Hancock, John 1737-1793

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Hancock, John 1737-1793
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Paged Content
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Printed by J. Douglass M'Dougall, in Chesnut-Street.,
Description
By the Honorable John Hancock, Esquire. ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil].nSignatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ (C4 verso blank). Authorship of the oration has been attributed to Samuel Adams, to Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren, and to Samuel Cooper. See T.R. Adams, who notes "In all probability a number of Boston radicals had a hand in the work." On page [3]: "At a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, duly assembled at Faneuil-hall... on Saturday the fifth of March, Anno. Dom.1774... William Cooper, town clerk."Libraries own 4 copies the other 3 were printed : 1 in New Port
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