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Excerpt from John Hancock: The Picturesque Patriot John hancock's famous signature has made him more Widely known than most other and later signers of the Declaration of Independence. Yet less is commonly known about him than concern ing other prominent patriots of the Revolution. He was active and conspicuous in his time; but he left few materials for a biography, and these for the most part in remote hiding places. John Adams once remarked, The Life of John Han cock will not ever be written. Twenty years later, when political disagreements were overlooked, Adams wrote, If I had the forces I should be glad to write a volume of Mr. Hancock's life, Character, and generous nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.