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See also:HANCOCK, See also:JOHN (1737–1793) , See also:American Revolutionary statesman, was See also:born in that See also:part of See also:Braintree, See also:Massachusetts, now known as See also:Quincy, on the 23rd of See also:January 1737. After graduating from Harvard in 1754, he entered the See also:mercantile See also:house of his See also:uncle, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Hancock of See also:Boston, who had adopted him, and on whose See also:death, in 1764, he See also:fell See also:heir to a large See also:fortune and a prosperous business. In 1765 he became a selectman of Boston, and from 1766 to 1772 was a member of the Massachusetts See also:general See also:court. An event which is thought to have greatly influenced Hancock's subsequent career was the seizure of the See also:sloop " See also:Liberty " in 1768 by the customs See also:officers for discharging, without paying the duties, a See also:cargo of See also:Madeira See also:wine consigned to Hancock. Many suits were thereupon entered against Hancock, which, if successful, would have caused the See also:confiscation of his See also:estate, but which undoubtedly enhanced his popularity with the Whig See also:element and increased his resentment against the See also:British See also:government. He was a member of the See also:committee appointed in a Boston See also:town See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting immediately after the " Boston See also:Massacre " in 1770 to demand the removal of British troops from the town. In 1774 and 1775 he was See also:president of the first and second Provincial Congresses respectively, and he shared with See also:Samuel See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams the leadership of the Massachusetts Whigs in all the irregular See also:measures preceding the See also:War of American See also:Independence. The famous expedition sent by General Thomas See also:Gage of Massachusetts to See also:Lexington and See also:Concord on the 18th-19th of See also:April 1775 had for its See also:object, besides the destruction of materials of war at Concord, the See also:capture of Hancock and Adams, who were temporarily staying at Lexington, and these two leaders were expressly excepted in the See also:proclamation of See also:pardon issued on the 12th of See also:June by Gage, their offences, it was said, being " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other See also:consideration than that of condign See also:punishment." Hancock was a member of the See also:Continental See also:Congress from 1775 to 1780, was president of it from May 1775 to See also:October
1777, being the first to sign the See also:Declaration of Independence, and was a member of the See also:Confederation Congress in 1785–1786. In 1778 he commanded, as See also:major-general of See also:militia, the Massachusetts troops who participated in the Rhode See also:Island expedition. He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional See also:Convention of 1779–1780, became the first See also:governor of the See also:state, and served from 1780 to 1785 and again from 1787 until his death. Although
at first unfriendly to the Federal Constitution as drafted by the convention at See also:Philadelphia, he was finally won over to its support, and in 1788 he presided over the Massachusetts convention which ratified the See also:instrument. Hancock was not by nature a See also:leader, but he wielded See also:great See also:influence on See also:account of his See also:wealth and social position, and was liberal, public-spirited, and, as his repeated See also:election—the elections were See also:annual—to the governor-See also:ship attests, exceedingly popular. He died at Quincy, See also:Mass., on the 8th of October 1793.
See Abram E. See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, John Hancock, His See also:Book (Boston, 1898), a See also:work consisting largely of extracts from Hancock's letters.
End of Article: HANCOCK, JOHN (1737–1793)
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