John Hancock: Merchant King And American Patriot

Hancock’s first big accomplishment here in America came when John Adams, with the support of Washington, elected John Hancock for presidency. He elected him because of his personal sacrifices and because of his years of experience as moderator at Boston town meetings, in Massachusetts House of Representatives, and latter, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress.

Congress elected John Hancock unanimously; John called his election as the president of Congress “the greatest honor of his life”. He was the perfect president for congress at this time because he had some appeal to all factions but favoritism for none. He would try to understand everyone’s point of view and he appealed to all. His experience as moderator and legislator appealed to moderates. His wealth, education, and business position appealed to conservatives. Hancock’s defiance of British authority in Bos

During this time period John Hancock had two goals. His first goal was to marry his girlfriend Dolly, because he was lonely and sick of living by himself. Second was to get John Adams completely out of the political picture, regionally and nationally. After congress recessed in August, Hancock left to go to Fairfield, Connecticut, to marry Dorothy. They agreed on an August 28th wedding day. On August 11th Hancock went to Cambridge to deliver 500,000 payrolls to Washington.

In early April, Dolly had informed John that she was pregnant. The pregnancy caused them to move to their burr home in Connecticut, and bring Aunt Lydia to Philadelphia to help them both out and to manage the home. John and Dolly were very close to Aunt Lydia; she was like a mother to them both and had always been there for them. There was too much going on with his congressional duties for John to be able to leave, so they decided to stay. On April 15th John Hancock’s 62 year-old aunt suffered a stroke, and ten days later, on April 25th, she passed away. This was a sad and devastating time, not only for John but for Dolly as well. John inherited 4000 dollars in her will, along with some property. Not everything went to John, a brick home to be used as a parsonage was donated to the Brattle square church, and all of her slaves were released and given a good sum of money each, upon John’s aunts request. During Dolly’s pregnancy her older, unmarried sister came and took care of their house. There was a lot on John Hancock’s shoulders: he was about to become one of the founding fathers of this great country.

ton appealed to the radicals. Thus, he appealed to all in congress for those reasons. Also, because of his vast experience directing a large organization, namely the House of Hancock.

As Cushing was winning the hearts of the people of Massachusetts, Hancock was winning the minds of the congressional moderates. Congress eventually got sick of Adams and the New England radicals; they felt as if he was fighting a war of words, rather than a fight for independence. Hancock wanted to isolate the New England radicals, so when congress met he acted as president and elected a friend of Washington to be the new chairmen. Ward was gone and in came Virginian Benjamin Harrison, which did not make the New England delegates happy at all. While Washington and his men evacuated Boston many looters did damage to mansions, including Hancock’s who had 4,732 dollars in damages. This was good news, though, considering most houses where b

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