LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY OF MASSACHUSETTS
by Quincy, Edmund
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About This Item
Boston: Tickner and Fields, 1868. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo., xii, 560 pp., and engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound in green cloth with boards decorated in blind. Frontispiece and title page loose. A very good copy. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Quincy III (1772-1864) was a prominent Massachusetts politician and educator. He served as a congressman from the first Mass. district from 1805-1813, was Mayor of Boston, and President of Harvard University. His father was a patriot and was co-counsel with John Adams during the trial of Capt. Preston for the Boston Massacre. The first chapter is dedicated to the ancestry of the family. Quincy Market is named for Josiah Quincy III.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63
- Title
- LIFE OF JOSIAH QUINCY OF MASSACHUSETTS
- Author
- Quincy, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Tickner and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- New england, history, Massachusetts, Colonial History, War for independence, biography
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