"I have been told that time would wear out the greatest sorrow, but mine I find is still increasing. When it will have reached its summit, I know not." Abigail Quincy
She never remarried and spent the rest of her life caring for only surviving child and her husband's rich American Revolution legacy. Abigail Quincy did both well. Her son Josiah III became Mayor of Boston and her husband in remembered in American history as "The Patriot" and one of the founding Fathers of an emerging republic- the United States of America.
"I have been told that time would wear out the greatest sorrow, but mine I find is still increasing. When it will have reached its summit, I know not." Abigail Quincy
She never remarried and spent the rest of her life caring for only surviving child and her husband's rich American Revolution legacy. Abigail Quincy did both well. Her son Josiah III became Mayor of Boston and her husband in remembered in American history as "The Patriot" and one of the founding Fathers of an emerging republic- the United States of America.
Inscription
In Memory Of
ABIGAIL PHILLIPS QUINCY
Born April 14, 1745 – Died March 25, 1798
and her husband
JOSIAH QUINCY JR.
The Patriot
Born Feb. 23, 1744 – Died April 26, 1775
Erected by
ABIGAIL PHILLIPS QUINCY Chapter
of Wollaston
Daughters of the
American Revolution
April 28, 1922
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