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reet, fronting the Common. It was built by his uncle, Thomas Hancock. In the autumn of 1789 President Washington made a gland States. He arrived at Boston on Saturday, Oct. 24. Hancock, who was then governor, had invited the President to lodge, which the latter declined. After Washington's arrival, Hancock sent him an invitation to come and dine with him and his f governor would call upon him before the dinner-hour. But Hancock had conceived the notion that the governor of a State, wit see the governor except at my lodgings. That message led Hancock to visit the President next day, and repeat in person the lly. Arraignment of Great Britain. As before stated, Hancock and Samuel Adams were both elected members of the Provinciongress at Concord early in 1774. On March 5 of that year Hancock delivered the following oration in Boston, which was the p of Lexington, was undertaken to secure the arrest of both Hancock and Samuel Adams: Men, Brethren, Fathers, and Fellow-