Auction Date:2010 May 12 @ 10:00 (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
Manuscript DS, one page, 8.25 x 7.75, August 29, 1770. Hancock and five other Selectmen of Boston authorize passage of “two women & their children from Boston to Halifax per order of the Selectmen.” Signed at the conclusion by Hancock, Joseph Jackson, Samuel Pemberton, Henderson Inches, and Jonathan Mason. Document has been inlaid to a slightly larger sheet. In very good condition, with previous intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, several professional repairs to separations and paper loss, some mild toning, and light show-through from docketing along bottom.
Boston was a dangerous place to be in 1770, so it is no wonder that “two women & children” would be looking to leave. Only five months earlier, on March 5, British soldiers fired pointblank into a mob of residents, an incident recorded in history as the Boston Massacre. Following the tragedy, Hancock headed a committee demanding a removal of the British troops, telling the officer in command that there were 10,000 armed colonists prepared to march on Boston. Hancock was bluffing, and both sides knew it, but the British still agreed to the request and Hancock became a hero. Yet tensions still remained high, including the continued taxation of tea established by the otherwise repealed Townshend Acts…a matter that would later lead to the Boston Tea Party and, of course the American Revolution. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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