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1. John Hancock, the President of the Congress, was the first to sign the sheet of parchment measuring 24¼ by 29¾ inches. (Web site)
2. John Hancock (March 4, 1941 – October 12, 1992) was an American film and television actor.
3. John Hancock, the president, presented the paper, and asked whether or not it should be read.
4. John Hancock was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in a part of town which eventually became the separate city of Quincy, Massachusetts.
5. John Hancock was born in Braintree, Massachusetts,[1] the son of Reverend John Hancock and Mary Hawke, whose ancestors had lived in nearby Hingham.

Commission

1. Photograph of commission, signed by John Hancock.

American History

1. In a biography awash in early American history, Unger celebrates the career of John Hancock, whose life was as large as his legendary signature.

Military Governor

1. As military governor, Gage ordered that colonial politicians Samuel Adams and John Hancock be arrested for treason.

George Washington

1. His death provided a political vacuum that John Hancock would fill leading to a U.S. founding prominence second only to George Washington. (Web site)

Liberty

1. Liberty was a sloop belonging to John Hancock confiscated by the Royal Navy in 1768 for failure to pay customs duties.

Congress

1. John Hancock, as the elected President of Congress, was the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. (Web site)

John Adams

1. Paine, a friend of John Adams and John Hancock, early became involved in the patriot movement. (Web site)

Adams

1. The people of Boston were outraged and while Adams was reelected that year he was outpolled by John Hancock.

Governor

1. Under the new state government, governor John Hancock appointed him to a commission to revise and consolidate the laws from colonial days.
2. He was elected as governor in 1793 to succeed John Hancock, and served to 1797, afterwards retiring to his home in Boston. (Web site)

Landscape Architect

1. John Hancock (1808-1890), naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist and landscape architect.

Sears Tower

1. All the while, offering unmatched views of our world-famous skyline, from the Sears Tower, to the John Hancock, to the Museum Campus, Aon Center and more. (Web site)
2. Chicago already has three of the 15 tallest buildings in the world: the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Center and Aon Center. (Web site)

Massachusetts

1. Between the resignation of John Hancock and the inauguration of James Bowdoin, he served as Acting Governor of Massachusetts in 1785.

Samuel Adams

1. Samuel Adams and John Hancock had fled Boston to the home of one of Hancock's relatives in Lexington where they thought they would be safe. (Web site)
2. James Otis, Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock were selected as representatives to meet Committees of other towns in a convention.
3. Samuel Adams and John Hancock were eventually moved to safety, first to what is now Burlington and later to Billerica.

John Hancock

1. Franklin and Adams enter, and the delegates, John Hancock (President of the Congress) and Charles Thomson (Secretary of the Congress), take their places.
2. At times, this left the military in a precarious position, as George Washington wrote in a 1781 letter to the governor of Massachusetts, John Hancock.
3. John Hancock made it known to all the delegates that he wanted the high office and as President expects to be nominated. (Web site)

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