Noted 18th-century signatory

Usage examples of hancock.

There was no money in his background, no Adams fortune or elegant Adams homestead like the Boston mansion of John Hancock.

Boston, Washington, out of modesty, had left the chamber, while a look of mortification, as Adams would tell the story, filled the face of John Hancock, who had hoped he would be chosen.

It was the New Englanders who held firm for independence, though two of the Massachusetts delegation, John Hancock and Robert Treat Paine, exhibited nothing like the zeal of either Samuel Adams or Elbridge Gerry.

Losing no time, Knox then set sail by pilot boat to meet the Lucretia and deliver an official welcome to Minister Adams and his lady from Governor John Hancock.

March found him trading south of Nootka at Clayoquot, named Hancock, after the governor of Massachusetts.

The divisions of Anderson and McLaws, on the right, made a determined charge upon the great force under Generals Hancock, Slocum, and others, in that quarter, and Stuart closed in on the Federal right, steadily extending his line to join on to Anderson.

There was nothing to do, however, but to fight, and General Grant hastened to form order of battle for that purpose, with General Sedgwick commanding his right, Generals Warren and Burnside his centre, and General Hancock his left, near the Brock Road.

Hancock is named commander of the Military Department of Missouri, and moves again to Kansas, where he had spent so much of the i85os.

Hancock caught the Johnnies that morning the neatest you ever saw anything in your life.

One dissemination-track simply panned the metro-Boston sky and horizons from atop the Hancock tower.

After arriving in South East Asia aboard the carrier USS Hancock in November 1965, he flew ninety-seven combat missions in his A-4 Skyhawk amd was shot down on June 17, 1966.

Hancock, who adored ceremony and show, was so delighted by the excitement, he insisted the next day that he escort them to Braintree in his coach, and that they go accompanied by cavalry.

The Onion Ring chain gets its burgers from Mercer Meats, and Mercer Meats gets a significant amount of its beef from Higgins and Hancock.

We here at Higgins and Hancock are proud to provide their supplier, Mercer Meats, with their fresh beef.

Especially since Jack Cartwright overheard them talking about Higgins and Hancock.