When I went back to live with my uncle after college, he had a very powerful place in politics. He advised the royal Governor of Massachusetts. Now that he was doing that he didn't have a lot of time to care to his merchant work so he asked me to help him. I told him I would do it and he taught me all about importing and exporting goods. I learned about the shops and warehouses and I visited them. I also got to see the ships and talk to a couple of ship captains owned by my family. In 1759 I was sent by my uncle on my first actual business trip to London. I stayed for a year making new contracts with many merchants and a few bankers and then I came back in 1761. In 1763 on January 1st my uncle made me his full time partner and we ran our business together for a while until he passed away in 1764 August 1st unexpectedly.

I went to Harvard College in 1750 when I was 13 years old. I studied Latin, Greek and philosophy which i already knew a lot about and i also studied Hebrew. They did not have any classes that taught you about history and politics so I took my own time to read Greek and Roman history. I graduated in 1754 and went to live back with my uncle.

When I moved in with my uncle. I enrolled in The Latin School where I studied Latin, Greek, history, philosophy, and theology. I learned all I had to learn there in 5 years. I also went to "The Writing School" 1hr a day where he learned, reading, writing, arithmetic, and spelling.

In 1744 John Hancock's Father died and his family moved to Lexington with his grandfather. When he was 8 in 1745 he then moved to his uncle Thomas Hancock's home, a rich merchant in Boston. He was married to a woman named Lydia and he owned a store, ships and his home on beacon hill.

The Death of John Hancock

John Hancock died Oct 8Th 1793. Even though he was young and had been sick for a while they found he had just died naturally. He was buried in Boston and the cemetery he's in also has fellow Revolutionary War leaders, Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.

Let us convince our enemies that, as we are entered into the present contest for the defense of our liberties, so we are resolved, with the firmest reliance on heaven for the justice of our cause, never to relinquish it, but rather to perish in the ruins of it. If we do remain firm…and are determined, at all hazards, that we will be free – I am persuaded under the gracious smiles of Providence, assisted by our own most strenuous endeavors, we shall finally succeed…and thereby establish the independence, the happiness, and the glory of the United States of America."





...Some powerful words that I, John Hancock wrote in the "Declaration of Independence"

Due to the Stamp Act, all British made products were taxed.I, John Hancock then joined a group with 250 Merchants who all refused to ship these products.