The history and antiquities of Boston .. . haps, the first public demonstration of the determina-tion of the people of Boston to carry out the views expressed in thelate Agreement. There was a much greater funeral occasion but alittle more than a month before this of Mr. Callenders, but the timefor a demonstration had not then arrived, or the individual of the occa-sion did not warrant such an exhibition of opposition to taxation prin-ciples. The individual occasion referred to was the funeral of the Hancock, one of His Majestys Council. He died of apoplexy on the first day of Augu
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . haps, the first public demonstration of the determina-tion of the people of Boston to carry out the views expressed in thelate Agreement. There was a much greater funeral occasion but alittle more than a month before this of Mr. Callenders, but the timefor a demonstration had not then arrived, or the individual of the occa-sion did not warrant such an exhibition of opposition to taxation prin-ciples. The individual occasion referred to was the funeral of the Hancock, one of His Majestys Council. He died of apoplexy on the first day of August, about three of the clock in theafternoon, having been seized aboutnoon of the same day, just as he wasentering the Council Chamber. Hewas in the sixty-second year of hisage, and was one of the most notedmerchants in New England.! Hewas the first American to found aprofessorship of any kind in thiscountry. But the practice of wearing ex-pensive mourning-dresses was soonvery generally laid aside. Otherfunerals, which soon after followed. HANCOCK HOUSE. * Gazette and News-Letter. languages in Harvard College ; £1,000, law- t He was buried on the following Monday, ful money, to the Society for PropagatingAugust 6th, with great respect. He was the Gospel among the Indians; £600 to theeon of the Rev. Mr. John Hancock, of Lex- Town of Boston towards an Insane Hospital,ington, and was born there July 13th, 1703 ; and £200 to the Society for carrying on thebeing sent to Boston early in life to learn the Linen ]\Ianufactory. But, having no issue,business of stationer, etc., which business he he left the bulk of his estate to his nephew,left for a more extensive field of mercantile Mr. John Hancock, eldest son of the lateenterprise. His house was the seat of hos- Rev. Mr. [John] Hancock, of Braintree. His wife, as mentioned in aprevious note, p. 648, wasLydia Henchman. Tlie oncesplendid mansion in Beacon-street, yet standing, was builtby the Hon. Thomas Hancock,pitality, where all
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