Folder 4

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 8 documents (1767-1781), document fragments, and 2 ledgers belonging to members of the Hancock family of Massachusetts. Received from the estate of Mary Grew via USC-Aiken, February 2007, as contents found within a desk belonging to John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence, President of the Second Continental Congress and Governor of Massachusetts (1780-1785).Ebenezer Hancock (1741- 1819), John Hancock’s younger brother, operated a general goods store in Boston in...