The Hon. Edmund Quincy Cup: An American Silver Two-handled Caudle Cup, Thomas Savage, Boston, 1699

of gourd form, engraved on one side with the Quincy arms under foliate mantle and on the base with initials BC [Braintree Church] 1699, the other side retrospectively engraved Gift of/ Edmund Quincy Esq./ to the First Church of Braintree/ now Quincy by Will dated/ December 11, 1697, with knuckled scrolled handles fluted at the top on each side

First Congregational Society Church, Quincy (formerly Braintree), Mass., 1699 to 2001
Sold Sotheby's New York, January 19, 2001

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: American Church Silver, 1911, no. 936
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1930

E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches, Letchworth (England): Arden Press, 1913, pp. 394
Patrocoa E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988, p. 888
W.S. Pattee, History of Old Braintree and Quincy, 1878, p. 244 (where it is recorded without the 19th century commemorative inscription)

The Edmund Quincy of this cup was the son of Edmund Quincy (I), known as "The Emigrant" (1602-35) and Judith Pares (d. 1654; she married as her third husband Robert Hull, father of the silversmith John Hull). Edmund (I) came to Massachusetts in 1628, and returned in 1633 with his wife and children, including Edmund (II) and Judith (b. 1626), who in 1647 married John Hull. He was one of the committee appointed to purchase the rights of William Blackstone to the Shawmut Peninsula. In 1635, the year of his death, he received a grant of several thousand acres of land in the Mount Woolaston area, which was set off from Boston as a distinct township under the name Braintree.
Edmund Quincy (II) (1627-1698) was born in Northamptonshire; in 1648 he married Joanna Hoar, daughter of Leonard Hoar, president of Harvard College. He was very active in civic duties, being first major and lieutenant-colonel in Braintree and magistrate and representative of his town in the general court. In 1680, he married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of major-general Daniel Gookin and widow of Rev. John Eliot. In 1688 he formed part of the provisional government until the arrival of the new charter of William and Mary.
Edmund Quincy (II) died January 8, 1698. His will, dated December 11, 1697, bequeathed "to the Church of Brantrey one piece of Plate of the value of 45 shillings." His widow and his son Edmund (III) were appointed executors.
Edmund Quincy (II) had another son, Daniel Quincy (1651-1690), who trained as a silversmith under John Hull, his uncle by marriage. Daniel lived with the Hulls from the age of seven and was trained in the Hull and Sanderson workshop. According to the diary of his friend Samuel Sewall, Quincy "used to keep the account in the shop." His role seems to have been largely administrative, and Patricia E. Kane does not list any silver known to have been made by him. Together with Samuel Sewall, he helped maintain the Hull and Sanderson shop after John Hull's death in 1683. Daniel Quincy predeceased his father, but left a son John Quincy (b. 1689).
Patricia E. Kane records only fourteen pieces for Thomas Savage (1664-1749), and only this one caudle cup. Born in Boston, it is not certain to whom Savage was apprenticed, though given the donor's links to the Hull and Sanderson shop through his son Daniel, it is tempting to suspect an association. In 1689 he was admitted as a freeman, and in 1690 he accepted Samuel Haugh as an apprentice. In 1691 he married Mehitable Harwood. He was a member of the Artillery Company, clerk of the market in 1694, and constable in 1697. About 1706 to 1714, Savage and his family lived on Bermuda, but he had returned by 1714 when he applied for a license to serve hard liquor. In 1738 he moved to Newbury and died there in 1749.