Dorothy (Quincy) Jackson (1709-1762)

She was born at Quincy, Massachusetts. She is the aunt and namesake of the First Lady of Massachusetts, Mrs Dorothy (Quincy) Hancock. In 1738, at Boston, she married Edward Jackson and from 1755 she lived at the Dorothy Q. Homestead, so-named for her. She was survived by a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Mary, Mrs Oliver Wendell. She is the subject of the famous 19th century poem "Dorothy Q.," written by her grandson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who married her grand-daughter, Amelia, who spent several years of her childhood at Gore Place in Waltham, Massachusetts