Career
He is notable as the progenitor of the prestigious Quincy family. Born 1602 in Wigsthorpe, Northamptonshire,, Edmund"s family may been connected with the Earls of Winchester in the 13th century. The surname is Anglo-Norman.
He is known to have lived in Thorpe in Achurch, Northamptonshire on an estate inherited from his father.
Quincy came to Massachusetts for the first time in 1628, and emigrated to America along with the Reverend John Cotton on a ship called Griffin with his family and six servants, arriving in Boston Harbor 4 September 1633. The Quincys" names appear in the records of the First Church from the following year.
The following May, he was elected to represent the town of Boston at the first Massachusetts General Court held in Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1635, a thousand acres of land in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts was sold by the Massachusett Indians to Quincy and William Coddington.
The town of Boston confirmed the sale in 1636.
The property consisted of a broad strip of land along the sea, extending somewhat beyond the boundaries of the settlement established by Captain Wollaston and Thomas Morton in 1625. Around the time of the purchase, Quincy built a one-story home on this land which would eventually develop into the Dorothy Quincy House. He died shortly thereafter, in 1636 or 1637.