. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. DOROTHY QUIXCY HANCOCK. From the painting by CopleyPage 219. OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 219 called Braintvee, — and his grandfather wasthe first Quincy to own the fine old roof-treewhich we now know as the Dorothy Q. attend the funeral of Colonel Quincy, asthe first Edmund was always called. JudgeSewall drove out from Boston in 1697-1698,picking up Madame Dudley on the way, who** seemd to be glad of the Invitation and weremutually refreshed by our Company. Scarcelytwo years later Judge Sewall was oblig
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. DOROTHY QUIXCY HANCOCK. From the painting by CopleyPage 219. OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 219 called Braintvee, — and his grandfather wasthe first Quincy to own the fine old roof-treewhich we now know as the Dorothy Q. attend the funeral of Colonel Quincy, asthe first Edmund was always called. JudgeSewall drove out from Boston in 1697-1698,picking up Madame Dudley on the way, who** seemd to be glad of the Invitation and weremutually refreshed by our Company. Scarcelytwo years later Judge Sewall was obliged to goto Braintree for another funeral, this time thatof the widow. He notes in his diary: * CousinEdmund Quinsey invited us; for I lodged thereall night. This * cousin Edmund it was who,by marriage with the lovely Dorothy Flynt, soonbrought into the annals of Braintree the first Dorothy Q. When this maiden went out from her homeat Dorchester — she was the daughter of Flynt of that place — to assume the careof a household, she was a girl of only seventeen,w^liile her husband was scarcely three yearsolder. But the young
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