Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Partly-printed DS, signed on the reverse “Adams,” one page, 7.75 x 12.5, January 13, 1773. A writ for John Hancock to collect a debt owed to him by another man. In part: “John Hancock of Boston…in a plea of the Case for that the said Joseph I. Silvanus…being indebted to the said John in the sum of fifty six pounds, three shillings & one penny, or by the amount to this Writ…did then and there promise the said John to pay him that sum on demand, & for that the said John Hancock…has sold & delivers to the said Joseph I. Silvanus…certain Goods, Wares & merchandise other than those mentioned in the schedule.” Signed on the reverse by John Adams, “Adams,” he also adds on the front of the document at the top,“Plymouth” and “of Duxbury in our said county of Plymouth Traders.” Document also retains a partial attached receipt which incorporates the date of the Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773. In very good condition, with professional repairs along intersecting folds, several other partial separations along folds, scattered toning and soiling, and a complete separation along aforementioned receipt.
Pre-dating the Revolutionary War, this document nevertheless shows the long relationship between Adams and Hancock, who had known each other since childhood. In 1768, when British customs agents seized Hancock’s sloop, Liberty, and charged him with smuggling popular sympathy led to public demonstrations in his behalf. Hancock was successfully defended by Adams, who was able to get all of the charges dismissed. Two years after the issue discussed in this document, Adams recommended George Washington as commander in chief of the army, rather than Hancock, who had recently been name president of the Continental Congress—some historians say to Hancock’s great disappointment. Great association of two signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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