When someone asks for your John Hancock, it means they want your signature. When someone asks for your John Henry, it means they want your signature. He wrote it bigger and neater then the other signatures. It was a term coined in reference to John Hancock, however considering that most American Cowboys at that time were immigrants, Hancock became Henry.
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Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. John Hancock was the first to sign; his signature appears at the top center of the bank of signatures. Not only is his signature larger, his handwriting is significantly more ornate and ostentatious than any other on the document. John Hancock was one of five signers from Massachusetts, but his signature appears separate from his fellow statesmen because of the way he chose to sign.
It is said that the size of the signature was an intentional message from Hancock to the king. Hancock was a member of the Boston Assembly and delegate to and president of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter. John Wilson, a celebrated landscape and marine painter, died at Folkstone, aged John Thornton Kirkland, president of Harvard university, died, aged Also, John Henry.
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