John Hancock ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: merchant: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. ¹

• Education: graduated from Harvard, 1754, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massechusetts, United States. ¹

• Political: Boston Selectman, 1765-1774, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. ¹

• Political: President of the Provincial Congress, 1774, Massechusetts, United States. ¹

• Political: President of the Second Continental Congress, 1775-1777, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. ¹

• Political: first to sign the United States Declaration of Indepenence, 1776, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. ¹

• Political: Governor, 1780-1785, Massechusetts, United States. ¹

• Political: Governor, 1787-1793, Massechusetts, United States. ¹

John married Dorothy Quincy in 1775.¹ (Dorothy Quincy was born in 1747 ¹ and died in 1830 ¹.)