1To John Adams from William Tudor, 21 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
...has thought fit to dismiss the honorable John Hancock Esqr. from his Command as Colonel...
2To John Adams from William Tudor, 22 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
...Cushing, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and William Phillips were chosen virtually unanimously to...
3Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
...respectively, one of which came by John Hancock’s servant and the other by the Halls of...
4Abigail Adams to John Adams, 18 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
...on the 19th. of April, to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams on their way to attend...
5To John Adams from William Tudor, 26 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
...down his arms except for Samuel Adams and John Hancock, “whose offenses are of too flagitous a...
6Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
...speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses; on 24 May John Hancock was elected to succeed him (
...at the same time as similar ones for John Hancock and Samuel Adams (Records of the States,...
8Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock was married on 28 Aug. to Dorothy, daughter of...
9To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 31 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
...1775, was unequivocal in its stand (James Otis to John Hancock, 11 Nov.,
10Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress, 11 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
...Cushing, Robert Treat Paine, and John Hancock as members of the Massachusetts...
11To John Adams from Benjamin Hichborn, 25 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
As Samuel Adams and John Hancock had been excepted from Gage’s pardon on 12 June...
12To John Adams from James Swan, 4 December 1775 (Adams Papers)
...Oliver Esqr, of Salem, who with the Honl. John Hancock Esq., Mr. Fairweather, Mr. Ben Andrews...
13The General Court to the Massachusetts Delegates, 5 December 1775 (Adams Papers)
...); addressed: “To The Honble. John Hancock Esq President of the American Congress...
14To John Adams from Thomas Crafts Jr., 16 December 1775 (Adams Papers)
Probably Col. John Hancock, the only member of the Massachusetts delegation with any...
15To John Adams from Samuel Adams, 22 December 1775 (Adams Papers)
, 3:444–445). John Hancock, who, according to Richard Smith of New Jersey,...
16Enclosure: Resolution Appointing Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress, 18 January 1776 (Adams Papers)
Whereas John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and...
17Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1776 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock.
18To John Adams from John Winthrop, 5 April 1776 (Adams Papers)
...assistant treasurer of Harvard College by John Hancock, the Treasurer, to bring to...
19The General Court to the Massachusetts Delegates, 9 – 10 May 1776 (Adams Papers)
...No. 65); addressed: “To The Honble. John Hancock Esqr. & others the Delegates from the Colony...
20Enclosure: John Hancock to John Adams, 16 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
The mansion of John Hancock, built by his uncle Thomas Hancock in 1737, stood...
21To John Adams from Samuel Purviance Jr., 18 September 1776 (Adams Papers)
...Campbell’s letter of 8 Sept. to John Hancock, which lists the prizes brought into Chincoteague...
22Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates, 10 December 1776 (Adams Papers)
Whereas, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge...
23Vernejoux to the President of the Board of War, 4 March 1777 (Adams Papers)
.... I have send to this Excellencys John Hancock one Letter of Recomendetion of the...
24To John Adams from James Warren, 5 May 1777 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock was named first major general of the militia on 8...
25From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 21 August 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
letter to John Hancock, 19 Oct. 1778
26To John Adams from James Lovell, 14 November 1777 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock resigned from the presidency of the congress on 29 Oct...
27To John Adams from John Hancock, 2 February 1778 (Adams Papers)
From John Hancock
28To John Adams from James Warren, 7 June 1778 (Adams Papers)
That is, John Hancock.John Hancock left Boston on 3 June, escorted by “a detachment...
29To John Adams from James Warren, 7 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
.... Vigorous efforts by George Washington, John Hancock, and others, who recognized the...
30To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 15 October 1778 (Adams Papers)
...ambitions of the “Idol,” i.e. John Hancock. An alternative explanation would be that Daniel...
31To John Adams from John Boylston, 5 January 1779 (Adams Papers)
...William, or Guillaume, Taylor had served as John Hancock’s secretary while he was president of...
32To John Adams from William Gordon, 8 May 1779 (Adams Papers)
Probably a reference to John Hancock. In letters to James Warren on
33Richard Cranch to John Adams, 26 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
...the following August until early April 1780. John Hancock, although a delegate, did not attend...
34Bidé de Chavagnes to John Adams: A Translation, 4 May 1780 (Adams Papers)
, 2:332. The portrait of John Hancock has not been identified.
35Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
...the new Constitution. In the Adams vocabulary John Hancock was a “tinkleling cymball,” and...
36To John Adams from Samuel Adams, 10 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock and James Bowdoin. Both Samuel Adams and
37To John Adams from William Gordon, 22 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
...his financial contributions, John Hancock was elected treasurer of Harvard College in 1773....
38Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock; see the addition to this letter dated ...For Governor. Honr. John Hancock, Esqr. 95...
39To John Adams from Samuel Cooper, 8 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
...meeting held on 4 Sept. show that John Hancock received 858 votes rather than the 853...
40To John Adams from William Gordon, 19 October 1780 (Adams Papers)
...Mr. Saml. Adams being set before Mr. John Hancock. The first bill was rejected. In the...
41Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 November 1780 (Adams Papers)
On the election of John Hancock over James Bowdoin as first governor under the new constitution...
42To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 15 November 1780 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock.
43To John Adams from James Warren, 22 November 1780 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock, see Mercy Otis Warren’s letter of ...his criticism of John Hancock is that on 7 Nov...
44To John Adams from James Warren, 19 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
...his criticism of John Hancock’s gubernatorial administration and the events surrounding...
45To John Adams from Samuel Cooper, 9 February 1781 (Adams Papers)
A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency John Hancock, Esq; Governour, ... October 25, 1780....
...; the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780; John Hancock’s speech upon taking office as...
47To John Adams from Philippe André Joseph de Létombe, 26 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
On 25 Oct. Gov. John Hancock officially recognized Létombe’s commission as French consul general....
48To John Adams from Samuel Adams, 18 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
Gov. John Hancock.
49To John Adams from William Gordon, 7 September 1782 (Adams Papers)
John Hancock.
50Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 26 September 1782 (Adams Papers)
, Harvard 1762, a partisan of John Hancock (“a certain Great Man”), whose “Rival”...