Lot 48
Hancock, John. Partly-printed Document Signed "John Hancock" twice in the text, 4½ x 9 in., Boston, Oct. 17, 1761. Hancock fills out a Bill of Lading for the ship "Triton," with Thomas Robson as Master. Hancock names himself as the shipper of the cargo bound for London, which includes, "Six Hundred & Twenty Eight Cask White Oil, Twenty two Thousand & Fifty seven Gallons, & Fifty five Cask Brown Oil…Fifty bundles Whale Bone in equal thirds with Barnards & Harrison Holger & Gardner & John Hancock, being mark’d and number’d as in the Margin, and are to be deliver’d in the like good Order, and well Condition’d, at the aforesaid Port of London (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) unto Messrs. Harrison & Barnard or to their Assigns, he or they paying Freight for the said Goods Forty five shillgs Sterlg pr Ton for Oil, & Forty shillings pr Ton for Bone with Primage and Average accustom’d….And so God send the good Ship to her desir'd Port in Safety. Amen…." The master of the ship signs at bottom. Age toning, else fine.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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