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7 unusual facts about John Hancock


Florence E.S. Knapp

She was a descendant of Ebenezer Hancock, librarian of Harvard University and brother of John Hancock.

Hancock-Clarke House

The Reverend John Hancock, grandfather of the American revolutionary leader of the same name, purchased this site in 1699.

John Hancock, Jr.

Hancock graduated from Harvard College in 1719, and served as a librarian there from 1723 to 1726.

Reverend John Hancock

John Hancock, Jr. (1702 – 1744), colonial American clergyman and father of American politician John Hancock

John Hancock, Sr. (1671 – 1752), colonial American clergyman and paternal grandfather of American politician John Hancock

Sable Island National Park Reserve

This feral horse population is likely descended from horses confiscated from Acadians during the Great Expulsion and left on the island by Thomas Hancock, Boston merchant and uncle of John Hancock.

Slate Roof House

In later years, the house was the temporary abode of John Adams, John Hancock, and many other distinguished members of the First Continental Congress, and also of Baron Johann de Kalb, who fell, fighting for American independence, at the Battle of Camden.


Allan Brooks

Thanks to his father's connections, he interacted with Henry Seebohm and learnt egg-collection and butterfly collection from John Hancock.

Boston Neck

On the night of April 18, 1775, Patriot leader Doctor Joseph Warren sent Paul Revere and William Dawes on horseback with identical written messages to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British expedition to capture them and to seize the powder in Concord.

Bowl Coalition

The Bowl Coalition consisted of five conferences—the SEC, Big 8, SWC, ACC and Big East--independent Notre Dame, and six bowl games—the Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Gator and John Hancock bowls.

Bucks of America

Governor John Hancock and his son, John George Washington Hancock, presented the company with a white silk flag, featuring a leaping buck and a pine tree, the symbol of New England.

Charles S. West

During this tenure he established a partnership with Judge John Hancock; their law firm represented the Houston and Texas Central Railway.

Cogent Research

Cogent provides research services to multiple Fortune 500 companies located in the financial industry, including Bank of America, TD Ameritrade, John Hancock, Aetna, Prudential Financial, ING, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Great North Museum: Hancock

Amongst the founding and early members of the Natural History Society were Joshua Alder, Albany Hancock, John Hancock, Prideaux John Selby and William Chapman Hewitson.

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

Warren was a correspondent and adviser to many political leaders of the Revolutionary period, including Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and especially John Adams, who became her literary mentor in the years leading to the Revolution.

Janet Evans

After retiring from competitive swimming, Evans worked as a motivational speaker and corporate spokesperson for companies such as AT&T, Speedo, Campbell's, PowerBar, John Hancock, Cadillac, and Xerox.

Moland House

General George Washington received a dispatch from John Hancock, President of the Second Continental Congress, which told Washington that the 260-vessel British fleet, hauling 17,000 British Army and Hessian troops under General William Howe, was fifty miles south of the Delaware Capes (Cape May and Cape Henlopen) on August 7.

Syng inkstand

It is thus both a work of art and an important artifact from American history, having been used by such prominent founding fathers as Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and James Madison.


see also

Bernard Durning

He rose through the ranks of the studio as assistant to Edwin S. Porter, Charles Brabin, and John Hancock Collins.

Hancock Manor

In 1795, two years after John Hancock's death, the town of Boston purchased most of the estate for £4,000 and designated the pasture land as the site of the state's future capitol.

John Hancock Center

On April 16, 2009 at 6:00AM CDT, WYCC-TV transmitting off the John Hancock switched to all-digital broadcasting, becoming Chicago's first television station to stop broadcasting in an analog signal.

John Hancock Insurance

In 2000, led by David F. D'Alessandro, the company "demutualized", meaning that "John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company" formally ceased to exist, and a new company named "John Hancock Financial Services, Inc." came into existence.

Reverend John Hancock

John Hancock House, Cider Mill and Cemetery, Florham Park, New Jersey, listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey