John Hancock
By: Kate Domogalla
Family
- Dorothy Quincy Wife
- John Hancock Jr. was his son
- John George Washington Hancock
- Lydia Henchamn Hancock
Life
Born January 23, 1737
Died October 8 1793
Was an American merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
His Part in Boston Tea Party
John Hancock did not directly participate in the Boston tea party. But he stood to lose the most from the East India Company imports of English tea to Boston. On the other hand Samuel Adams who led the Mohawks aboard the British ships was so close to John Hancock that Bostonians even joked that "Sam Adams writes the letters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the postage". You do the math.