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—LETTER FROM JOHN HANCOCK, PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, TO GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON† (source)
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"These things are melancholy, but they are nevertheless true," Washington reported to John Hancock.† (source)
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Revere and his close friend Joseph Warren became more and more convinced that the British were about to make the major move that had long been rumored — to march to the town of Lexington, northwest of Boston, to arrest the colonial leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and then on to the town of Concord to seize the stores of guns and ammunition that some of the local colonial militia had stored there.† (source)
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Among the acquaintances and colleagues who march across the pages of his diary are Sam Adams (a kinsman), John Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lafayette, John Jay, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Lincoln, James Buchanan, William Lloyd Garrison, Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis and many others.† (source)
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Whenever Thompson twanged, "Put your John Hancock on that line," Babbitt was as much amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American.† (source)
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Among his clients were many of the richest men in the colony, including John Hancock.† (source)
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On Saturday the 14th, Washington received another directive from John Hancock.† (source)
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At ten o'clock, with the doors closed, John Hancock sounded the gavel.† (source)
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John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, was thirty-nine, John Adams, forty, Thomas Jefferson, thirty-two, younger even than the young Rhode Island general.† (source)
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There was no money in his background, no Adams fortune or elegant Adams homestead like the Boston mansion of John Hancock.† (source)
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In formal acceptance of the new command, on June 16, 1775, standing at his place in Congress, he had addressed John Hancock: I am truly sensible of the high honor done me in this appointment, yet I feel great distress from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.† (source)
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"It is not in the pages of history, perhaps, to furnish a case like ours," Washington informed John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress.† (source)
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Washington accepted the decision, but work on the flat-bottomed boats continued, and in a long letter to John Hancock, he made the case for a "decisive stroke," adding, "I cannot say that I have wholly laid it aside."† (source)
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On Monday, June Io, after President John Hancock reconvened the assembly, Rutledge and the "cool party" succeeded in having the finalvote delayed for twenty days, until July 1, to allow delegates from the middle colonies time to send for new instructions.† (source)
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He was as prominent and trustworthy a man as any in the province, it was thought, a member of the Provincial Congress, poet, author, a Harvard classmate of John Hancock, and an outspoken patriot.† (source)
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On the day he had called on his fellow delegates to put their colleague, "the gentleman fromVirginia," in command at Boston, Washington, out of modesty, had left the chamber, while a look of mortification, as Adams would tell the story, filled the face of John Hancock, who had hoped he would be chosen.† (source)
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