Lot 33
Hancock, John. Autograph Document, signed
Sale 6308 - Printed and Manuscript Americana
Jan 29, 2025
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Hancock, John. Autograph Document, signed
(Boston), April 15, 1772. One sheet, approximately 6 x 7 1/2 in. (152 x 190 mm) (sight). Autograph document, signed by John Hancock as Speaker pro tempore of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, settling the account of Thomas Dennie: "In the House of Representatives April 15 1772 The within Account being read. Accepted and Resolvd that there be allowed & paid to Mr. Thomas Dennie & others therein mentiond the Sum of forty four pounds ten Shillings & two pence half pence in full discharge of said Account Sent up for Concurrence John Hancock Spkr pro Temp." Inscribed below by Deputy Secretary John Cotton. Further inscribed by Hancock below above, and crossed out: "In the House of Representatives April 15 1772 The within account read & accepted. Resolvd that the Treasurer be & hereby is directed to Mr. John Dennie & others therein mentioned the several Sums". Also inscribed by Hancock along right side, "Major Foster Mr. Thurston Mr. Henry". Itemized manuscript on verso in another hand, for Thomas Dennie, John Whitcomb, and Benjamin White. Creasing from old folds, scattered repairs along same, recto and verso. In mat with engraved portrait of Hancock, and unexamined out of double-pane glass frame, 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (521 x 317 mm). From the library of J. Ackerman Coles, with his faint ink stamp on verso.
An uncommon document from John Hancock as Speaker of the Massachusetts colonial House of Representatives, settling an account for Boston merchant Thomas Dennie (1756–1842).
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