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Partial document signed “John Hancock” as Governor of Massachusetts, May 14, 1792, although not named it was addressed to Abel Wilder, a leading politician and citizen born in Leominster, Massachusetts (he died later in 1792 while serving as State Senator and Presidential Elector for Worcester County). Wilder was a Captain of a company of approximately 50 “Minute Men” who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775.
The document is missing the top portion which would have listed Hancock’s title as Governor and been adorned with the Seal. The partially printed section remains and states:
[You being chosen Senator by a majority] of voters in the County of Worcester for this Commonwealth, are hereby in the name of said Commonwealth of Massachusetts summoned to attend and assist at a General Court to be begun and holden at the State House in Boston on Wednesday the thirtieth of the present May at nine o’clock A.M. You will therefore give your attendance, that there may be a due convention of Senators on the said day.
Given pursuant to the Constitution of the Government of the Commonwealth aforesaid, at the Council Chamber in Boston the fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, and in the sixteenth year of the independence of the United States of America.
The document is countersigned by John Avery as Secretary.
The original envelope addressed to Wilder is included - this might be in Hancock’s own hand but we are not certain of that. The top right is franked “Public Service”.
Partial document signed “John Hancock” as Governor of Massachusetts, May 14, 1792, although not named it was addressed to Abel Wilder, a leading politician and citizen born in Leominster, Massachusetts (he died later in 1792 while serving as State Senator and Presidential Elector for Worcester County). Wilder was a Captain of a company of approximately 50 “Minute Men” who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775.
The document is missing the top portion which would have listed Hancock’s title as Governor and been adorned with the Seal. The partially printed section remains and states:
[You being chosen Senator by a majority] of voters in the County of Worcester for this Commonwealth, are hereby in the name of said Commonwealth of Massachusetts summoned to attend and assist at a General Court to be begun and holden at the State House in Boston on Wednesday the thirtieth of the present May at nine o’clock A.M. You will therefore give your attendance, that there may be a due convention of Senators on the said day.
Given pursuant to the Constitution of the Government of the Commonwealth aforesaid, at the Council Chamber in Boston the fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, and in the sixteenth year of the independence of the United States of America.
The document is countersigned by John Avery as Secretary.
The original envelope addressed to Wilder is included - this might be in Hancock’s own hand but we are not certain of that. The top right is franked “Public Service”.