Sold – John Hancock Signed Appointment From 1783
Signed as Governor of Massachusetts appointing the coroner of Cumberland County (now in Maine).
President of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, he was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. His signature on that document may be the most famous American autograph. Returning to his home state, he served as governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785 and again from 1787 until his death in...
President of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, he was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. His signature on that document may be the most famous American autograph. Returning to his home state, he served as governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785 and again from 1787 until his death in 1793.
Document Signed as Governor, Boston, September 26, 1783, appointing Peleg Chandler the coroner of Cumberland County (now in Maine). Hancock’s signature is large and fine, looking just as it is popularly remembered; the state seal is still intact. The appointee was the grandfather of Peleg Whitman Chandler, a noted attorney in Boston, who established the Law Reporter and compiled the book, American Criminal Trials.
This is the earliest document of Hancock as Governor that we have had, those available generally being from his second term. On the verso, a notary states that Chandler had personally appeared before him and taken the required oath.
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