Quincy, Josiah
Quincy, Josiah (1744–75),member of a prominent Boston family, graduated from Harvard (B.A., 1759; M.A., 1763), practiced law, and became an ardent supporter of the patriots. Although he wrote anonymous articles against Parliament, he joined John Adams in defending in court the British soldiers whose attack had resulted in the Boston Massacre. After a trip to Charleston in a vain attempt to recover from tuberculosis, he wrote an important patriot tract, Observations on …the Boston Port-Bill (1774), and in the same year was sent to England to plead the cause of the colonies, but died on the way home. What he accomplished in England has never been learned.
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