Sitting room
Josiah Quincy III inherited the house his grandfather had built the year his father, Josiah Quincy II, defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. He and his mother spent many happy summers here during his school breaks: “As early as 1780, it was a rule with my mother to take me at least once a year, during the summer vacation, to visit my grandfather at his seat in Braintree, now Quincy. It was always to me a delightful and eagerly expected visit, lasting generally three or four days, and it never failed to be a season of perfect and uninterrupted boyish felicity.”
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