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Title: Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the Granary burial-ground
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Cemetery Dept YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Granary Burying Ground (Boston, Mass.) Epitaphs
Publisher: Boston, Municipal printing office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as one of the committee which secured the removalof the British troops after the Boston Massacre. On an anniver-sary of the same occasion he delivered a bold and glowing ad-dress which deejjly offended the government. It had tried to winhim over by intimidation and flattery, but now sought to represshim with a strong hand. Gages expedition to Concord waspartly with the jnirpose of seizing Hancock and Adams; thequarry, however, escaped. In October, 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress choseHancock its president. The next year he became president ofthe Continental Congress at Philadelphia, serving till October,1777, when he resigned and retired to Quincy. His bold signa-ture to the Declaration, especially since at first the only oneappended, bronglit him into conspicuous notice, and has sincekei)t him there. ▼ Hancock was commissioned a major-general of the IMassachu-setts Militia and in August, 1778, commanded the Massachusettstroops in the ineffective Rhode Island expedition.
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JOHN HANCOCK TOMB, GRANARY BURIAL-GROUND. 21 He presided over the State Constitutional Convention in 1780and was chosen the first governor after its adoption. He waselected five successive years, and again, after an interval of twoyears, filled the chair until his death. In the presidential elec-tion of 1789 he received four electoral votes. As Hancock left no children, he bequeathed most of his fortuneto benevolent purposes, generously remembering Harvard. Thecollege conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1792. Hedied on October 8, 1793. A headstone of notable patriotic significance, as that of afamous signer of the Declaration of Independence, is one bearingthe simple inscription : NO. 88. THE TOMB OF K. T. PAINE, 1810. Paine was born in Boston on March 11, 1731, and died thereon May 11, 1814. On graduating from Harvard in 1749, hestudied theology and in 1755 acted as army chaplain on thenorthern frontier. After a business voyage to Europe, he studiedlaw, meanwliile supporting hi

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