John Hancock

• Born: 10 Oct 1732, Boston MA
• Marriage: Martha Sparhawk on 20 Nov 1760 in Massachusetts
• Died: 24 Sep 1784, Oxford MD

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark this is a tentative attribution by Winterthur; Kane only attributes the surname mark above, found on his few surviving pieces of hollowware, to Hancock. This mark is on a teaspoon from his Oxford MD era.

• Alternate Mark another tentatively attributed mark found on a c 1760 spoon of Boston origin.

• He worked from 1760 to 1770 as a silversmith in Boston MA ³⁰

• He worked from about 1770 to 1774 as a silversmith in Providence RI ¹⁰

• He worked from about Jul 1774 to 1784 as a silversmith in Oxford MD ¹⁰

• Sugar tongs, c 1780
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹⁰
  l: 5 11/16"
  wt: 1 oz, 2 1/2 dwt
  Engraved "NRG" for Nathaniel and Rebecca Gorham

John married Martha Sparhawk on 20 Nov 1760 in Massachusetts. (Martha Sparhawk was born on 2 Jan 1731 in Cambridge MA.)