Morton renamed the settlement Ma-re-Mount ("Hill by the Sea") and later wrote that the conservative separatists of Plymouth Colony to the south were "threatening to make it a woefull mount and not a merry mount", in reference to the fact that they disapproved of his libertine practices. Morton's history of conflict with the Plymouth settlement and his free-thinking ideals antagonized the Plymouth settlement, who maligned the colony and accused it of debauchery with Indian women and drunkenness. Upon the departure of Wollaston, Thomas Morton took over leadership of the post. The Wollaston neighborhood in Quincy still retains Captain Wollaston's name. ) This settlement was named Mount Wollaston in honor of the leader, who left the area soon after 1625, bound for Virginia. (The Indians used the name Passonagessit ("Little Neck of Land") for the area. The settlers found the area suitable for farming, as Chickatawbut and his group had cleared much of the land of trees. įour years later, a party led by Captain Richard Wollaston established a post on a low hill near the south shore of Quincy Bay east of present-day Black's Creek. It was visited in 1621 by Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish and Squanto, a native guide. Massachusett sachem Chickatawbut had his seat on a hill called Moswetuset Hummock prior to the settlement of the area by English colonists, situated east of the mouth of the Neponset River near what is now called Squantum. The road that eventually became the Old Coast Road from Boston to Plymouth, going through Quincy and Braintree, started out as a native american trail. The central part of this sketch was adopted as the seal of Quincy. History Pre-Colonial Period to the Revolution View of Mount Wollaston as it appeared in 1840, virtually unchanged from the time of initial English settlement in 1625. In the 20th century, both Howard Johnson's and Dunkin' Donuts were founded in the city. Shipbuilding at the Fore River Shipyard was another key part of the city's economy. Quincy became a city in 1888.įor more than a century, Quincy was home to a thriving granite industry the city was also the site of the Granite Railway, the United States' first commercial railroad.
In 1792, Quincy was split off from Braintree the new town was named after Colonel John Quincy, maternal grandfather of Abigail Adams and after whom John Quincy Adams was also named. presidents- John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams-as well as John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first and third governor of Massachusetts.įirst settled in 1625, Quincy was briefly part of Dorchester before becoming the north precinct of Braintree in 1640. Known as the "City of Presidents", Quincy is the birthplace of two U.S. Its population in 2020 was 101,636, making it the seventh-largest city in the state. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Quincy ( / ˈ k w ɪ n z i/ KWIN-zee) is a coastal U.S.
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