John Hancock
Merchant and former President of the Continental CongressWikipedia
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Nov 1, 2026
Joe LexHOST
Mercer was now a general in the Continental Army, not just a colonel in Virginia forces.
Joe LexHOST
John Hancock sent his commission the next day with orders to join Washington in New York and stop in Philadelphia if he traveled that way.
Joe LexHOST
The letter didn't reach him until June 14th, while part of his regiment was serving against Lord Dunmore at Gwyn's Island.
Joe LexHOST
By then, Dunmore had abandoned Williamsburg, declared martial law, and offered freedom to enslaved people held by rebels if they escaped and served the crown.
Bill LyleGUEST
But what a lot of people don't know is who the first governor was of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bill LyleGUEST
And that was John Hancock.
Bill LyleGUEST
We just celebrated America 250 and we all reread the Declaration of Independence.
Bill LyleGUEST
And there in six square inches of text right there, the largest signature was John Hancock.
Bill LyleGUEST
And you look at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence where it says, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
Bill LyleGUEST
And that they are endowed by their creator.
Bill LyleGUEST
That's a capital C, capital C, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
Bill LyleGUEST
And the first of those inalienable rights was the right to life.
DennisHOST
And regrettably, you probably need to keep your powder dry.
Douglas V. GibbsHOST
Well, Johnny Tremaine interacted in the movie and in the book with, you know, people like we mentioned some of the names earlier, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, James Otis, Dr. Joseph Warren.
Douglas V. GibbsHOST
But the reason why I didn't know the name and I didn't remember this Disney thing is because Johnny Tremaine is a completely fictional character, though.
Douglas V. GibbsHOST
Yeah.
speaker_9NARRATOR
Following behind are James Wilson and John Morton, two other Pennsylvanians who are strong supporters for independence.
speaker_9NARRATOR
And here comes John Hancock, the energetic president of the Congress.
speaker_9NARRATOR
King George of England has put a price on his head.
speaker_9NARRATOR
He'll hang if he's caught.
John PadfieldGUEST
And I have read so much about history.
John PadfieldGUEST
When you had Samuel Adams, who went on to found the Sons of Liberty, Paul Revere, John Hancock.
John PadfieldGUEST
Right.
John PadfieldGUEST
These men who met in pubs and had discussions and thinking about, boy, if flock existed back in the 1700s, we'd all be sipping noon tea today.
Lily AlleyHOST
Founded in, ready for this, 1660.
Lily AlleyHOST
The granary is home to many famous passed on folks, such as Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere.
Lily AlleyHOST
Now, if you take a photograph there, okay, it's one of the best places to take photographs because people, even the least experienced photographer will get orbs or unexplained figures.
Lily AlleyHOST
As I used to tell people, go in there and who's ever with you, take a picture of them by a stone or something.
Perry AtkinsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Signed under the Declaration
Bradlee DeanHOST
of Independence, John Hancock rightly stated, resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual.
Bradlee DeanHOST
Continue steadfast and with the proper sense of your dependence on God.
Bradlee DeanHOST
Nobly defend those rights which heaven gave and no man ought to take from us.
David BartonHOST
Rick, I'm not sure either, but just for context, Sons of Liberty, we're back to about 1765, 1770, that period leading up to the American War for Independence.
David BartonHOST
And we're talking about leaders like Sam Adams and John Adams and John Hancock and Paul Revere and James Otis and all these great iconic kind of Massachusetts founding father leaders.
David BartonHOST
So I recall the series.
David BartonHOST
What did an HBO series called? You remember, Rick? Was it HBO?
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
He was an important figure in 1770s Boston and charged with revolutionary spirit.
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
Dr. Warren caught word that the regulars, what the colonists called the British forces representing the crown, are coming to seize arms in Concord and capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two important rebel leaders who were staying in Lexington for the provincial congress.
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
He sends express riders Paul Revere and William Dawes to alert Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were staying with their family, Reverend Jonas Clark, Lexington's minister, and his wife, John Hancock's cousin, Lucy Bowes Clark.
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
It's about now when Joseph Warren goes into the Old North Church to send out the signal.
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
If the regulars were coming by land, one lantern.
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
Noise? You'll have noise enough before long.
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
The regulars are out, Revere says, yelling from the rooftops.
Sabrina BhattacharjyaGUEST
John Hancock hears and invites him inside to chat.
Bradlee DeanHOST
A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.
Bradlee DeanHOST
No free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." Signer of the Declaration of Independence John Hancock rightly stated, "Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual.
Bradlee DeanHOST
Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave and no man ought to take from us." Okay, welcome back again to the Sons of Liberty.
Bradlee DeanHOST
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