Col. Edmund Quincy I (1602-1636)

He was born in England at Wigsthorpe in Northamptonshire. In 1623, he married Judith Pares and they lived at Thorpe Achurch on a small estate inherited from his father. They were the parents of two children (listed) and it appears that he became a Puritan after the birth of his son in 1628. He first came out to Massachusetts that year but emigrated there with his family and six servants in 1633 along with the Rev. John Cotton. In 1635, he was elected to represent the town of Boston at the first Massachusetts General Court held in the new colony. In the same same year, he and William Coddington purchased 1,000-acres from the local Indians in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts, and at about the same time, shortly before his death, he built a one story house upon which his son would build the Dorothy Q. Homestead that dates back to 1686.