Hancock family papers, (inclusive). 1664-1854

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...

Apthorp, Charles.

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Scott, James

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Epithet: Captain; RN; KCB 1862; Admiral 1865 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x000050 Epithet: Secretary, Haddington Reform Association British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x00005f Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x00...

Henchman, Daniel, 1689-1761

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Daniel Henchman (1689-1761), the Boston, Mass. bookseller, was the son of Hezekiah ( -1694) and Abigail Henchman ( - ). Hezekiah was a son of Capt. Daniel Henchman ( -1685), a school teacher, fighter in King Philip's War, and one of the founders of Worcester, Mass. Daniel Henchman may have served an apprenticeship with a Boston bookseller, and by July, 1712, when the earliest ledger in this collection begins, he was in business for himself as a merchant. His business was...

Rebecca (Ship : 1799-1801)

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Hancock, Thomas, 1703-1764

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Lydia (Ship : 1821-1836)

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Whaling vessel; out of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by John Wood Leonard, on voyage from 14 Oct. 1854-21 May 1858; owner-agent: F.R. Whitwell; built at Rochester, Mass., 1840. From the description of Logbook of the ship Lydia, 1855 Jan. 5-1857 Mar. 4. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978387 Whaling vessel; out of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Elisha Babcock, Jr., on voyage from 16 May 1860-16 May 1864 to the Western, Steen, East Cape, Crozet, B...

Goadsby, Thomas.

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Faneuil, Peter, 1700-1743

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Hancock, Ebenezer.

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Hancock family.

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The Hancock family of Boston included wealthy colonial merchant Thomas Hancock (1703-1764) and his nephew John Hancock (1737-1793), president of the Second Continental Congress, governor of Massachusetts, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Hancock, the son of the Reverend John and Elizabeth Clark Hancock, was born in 1703 in Lexington, Massachusetts (then a part of the town of Cambridge.) At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Samuel Gerrish, a Boston bookse...