Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 388
gress in 1774, of theContinental Congress in 1776, he first affixed his bold auto-graph to the Declaration of Independence, and it thus circu-lated upon the floor of Congress. We find him acting asmoderator at a town-meeting in 1778, the same year he wasappointed major-general of the Massachusetts… … m O o t3 o w o o ■< w A TOUR EOUND THE COMMON. 343 magistrate. Hancock died sincerely regretted. If he had someconspicuous faults, they were more than counterbalanced by hismany noble qualities. Hancock was tall, nearly six feet, and thin. In later yearshe stooped a little, and was a martyr to…
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