Auction Date:2010 Sep 15 @ 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
Revolutionary War dated hand-addressed full free frank, measuring 8.5 x 7.5, with the address panel measuring 5.25 x 3.25, addressed by Hancock to “To Joseph Warren Esq. & the Gentlemen of the Committee of Safety & C. at Cambridge.” Franked in the left side of the address panel, “John Hancock.” Frank is also docketed in the top left, presumably by Warren’s secretary, “The Honl. John Hancock, Letter April 26, 1775.” In very good condition, with central vertical fold to address panel, expected folds to outer portions, and scattered light toning and soiling, some light paper loss to edges and along folds, and slight mounting remnants to reverse.
At the time, the Revolutionary War was barely a week old and Hancock was a wanted man. Following the battles of Lexington and Concord, he was on his way from Boston to Philadelphia, along with Samuel Adams, to attend the Continental Congress—where he would preside over the body to proclaim the most defiant act in American history—when he addressed this free frank for a message to Joseph Warren. Hancock and Adams had arrived in Worcester, Massachusetts, on April 24, 1775, but were detained two days while waiting for the arrival of colleagues John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and Thomas Cushing, delegates from Massachusetts. Before departing Worcester, Hancock wrote Warren and the members of the Committee of Safety at Cambridge. A victim of the war, Warren was killed at Bunker Hill just seven weeks later.
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