Note 314 — Chapter I · (continued 3)

Sparks's Washington, iii. 37. For Hancock's character, see Wells's Sam. Adams, an unfavorable view. Cf. also Sanderson's Signers of the Decl. of Ind.; Loring's Hundred Boston Orators; C. W. Upham's speech in the Mass. Legislature, March 17, 1859, on the bill for preserving the Hancock House. Hancock's correspondence as president of Congress is in Force, 4th ser., v.; 5th ser., i., ii., iii.