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Quincy (pronounced /'kw?nzi/) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream".[2] As a major part of Metropolitan Boston, Quincy is a member of Boston's Inner Core Committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC).[3] Its estimated population in 2009 was 91,073, making it the 8th largest city in the state.[1]
Quincy is named for Colonel John Quincy, maternal grandfather of Abigail Adams and after whom John Quincy Adams was also named.[4] The name of the city is correctly pronounced KWIN-zee, following the family's pronunciation, though it is often mispronounced outside the region as KWIN-see.[5] Quincy is the birthplace of former U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, as well as statesman John Hancock, fourth and longest serving President of the Continental Congress.
History
View of Mount Wollaston as it appeared in 1840, virtually unchanged
from the time of initial English settlement in 1625. The central part
of this sketch was adopted as the seal of Quincy.
Prior to the settlement of the area by English colonists, a hill east of the mouth of the Neponset River near what is now called Squantum was the seat of the ruling Massachusett sachem, or native American leader, Chickatawbut.[6] Moswetuset Hummock was visited by Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish and Squanto, a native guide, in 1621.[7] Four years later, a party lead by Captain Wollaston established a post on a low hill near the south shore of Quincy Bay
east of present-day Black's Creek. The settlers found the area suitable
for farming, as Chickatawbut and his group, who used the name
Passonagessit (“Little Neck of Land”) for the area,[8]
had cleared much of the land of trees. This settlement was named Mount
Wollaston in honor of the leader, who soon after 1625 left the area
bound for Virginia.[9] The Wollaston neighborhood in Quincy still retains Captain Wollaston's name.
Upon the departure of Wollaston, Thomas Morton took over leadership of the post and the settlement proceeded to gain a reputation for debauchery with native women and drunkenness.[9] Morton renamed the settlement Ma-re-Mount ("Hill by the Sea") and later wrote in reference to the conservative separatists of Plymouth Colony to the south who disapproved of his libertine practices that they were "threatening to make it a woefull mount and not a merry mount".[10]
In 1627 Morton was arrested by Standish for violating the code of
conduct in a way harmful to the colony and was sent back to England,
only to return and be arrested by Puritans the next year.[9] The area of Quincy now called Merrymount is located on the site of the original English settlement of 1625 and takes its name from the punning name given by Morton.[11]
( Source:" Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy,_Massachusetts)
First settled by a party including Captain Wollaston in 1625, Quincy was originally
part of the neighboring town of Braintree. Her famous early residents included presidents
John Adams and John Quincy Adams, as well as the legendary patriot John Hancock - known for
signing his name to the Declaration of Independence in extra-large script "so that fat King
George can read it without his glasses." In 1792, the north precinct of Braintree became the
town of Quincy, with residents opting to name the new town after Col. John Quincy,
grandfather of Abigail Adams.
Today, visitors to Quincy can tour the birthplaces of both John Adams
and John Quincy Adams as well as the Adams Mansion, the Summer White House for both presidents
and home to their descendants until the early 20 th century. Other historic sites include United
First Parish Church - where both Adams presidents and their wives are buried - historic Hancock
Cemetery and the Dorothy Quincy Homestead, the childhood home of John Hancock's wife, Dorothy Quincy.
Quincy's granite industry was famous the world over, with many of
America's most prominent statues and monuments sculpted from granite
quarried here. In fact, the first commercial railroad in America was
founded in Quincy in 1826 to transport Quincy granite to Charlestown
for the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument.
(Source:http://www.discoverquincy.com/americanDream.htm
Colonial History
