BIB_ID
105685
Accession number
MA 552.5
Creator
Hancock, Thomas, 1703-1764.
Display Date
undated [after 1764?].
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31.7 cm
Notes
Endorsed on the verso: "Extract from the Will of the late Hon. Thomas Hancock Esq. relative to a Bedlam."
From the W.C. Ford Collection.
John Hancock's signature has been pasted below the excerpt from the will, however this is the will of Thomas Hancock, John Hancock's uncle.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
From the W.C. Ford Collection.
John Hancock's signature has been pasted below the excerpt from the will, however this is the will of Thomas Hancock, John Hancock's uncle.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Summary
An excerpt from Thomas Hancock's will in which he leaves £600 to the town of Boston for the erection of "a convenient House for the Reception and more Comfortable keeping of such unhappy persons as it shall please God in his Providence to Deprive of their reason in any part of this Province."
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