 he was a member and See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker of the state House of Representatives, from which he resigned to become See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge of the municipal See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of Boston . In 1823–28 he was See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor of Boston, and in his See also:

• TERM

term Faneuil See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market House was His eldest See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• SAMUEL

SAMUEL QUINCY (1735-1789), was at this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time See also:

• SOLICITOR

solicitor-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of Massachusetts, and opened this trial .

He remained loyal to the See also:

• CROWN

Crown, left Boston in 1776, and was See also:

• ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney for the Crown in See also:

• ANTIGUA

Antigua until his See also:

• DEATH

death . built, the See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire and See also:

• POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police departments were reorganized, and the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city's care of the poor was systematized . In 1829–1845 he was See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of Harvard See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, of which he had been an overseer since 1810, when the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board was reorganized; he has been called " the See also:

• GREAT

great organizer of the university ": he gave an elective (or voluntary ") See also:

• SYSTEM

system an elaborate trial; introduced a system of marking (on the See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale of 8) on which college See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank and honours, formerly rather carelessly assigned, were based; first used courts of law to punish students who destroyed or injured college See also:

• PROPERTY

property; and helped to reform the finances of the university . During his term Dane Hall (for law) was dedicated, See also:

• GORE
• GORE, CATHERINE GRACE FRANCES (1799-1861)
• GORE, CHARLES (1853– )

Gore Hall was built, and the Astronomical See also:

• OBSERVATORY

Observatory was equipped . His last years were spent principally on his See also:

• FARM

farm in Quincy, where he died on the 1st of See also:

• JULY

July 1864 . He wrote a Memoir of his See also:

• FATHER

father (1825); a See also:

• HISTORY

History of Harvard University (2 vols., 1840), marred by a tendency to belittle the clerical regime; The See also:

• JOURNALS

Journals of See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

Major Samuel See also:

• SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856– )
• SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (1818–1885)
• SHAW, LEMUEL (1781–1861)
• SHAW, RICHARD NORMAN (1831– )

Shaw (1847); The History of the Boston See also:

• ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum (1851); The Municipal History of the See also:

• TOWN

Town and City of Boston (1852); a Memoir of the Life of J . Q . Adams (1858); and Essays on the Soiling of See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

Cattle (1859), only one of his many See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical contributions to See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture . See Edmund Quincy, Life of Josiah Quincy (Boston, 1867) . JoSIAH QUINCY (1802-1882), son of the last-named, was mayor of Boston in 1845–1849, and author of Figures of the Past (1882); his brother EDMUND (1808–1877) was a prominent Abolitionist, and author of the See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of his father and of a See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, Wensley (1854); and his See also:

• SISTER

sister ELIZA SUSAN (1798–1884) was her father's secretary and the biographer of her See also:

• MOTHER

mother . Josiah Quincy (1802–1882) had two sons—JosIAH PHILLIPS (1829-1910), a lawyer, who wrote, besides some See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, The See also:

• PROTECTION

Protection of Majorities (1876) and See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

Double See also:

• TAXATION
• TAXATION (from " tax," derived, through the French, from Lat. taxare, to appraise, which again is connected with the same root as tangere, to touch)

Taxation in Massachusetts (1889); and SAMUEL See also:

• MILLER, HUGH (1802–1856)
• MILLER, JOAQUIN (CINCINNATUS HEINE) (1841- )
• MILLER, JOE (JosEPH or JosIAS( (1684-1738)
• MILLER, SAMUEL FREEMAN (1816-1890)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1782-1849)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1795-1861)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1796–1882)
• MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (18o1–188o)

MILLER (1833–1887), who practised law, wrote on legal subjects, served in the Union See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army during the Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, and was breveted brigadier-general of See also:

• VOLUNTEERS

volunteers in 1865 . JOSIAH QUINCY (b .

1859), a son of Josiah Phillips Quincy, was prominent in the Democratic party in Massachusetts, and was mayor of Boston in 1895–1899 .