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Finding aid created by: LMD
Date: 28 Apr 2010
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Creator: | Hancock, John, 1737-1793 |
Title: | John Hancock Letter |
Dates: | 1770 |
Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
Abstract: | Letter written by the American founding father to a lawyer in New London, Connecticut. |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
John Hancock (1737-1793) was a merchant, statesman, and leader during the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress (1775–77, 1785–86) and Governor of Massachusetts (1780–85, 1787–93). He was also famous for his large signature on the Declaration of Independence.
The John Hancock Letter is dated Boston 15 Feb 1770 and addressed to Richard Laws, Esq. of New London, Connecticut. In the letter, Hancock discusses various financial matters Laws was involved in handling.
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Persons
Hancock, John, 1737-1793.
Corporate Bodies
United States. -- Declaration of Independence -- Signers -- Correspondence.
Places
Boston (Mass.) -- History.
New London (Conn.) -- History.
Genres and Forms
Correspondence.
Occupations
Politicians.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
John Hancock Letter,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Charles Rosenthal, 1960.
Correspondence
Correspondence | |||||||||||
SC 473 | 1770 |