| Edmund Quincy III | |
| Birth Date: | 14 Oct 1681 |
| Birth Place: | Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Death Date: | 23 Feb 1737 |
| Death Place: | London, England |
| Resting Place: | Burnhill Fields Burial Grounds, London, England |
| Education: | Harvard University 1699 |
| Occupation: | Merchant and Judge |
| Judge, Colonel, Commissioner | |
| Spouse: | Dorothy Flynt (1678 - 1737) |
| Children: | 6 |
| Parents: | Edmund Quincy (1628–1698) and Elizabeth Gookin (1645-1700) |
| Relatives: | Quincy political family |
Edmund Quincy III (; 1681–1737) was an American merchant and judge. He was the son of Col. Edmund Quincy II (1627-1698) II and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 7 children. Four lived to adulthood, including Edmund Quincy IV and Dorothy Quincy, who was the topic of a famous poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.[1] [2]
Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a magistrate, Supreme Court judge from 1718 until his death, and a colonel in the Massachusetts militia. In 1737, he was appointed to a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.[3] However, he contracted smallpox and died before his return to Massachusetts. The colony built a monument at his grave in Brunhill Fields Burial Ground in London and gave 1000acres in Lenox to his family as a tribute for all of his efforts.