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13. Presumably Thomas Hancock, founder of the fortune which his nephew John Hancock, of Braintree, inherited at the former's death in 1764.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
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