![]() ![]() The area was first incorporated as part of Dorchester in 1630 and was briefly annexed by Boston in 1634. 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. He was sent back to England, only to return and be arrested by Puritans the next year. In 1627, Morton was arrested by Standish for violating the code of conduct in a way harmful to the colony. ![]() 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. Upon the departure of Wollaston, Thomas Morton took over leadership of the post, and the settlement proceeded to gain a reputation for debauchery with Indian women and drunkenness. 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, a President of the Continental Congress and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, as well as being 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. ![]()
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