It was filial tenderness that gave the name.

It was the name of one passing from earth to immortality.
These have been among the strongest links of my attachment to the name of Quincy, and have been to me, through life, a perpetual admonition to do nothing unworthy of it." It cannot be doubted that the character of the person from whom, in such affecting circumstances, he derived an honorable patronymic, was an object of emulation.

John Quincy was a gentleman of wealth, education, and influence.

He was for a long time Speaker of the House of Representatives in Massachusetts, and during many years one of His Majesty's Provincial Council.

He was a faithful representative, and throughout his public services, a vigorous defender of the rights and liberties of the Colony.
Exemplary in private life, and earnest in piety, he enjoyed the public confidence, through a civil career of forty years' duration.
The American Revolution was rapidly hurrying on during the infancy of John Quincy Adams.