HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer (Massachusetts). Printed document signed ("John Hancock," with usual flourish beneath), headed (in type) Boston, April 1767. 1 page, an oblong, 57 x 102 mm. (2 1/8 x 4 in.), accomplished in manuscript, attractively printed with elaborate typographical borders and in several types. IN A CUSTOM RED MOROCCO FOLDING DISPLAY SLIPCASE with an engraved portrait, gilt-lettered text surrounding window which encloses the document, the two panels hinged to stand up for exhibition.

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HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer (Massachusetts). Printed document signed ("John Hancock," with usual flourish beneath), headed (in type) Boston, April 1767. 1 page, an oblong, 57 x 102 mm. (2 1/8 x 4 in.), accomplished in manuscript, attractively printed with elaborate typographical borders and in several types. IN A CUSTOM RED MOROCCO FOLDING DISPLAY SLIPCASE with an engraved portrait, gilt-lettered text surrounding window which encloses the document, the two panels hinged to stand up for exhibition.

A HANCOCK LOTTERY TICKET FOR THE REBUILDING OF BOSTON'S FANEUIL HALL

This ticket (No.1020) "entitles the Possessor to any Prize drawn against said Number, in a Lottery granted by an Act of the General Court of...Massachusetts-Bay, for rebuilding Faneuil Hall..." Faneuil Hall, a market and public hall built for the city of Boston by the merchant Peter Faneuil in 1740-42, was long the focus of political protest in Boston, earning the nickname "The Cradle of Liberty." By 1767, the date of the lottery, Hancock had already taken a prominent role in the American opposition to the Stamp Acts of 1765.