Lenox MA: 1802 Letter from SAMUEL QUINCY to Gen. Thos. Ives of Great Barrington

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Lenox MA: 1802 Letter from SAMUEL QUINCY to Gen. Thos. Ives of Great Barrington
Addressed to General Tho. Ives, to be left at Cap'n Pychon's - Great Barrington. This letter was sealed with red wax, and I assume mailed, unless it was sent by an acquaintance. "Dear Sir/ I wish you to be so obligeing as to obtain several books of mine - which I lent George Stanley at the time he left Lenox - that is, if you com in a chair or sleigh next week - if you do not - get them into your possession if you can & oblige your friend Sam'l Quincy. Lenox Jan. 3: 1802." Overall size is about 6 x 8 inches, condition is fair, as shown.
Samuel Quincy was born in 1764 in Roxbury, Mass. He was a lawyer by profession, practicing in his native town, married a daughter of Mr. Hatch of Boston, Elizabeth, and had removed to Lenox, into the house before mentioned, a short time before his son Josiah was born. He had been a successful lawyer at Roxbury, and had accumulated a handsome property; but in the finan-cial troubles of 1787 he lost a large sum by being bondsman for a deputy-sheriff. In consequence of this and other reverses, he sold his property at Roxbury, and moved to Lenox, where, after collecting the few remnants of his fortune together, he found he had only sufficient to buy a cottage-house and half acre of land in Lenox village, to which he removed soon after the birth of his son, as above stated.
Here he engaged in the profession of the law, and was accounted an able lawyer, and succeeded in supporting his family comfortably for a few years, when he was stricken with paralysis in his right side, from which he never re- covered so as to be able to use his right hand and arm.
Thus deprived of the ability of self-support, the family became very poor; and the house was conveyed to Mr. Hatch of Boston, who held it many years. Mr. Quincy died Jan. 19, 1846, aged fifty-two years, leaving a widow and four children.
Thomas Ives was the son of Thomas and Ann Heaton Ives. In 1781, he became a major in the Berkshire Militia and performed his military service at Stillwate, New York. Ives was then briefly employed in 1782 by Oliver Phelps and Company, and furnished provisions for the army Superintendent at Burlington, NJ. Ives was the Collector of Inpost and Encise for Berkshire County, MA in 1783. He eventually settled in Great Barrington, MA as a lawyer. He purchased a house and large farm there.
As a firm supported of the Government during Shay's Rebellion, he saw service in a skirmish at Sheffield in February of 1787. He once again joined the ranks of the military from 1805 to 1809, attaining the rank of Major General in the Militia. Ives also served as both a State Representative and State Senator in Massachusetts as well as being the Justice of the County Court of Common Pleas.
Ives wiife, Ruth Foster, was the youngest child of the Honorable Jedediah Foster. They had seven daughters and five sons. Ives died a t Great Barrington, MA.
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