. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... etts, in 1737, and under the pat-ronage of a wealthy uncle, received a lib-eral education and was graduated at Har-vard College in 1754. On leaving college,he entered the counting house of his uncle,by whose sudden death in 1764 he suc-ceeded to great riches and the managementof an extensive business. In 1766 he waschosen a member of the assembly, andsoon distinguished himself by his zeal inthe cause of the colonies. In 1774 hewas elected president of the provincialcongress of Massachu
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... etts, in 1737, and under the pat-ronage of a wealthy uncle, received a lib-eral education and was graduated at Har-vard College in 1754. On leaving college,he entered the counting house of his uncle,by whose sudden death in 1764 he suc-ceeded to great riches and the managementof an extensive business. In 1766 he waschosen a member of the assembly, andsoon distinguished himself by his zeal inthe cause of the colonies. In 1774 hewas elected president of the provincialcongress of Massachusetts, and in thefollowing year president of the continentalcongress, in which capacity he was thefirst to affix his signature to the declara-tion of independence. In this station hecontinued till October 1777, when illhealth induced him to resign. In 1780 hewas elected governor of Massachusetts,and held that office for four successiveyears, and again from 1787 till his deathin 1793. Governor Hancock was hospita-ble and munificent, a man of excellent tal-ents for business, and a true lover of HANDEL or HAENDEL, GeorgeFrederic, the son of an eminent phy-sician, was born, in 1684, at Halle, inSaxony. His father intended him for thelaw, but as nothing could overcome themusical bent of the youthful Handelsmind, he reluctantly consented to his boing 308 HAN Qstruclcd in HiK first master waB|Zachaii, an organist, and he began to com- Cose in tlic niiilli yfur of his age. Afteraving Ktrufjgicd llirough conni(ieral>le dif-ficulties, Init still k(!|)t rising in reputaliiMi,he visited Italy in 1708; remained there,nuiLJi admired, during t«oyears; and thenreturned to Germany, and entered into theser\ice of the elector nf Hixnover, who wasafterwards George I. Ihc accession ofthai prince to the Ilitisli throne fixedHandel in England. In 1720 he wasplaced at tlie head of Italian opera;,ijut tills event, which .seemed to promisejfame and riches, ended in such se
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