HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer (Massachusetts). Document signed ("John Hancock"), countersigned by several other offficials, Boston, 5 January 1773. 1 page, oblong, 145 x 190 mm. (5 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.), neatly matted with a portrait. PAYING THE PASSAGE FOR AN INDIGENT FAMILY. In the upper portion, dated 1 November 1773, receipt is acknowledged of funds "for ye passage of William Ewen & his Wife and two children to Philadelphia"; beneath, Hancock and other official certify that "the above named persons were strangers in the almshouse on the province account," and the payment "is according to arrangement."