HANCOCK, John. Printed document signed ("John Hancock” with characteristic flourish), as Governor of Massachusetts, Countersigned by John Avery, Boston, 27 January 1781. 1 page, 4to., with related document signed by Avery and others, neatly affixed. Governor Hancock directs Henry Gardner, the State Treasurer, “You are, by and with the Advice and Consent of Council, ordered and directed to pay unto Jesse Parker, private in Col. Nixon’s Regmt.” 368 pounds, 3s. 4p.“to make good the Depreciation of his wages...” Parker saw service with a distinguished unit: Colonel John Nixon was captain of a militia unit that fought at Lexington (19 April 1776); then captain of the 2nd Massachusetts regiment (May to December 1775) and was wounded at Bunker Hill.