Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . s proposed to take it down and erect it anew on some othersite. Few will that such an historical anachronism wasnot committed. The building was pulled down, and with itdisappeared the only monument to the memory of John Han-cock, until one was recently erected in the Granary Ground. Governor Hancock entered the Latin School in 1745. Hewent to England when quite young, where he witnessed thecoronation of the monarch who afterwards set a price upon hishead. President of the Provincial Congress in 1774, of theContinental Congress in 1776,
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . s proposed to take it down and erect it anew on some othersite. Few will that such an historical anachronism wasnot committed. The building was pulled down, and with itdisappeared the only monument to the memory of John Han-cock, until one was recently erected in the Granary Ground. Governor Hancock entered the Latin School in 1745. Hewent to England when quite young, where he witnessed thecoronation of the monarch who afterwards set a price upon hishead. President of the Provincial Congress in 1774, of theContinental Congress in 1776, he first affixed his bold auto-graph to the Declaration of Independence, and it thus circu-lated upon the floor of Congress. We find him acting asmoderator at a town-meeting in 1778, the same year he wasappointed major-general of the Massachusetts militia. We haveseen him presiding over and directing the action of the conven-tion which ratified the Federal Constitution, and at the peace,the choice of the people of his native State as their chief. A TOUK ROUND THE COMMON. 343 magistrate, Hancock died sincerely regretted. If he had someconspicuous faults, they were more than counterbalanced by hismany noble qualities. Hancock was tall, nearly six feet, and thin. In later yearshe stooped a little, and was a martyr to the gout. In his attirehe was a type of the fine gentleman of liis day, — a scarlet coat,riclily embroidered, with rutiles of the finest linen, being hisordinary dress. We give herewith a fac-simile of the much-admired auto-graph of Governor Hancock appended to a ticket of the lotteryauthorized by law for the rebuilding of Faneuil Hall after thefire of 1761. The enTavinu; is of the exact size of the original. Boston June 176c. * Faneuil-n^W LOTTERY, No. Five. 1 HE Poffeffor of this Ticket {Ho 36^^^ ) *u JBtitlcd to atxjf Prize drawn again!) faid ^Number, io a Lottery granted by an Aft of ^the General Court of the Prorbce of xhz/yiafachufettt-Bay, for RcbaildiDg FAME
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