In a message dated 08/02/2001 5:06:16 PM Central Daylight Time, billf2k@yahoo.com writes: > Hi All, > I again need your help. > Back on December 11, 2000, Julia Wood sent an e-mail to the list > explaining why The John Hancock had no descendents. > Would someone please send me a copy of that e-mail. > Thank you so much, best wishes > Bill Felknor Bill, I don't know if anyone sent it to you, but here it is. Sorry, just getting to the mail. Julia .................... =========================================================================Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:07:10 ESTFrom: <A HREF="mailto:JULIAFWOOD@aol.com"><JULIAFWOOD@aol.com></A>To: HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.comMessage-ID: < 93.4292652.2766479e@aol.com>Subject: [HANCOCK-L] Re: JOHN HANCOCK, THE SIGNERContent-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"Content-Disposition: InlineThis is from Arvil, Re, the John Hancock family.In a message dated 11/14/2000 5:05:36 PM Central Standard Time, ArvilH writes: > > This is information in answer to questions from people who have been told > that they descend from John Hancock, the Signer of the Declaration of > Independence. > > The Reverend Frederick Wallace Pyne has published a very extensive > series of volumes titled "Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of > Independence." Volume 1, The New England States, was published by Picton > Press in 1997. Volume 6, Virginia, was just printed in March 2000. The > biography for John Hancock, which appears in Volume 1, opposite his > picture, is quite brief and reads as follows: > 4: John Hancock > "Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes." > James M. Barrie > > John Hancock has perhaps the most famous signature on the Declaration > of Independence. It is located directly under the last line of text in the > center of the document in a very large, quite neat, elite, and elaborate > hand. This signature has come to be used as an expression for signing any > document - sign your "John Hancock." He was one of the five members of the > Massachusetts Delegation, but because he was elected presiding officer > (president of the Continental Congress) he did not sit with the Delegation > and his signature was thus not included with the other Massachusetts > Delegates. > John Hancock was the son of The Rev. John Hancock and Mary Hawkes. > Although his father died when the boy was only seven, young Hancock had a > good education at the insistence of his childless Uncle Thomas Hancock. He > graduated from Harvard College in 1754 at the age of 17. Upon his uncle's > death in 1764 , John Hancock inherited an extensive mercantile business > which he managed and further expanded, becoming quite wealthy. He was > elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1766 and thus became associated > with many of those in the Revolutionary Party. > John Hancock was nearly captured by a British scouting party near > Lexington on the night of 18 April 1775, but managed to escape just in the > nick of time and shortly thereafter was in Philadelphia for the opening of > the Second Continental Congress. He was elected President of the Congress, > and re-elected the following year, thus seating him in the important Chair > during the crucial year of 1776! Toward the end of the War of the > Revolution, he found more interest in local Massachusetts politics, where, > in 1780 he was elected the first Governor of the State. He served a total > of nine terms as Governor, and presided at the State Convention to ratify > the Federal Constitution in 1788. > > First Generation > > 1. John Hancock was born 12 Jan 1736/7 in Braintree (now Quincy), MA. He > married Dorothy Quincy in Fairfield, CT on 28 Aug 1775. She was born in > Boston, MA on 10 May 1747, and died in Boston, MA on 3 Feb 1830. He died in > Braintree, MA on 8 Oct 1793. > It can be seen below that there are no descendants of Signer of the > Declaration John Hancock. > Readers are reminded that John Hancock lost his father when he was > quite young and was raised by his uncle Thomas Hancock. There were several > other Hancock children in the area, cousins of John Hancock and children of > Thomas Hancock's other brothers. Thus there were other Hancock relatives of > the period of the Revolution in the same vicinity, but none of them are > descendants of John the Signer! > While it is possible that one may be "related" to one of these other > Hancocks; it is not possible that one is a descendant of John Hancock. > > Children: > 2 i Lydia Hancock, b. most probably in Philadelphia, in the fall > of 1776, a short time before Congress fled to Baltimore in late 1776 (Oct) > 1776; d. in Aug 1777. > 3 ii John George Washington Hancock, b. 21 May 1778; d. 27 Jan > 1787, from a fall while trying to use some new ice skates. > > I hope this will help you to answer any future questions about > descendants of John the Signer. > > Regards, > Arvil
Whose children are the ones listed near the end of the message?