1From Richard Cranch to Elizabeth Quincy Guild, 23 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
Agreeably to your request I have been recollecting some particulars respecting the antient and honourable family of Quincy (from which you are descended) that I have met with in reading or that my long acquaintance with the family have brought to my knowledge. It appears from antient historians, particularly from Mathew Paris, who flourished in the thirteenth century, that Robert De Quincy...
2From John Adams to Elizabeth Quincy Guild, 25 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your curiosity to investigate the history of your connections Ancestors, and as Mr. Cranch has permited me to see what he has written, and I happen to possess some books that he has not; I take the liberty freedom to make a small addition— In the second Vol of Blackstone’s Law Tracts, are the great Charter, and the Charter of the Forest with other authentic instruments...