HANCOCK, John (1737-1793). Document signed (''John Hancock'') as Boston Selectman and by six others including Timothy NEWELL (c. 1718-1799), Boston, 9 July 1773.

HANCOCK, John (1737-1793). Document signed ("John Hancock") as Boston Selectman and by six others including Timothy NEWELL (c. 1718-1799), Boston, 9 July 1773.

Three pages, 198 x 161mm, bifolium (light toning at folds, spine fold partly separated, top and bottom margin affixed to mat with archival tape). Housed in a mat bearing an engraved portrait of Hancock.

John Hancock allows a Boston ship captain's widow to "Retail Rum and other distilled Spirits." Hancock and his fellow selectmen approve the petition of Abigail Dunn, who was also charged with caring for "an Aged Mother & two young Children" with no means of support save for "a Shop in Back Street below Mr. Edward's House to depend upon." The granting of a license would "prevent her Family from being a burden on the Community."

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