John Hancock

The New Netherland Ancestors of

DOROTHY QUINCY,

the wife of JOHN HANCOCK



- for John Hancock

Continental Congress Delegate, Declaration of Independence Signer, Governor, High Ranking Military during the American Revolution [Senior Major General], United States County Namesake 




		 __Edmund Quincy13
		|
	    __Edmund Quincy5,13
	   |    |
	   |    |__Elizabeth Gookin13
	   |
       __Edmund Quincy1,9
      |    |
      |    |     __Josiah Flynt14
      |    |    |
      |    |__Dorothy Flynt5,13
      |         |
      |         |     __Thomas Willet14
      |         |    |
      |         |__Esther Willet14
      |              |
      |              |__Mary Brown14
      |
DOROTHY QUINCY
the wife of JOHN HANCOCK
      |
      |               __Evert Janszen Wendell6,8
      |              |
      |          __Johannes Wendell6,7,8
      |         |    |
      |         |    |     __Philippe Du Trieux6,8
      |         |    |    |
      |         |    |__Susanna Du Trieux6,8
      |         |         |
      |         |         |__Susanna du Chesne8
      |         |
      |     __Abraham Wendell1,8,9
      |    |    |
      |    |    |     __Abraham Staats7
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Elizabeth Staats7,8
      |    |         |
      |    |         |     __Jochem Wesselszen7
      |    |         |    |
      |    |         |__Tryntje Jochemse7
      |    |              |
      |    |              |__Geertruy Hieronimus7
      |    |
      |__Elizabeth Wendell1,9
	   |
	   |          __Jacob Theuniszen Dekay9,11
	   |         |
	   |     __Teunis Dekay2,9
	   |    |    |
	   |    |    |     __Theunis Thomaszen [Quick]9,10
	   |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |__Hillegonde Quick9,11
	   |    |         |
	   |    |         |__Belitje Jacobs9,10
	   |    |
	   |__Catharina Dekay1,8,9
		|
		|     __Johannes Pieterszen Van Brugh3,9
		|    |
		|__Helena Van Brugh2,9
		     |
		     |     __Roelof Jansen4
		     |    |
		     |__Tryntje Roelofs3,9
			  |
			  |     __(Jan or Johan) (__)4
			  |    |
			  |__Anneke Jans4
			       |
			       |__Tryntje Roelofs4,12



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Biography of JOHN HANCOCK

 
HANCOCK, John, a Delegate from Massachusetts; born in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., January 12, 1737; pursued classical studies; was graduated from Harvard College in 1754; a selectman of Boston several terms; member of the provincial legislature 1766-1772; president of the Provincial Congress in 1774; Member of the Continental Congress 1775-1778 and served as President of the Congress from May 24, 1775, to October 1777; first signer of the Declaration of Independence; served as senior major general of Massachusetts Militia during the Revolutionary War; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1780; Governor of Massachusetts 1780-1785; was again elected President of the Continental Congress on November 23, 1785, but resigned May 29, 1786, not having served on account of illness; again Governor of Massachusetts from 1787 until his death in Quincy, Mass., October 8, 1793; interment in Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Bogardus, William Brouwer.  Dear "Cousin:"  A Charted Genealogy of the
       Descendants of Anneke Jans Bogardus (1605-1663) to the 5th Generation
       - and of her sister Marritje Jans.  Wilmington:  Anneke Jans and
       Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, 1996.  Chart No. 5B.
   2.  Ibid., Chart No. 5A.
   3.  Ibid., Chart No. 5.
   4.  Ibid., Chart No. 1.
   5.  Ibid., p. 150.
   6.  Stanwood, James Rindge, "The Dutch Ancestry of the Late James Wendell, of
       Portsmouth, N.H.," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
       36 (1882):  242-255.
   7.  Pearson, Jonathan, Contributions for the Genealogies of the First
       Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800.  Albany:
       Joel Munsell, 1872.  150.
   8.  Randolph, Howard, S.R., "The House of Truax," The New York Genealogical
       and Biographical Record, 57 (1926):  208-219, 336-344; 58 (1927):  76-81,
       111-116, 267-272, 326-331; 59 (1928):  17-26, 182-190, 289-293, 386-395.
   9.  McCracken, George E., "The American Dekay Family," The American
       Genealogist, 33 (1957):  223-231; 34 (1958):  29-38.
  10.  Quick, Arthur Craig, A Genealogy of the Quick Family in America (1625-
       1942) 317 Years.  South Haven: A.C. Quick, 1942.  3-8.
  11.  Ibid., p. 12-14.
  12.  She is more commonly known as Tryntje Jonas.
  13.  Flint, Edward F., S.M., and Gwendolyn S. Flint, Flint Family History of
       The Adventuresome Seven, Volume II.  Baltimore:  Gateway Press, Inc.,
       1984.  578-582.
  14.  Ibid., p. 569-571.

A special thanks goes out to Robert Protzmann for alerting me to and supplying
me with this information.

 

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