The Hancock Family History PDF Download

Correspondence, sermons, biographical materials, bills and receipts, and other papers, of members of the Hancock family. Includes account (1748-1750) of Rev. John Hancock with Thomas Hancock, merchant and bookseller, in Boston, for goods purchased; two letters (1886 and undated) written by Thomas Minns to Rev. C.A. Staples relating to the Boston estate of Thomas Hancock and information on the tomb in Fairfield, Conn., of Mrs. Lydia Hancock, widow of Thomas Hancock; notes (2 v., 1690-1698), taken by Rev. John Hancock on discourses (sermons) delivered by Cotton Mather and others; biography (undated) of Rev. John Hancock; letters (ca. 15 items, chiefly 1740s) from Christopher Kilby (1705-1771), wealthy Boston merchant, written to Thomas Hancock and also other correspondence and papers of Kilby, concerning shipping and real estate ventures, including some details of the Louisbourg affair (1745); broadside concerning the death of Gov. John Hancock (1793 Oct. 8); election sermon preached by Rev. John Hancock, before Samuel Shute, Esq., relating to the election of counsellors (May 30, 1722), including signature of Thomas Hancock on back cover; two discourses on the death of Rev. John Hancock by Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, preached at Lexington Dec. 17, 1752; deed (1698-1699) of Nathaniel Hancock, of Cambridge, to John Hancock, concerning land in Cambridge; and bill of sale (1797 Mar. 17) for sale of "Coniac Brandy" by Thomas and John Hancock to Mr. William Dodd, and list of payments (1769-1800) received by the Hancocks for the boarding of Timothy Dodd, Jr.