John Hancock: His BookJohn Hancock, President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, 23 January 1737, the son of John Hancock and Mary Hawkes. He married Dorothy Quincy (1747-1830), daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Wendell Quincy, 28 August 1775. They had two children. Both died young. He died 8 October 1795. |
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Contents
51 | 1 |
The Famous Autograph Hancock Wharf John Wendell | 8 |
CHAPTER V | 21 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | John Hancock: His Book |
| Author | Abram English Brown |
| Publisher | Lee and Shepard, 1898 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0795020473, 9780795020476 |
| Length | 286 pages |
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