Dorothy Quincy

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Dorothy Quincy Hancock Scott
Born May 10, 1747
Boston, Massachusetts
Died February 3, 1830
Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation 1st and 3rd First Lady of Massachusetts
Successor , Elizabeth Adams
Spouse John Hancock (1737-1793), Capt. James Scott
Children Lydia Hancock, John George Washington Hancock
Parents Judge Edmond Quincy, Elizabeth Wendell

Dorothy Quincy Hancock Scott was married to John Hancock, the first (and third) Governor of Massachusetts and signer of the Declaration of Independence. They had two children together, neither of whom lived to see their teenage years: Lydia Hancock, who died at about ten months and John George Washington Hancock, who died at thirteen. She was the daughter of Judge Edmond Quincy.

Dorothy witnessed Battle of Lexington[1] while stay her with future husband's aunt, Lydia Hancock at the home of Rev. Jonas Clark, and nursed the injured.

Dorothy Quincy is memorialized today in the Dorothy Quincy Suite, a theater and ballroom complex in the old John Hancock tower, long a Boston landmark.

  1. ^ Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence (1997), Harry Clinton Green, Mary Wolcott Green, and David Barton, pp. 18-32


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