Parlor chamber
Eliza Susan Quincy, one of Josiah Quincy III’s seven children, became the self-styled historian of the Quincy family and the house. Eliza Susan Quincy documented the house, which was her permanent home from 1855 until her death in 1884, and the history she saw being shaped within it. She spent a good part of her life writing about the house, protecting it, and retrieving from far-flung family members the original furnishings. She persuaded many of her relatives to return heirlooms to the house so that they might be on display in their original setting. In 1879 she compiled “the List of Pictures and Furniture in the House built 1770,” and also left behind her finely detailed 1822 watercolors of the house and its view to Boston Harbor. She recorded the story of the high chest kept in this front bedroom, noting that it was saved from two house fires during Josiah Quincy I’s lifetime.
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