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Nina SankovitchsAmerican Rebelsexplores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.
Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate connections during their childhood in Braintree, Massachusetts. Raised as loyal British subjects who quickly saw the need to rebel, their collaborations against the Crown and Parliament were formed years before the revolution and became stronger during the period of rising taxes and increasing British troop presence in Boston. Together, the families witnessed the horrors of the Boston Massacre, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and Bunker Hill; the trials and tribulations of the Siege of Boston; meetings of the Continental Congress; transatlantic missions for peace and their abysmal failures; and the final steps that led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
American Rebelsexplores how the desire for independence cut across class lines, binding people together as well as dividing themrebels versus loyalistsas they pursued commonly-held goals of opportunity, liberty, and stability. Nina Sankovitchs new book is a fresh history of our revolution that makes readers look more closely at Massachusetts and the small town of Braintree when they think about the story of Americas early years.

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The Quincy Family

Edmund Quincy II (16281698) had thirteen children, including Daniel Quincy and Edmund Quincy III:

Daniel Quincy (16511690) + Anne Shepherd (16331708) = Colonel John Quincy

Colonel John Quincy (16891767) + Elizabeth Norton Quincy (16961769) = they had three children, including Norton and Elizabeth

Norton Quincy (17161801) never married

Elizabeth Quincy (17211775) + Rev. William Smith (17061783) = Elizabeth, Mary, Abigail, William

Mary Smith (17411811) + Richard Cranch (17261811) = Elizabeth, William, Joseph, Lucy

Abigail Smith (17441818) + John Adams (see below) = Abigail (Nabby), John Quincy, Susanna (Suky), Charles, Thomas

Edmund Quincy III (16811737) + Dorothy Flynt Quincy (16781737) = they had four children, including Edmund Quincy IV and Josiah Quincy

Edmund Quincy IV (17041769) + Elizabeth Wendell Quincy (17061746) = Edmund Quincy V, Henry, Abraham, Elizabeth, Katy, Esther, Sarah, Dorothy (Dolly)

Sarah Quincy (17361790) + William Greenleaf (17381793) = John Hancock Greenleaf

Elizabeth Quincy (17291770) + Rev. Samuel Sewall (17151771)

Esther Quincy (17381810) + Jonathan Sewall (17291796) = Jonathan, Stephen

Dolly Quincy (17471830) + John Hancock (see below) = Lydia, John George Washington

Josiah Quincy (17101784) married three times:

+ Hannah Sturgis Quincy (17121755) = Edmund, Samuel, Hannah, Josiah Quincy Jr.

+ Elizabeth Waldron Quincy (17221759) = Elizabeth

+ Anne Marsh (17231805) = Nancy, Frances

Edmund (Ned) Quincy (17331768) + Rebecca Lloyd: marriage planned, but Ned died

Samuel Quincy (17351789) + Hannah Hill (17341782) = Hannah, Sam Jr., Thomas

Hannah Quincy (17361826) + Bela Lincoln (17341773) = no children

Josiah Quincy Jr. (17441775) + Abigail Phillips (17451798) = Josiah III, Abigail

The Hancock Family

Bishop John Hancock (of Lexington, 16711752) + Elizabeth Clark (16741760) = they had seven children, including the Reverend John Hancock and Thomas Hancock

The Reverend John Hancock (17021744) + Mary Hawke (17111783) = John, Mary, Ebenezer

Thomas Hancock (17031764) + Lydia Henchman (17141776) = adopted John Hancock following death of his father, Reverend Hancock, in 1744

John Hancock (17371793) + Dolly Quincy (see above) = Lydia, John George Washington

The Adams Family

Joseph Adams (16541736) + Hannah Bass (16671705) = they had nine children, including John

Deacon John Adams (16911761) + Susanna Boylston (17081797) = they had four children, including John

John Adams (17351826) + Abigail Smith (see above) = Abigail (Nabby), John Quincy, Susanna (Suky), Charles, Thomas

The most important part of everything is the beginning.

JOSIAH QUINCY JR.

Every moment of our existence has some connection

to an eternal succession of future ages.

EDMUND QUINCY IV

In the spring of 1744, a congregation in the small village of Braintree, south of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, gathered to mourn the death of their minister, the Reverend John Hancock. Outside the church, the heavens opened up. Rain streamed down, drenching the wild bluebells that grew in the high meadows of Penns Hill overlooking the sea, dripping from the apple trees planted in ordered lines behind the villages low houses, and running in widening rivulets between freshly plowed spring fields. Inside the church, its stone walls were streaked with black lines of damp and the windows steamed in the warmth rising off the gathered mourners.

Six years earlier, in 1738, Reverend Hancock gave the funeral sermon for Braintree villager Edmund Quincy III, who had died the year before while visiting England. There was no body to bury but much to mourn. In his sermon, Hancock lamented the many afflictions of the Quincy family, having endured a year of many family deaths, including the death of Edmunds wife, Dorothy Flynt Quincy. But not only had the family suffered from their losses, Reverend Hancock preached: the community as a whole had been wounded, for the strength of the whole derived from the contributions of each individual inhabitant.

What Reverend Hancock could not have known in 1738and what no one in the church knew on the day of his funeral in 1744was that from this village, Braintree, and this parish, the North Parish, would come the men and women who would shape the history of America. From the Quincy family, whose losses were so heavy in 1738; from the Adams family, whose patriarch served as deacon to the North Parish Church; and from Reverend Hancocks own family would come the leaders of the next generation, the rebels who would foment a revolution.

The rebels were still childrenor not yet even bornand their time to lead was still decades away. But their storythe shared story of John Hancock, Dolly Quincy, John Adams, Abigail Smith, and Josiah Quincy Jr.began on that day in May 1744, when a community gathered to mourn their spiritual leader.

Reverend Hancocks son John was seven years old when his father died. On the day of the funeral, he sat in the same pew he had sat in every Sunday listening to his father preach. Beside him sat his mother, Mary Hawke Hancock, his sister, Mary, and his brother, Ebenezer.

Braintree may this day be called Bochim, a place of Weepers, began the Reverend Ebenezer Gay. Gay was minister of the Old Ship Church in Hingham but had come to Braintree to preach the funeral sermon of his good friend, John Hancock. Reverend Gay looked out over the crowded church, every pew taken up and more people standing with their heads bowed. All the community had come together to mourn the too-short life of a very good man.

Reverend Hancock had loved his North Parish ministry, a small but solid community of Congregationalists settled by the bay. Hed been raised inland, in the town of Lexington, the oldest son of the man hed been named for, and in whose footsteps he had at first followed. His father was a minister so powerful that he was called the Bishop of Lexington, a minister so persuasive that a brand-new meetinghouse had been built for him when he commanded it, its spire visible from the countryside all around. And yet when the younger Reverend Hancock was ready to preach, he left Lexington and came to Braintree, eager for the sea and for a different style of preaching.

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