John Hancock
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Object type: Print
Date: 1776
Artist: Unidentified Artist
Sitter: John Hancock, 12 Jan 1737 - 8 Oct 1793
Medium: Relief woodcut on paper
Dimensions: Image: 6.7 x 5.4 cm (2 5/8 x 2 1/8")
Sheet: 22.5 x 17 cm (8 7/8 x 6 11/16")
Credit line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Topics: Business and Finance
Colonial statesman
Merchants
Statesman
Government
Businessperson
Men
Signer of Declaration
Portraits
Public officers
Politics
Governors
II. FEBRUARY, hath 28 Days. 1777.
Nor nature's law with fruitless sorrow mourns, But die, O mortal man ! for thou wast born. Each changing season does its poison bring, RHEUMS chill the winter, AGUES blast the spring ; Wet, dry, cold, hot, at the appointed hour, All act subservient to the tyrant's power !
Last Quarter 1 Day, 1 Morn. | First Quar. 14 Day, 7 After New Moon 8 Day 3 Morn. | Full Moon 22 Day, 5 Morn.
    Calendar, Weather, Sun rise High Water D's D's & sets   M. D. and sets Morn. Even. place.     17 ○ 13° 17' sw 28 SE 7 6 5 0 6 29 18 0 31   2 E Puni. Vi. Mary. (Sexa. 7 5 6 56 7 19 thighs 1 44   3 ♀ Perihel. Perhaps 7 4 7 42 8 5 15 2 56   4 ○ ♂ Δ ⊖ N. V.C. 7 3 8 28 8 52 29 4 0   5 Expect 21 3 □ 7 2 9 14 9 38 knees 5 5   6 wind soon. 7 1 10 21 10 37 28 6 50   7 Very cold for several 7 0 10 50 11 16 legs 6 50   8 Qui. Yar. L. Sou. Shm 6 58 11 40 12 0 27 7 15   9 Middling tides. 6 57 11 7 13 34 feet 8 29   10 ● Per. I.C.N. Hamp. 6 55 11 56 14 23 head 9 44   11 days. 1/2 ♀ V.C. 6 54 12 54 15 21 25 10 59   12 7* S. Sou. 5h. 40m. 6 52 13 51 16 16 neck 11 59   13 I guess it will be 6 50 14 47 17 12 22 12 59   14 good staying about 6 49 15 37 18 2 arms 13 14   15 it Sund. in Lent. 6 47 16 26 19 50 19 14 24   16 Inf. C. Sou. Knight. 6 46 17 14 20 37 breasts 15 31   17 Su. C. Boston & Paul. 6 44 18 59 21 23 14 16 27   18 this time. 6 43 18 48 22 11 28 17 20   19 You may expect foul 6 41 19 34 23 57 heart 18 6   20 wether 21 8 □ 6 40 20 20 24 42 24 19 50   21 about these 21 8 □ 6 39 21 4 25 26 belly 20 55   22 2d S. Lent. ○ 8 Δ 6 38 22 49 26 11 20 21 55   23 St. Matthi. ♀ 1/2 days 6 37 23 12 27 34 rains 22 8   24 ● Ap. Su. C. N. Haven 6 36 24 59 28 23 14 23 9   25 ○ 8° 30' E (I.C. Pius. 6 35 25 44 29 6 25 24 9   26 h 6 m. then cold. 6 34 26 31 30 54 secrets 25 54   27 6 33 27 12 31 45 18 26 55   28 6 31 28 3 32 45 27 40   
All Persons who are desirous to encourage the Manufacturing of PAPER, are requested to save their old Cotton and Linen Rags, &c. For which a good Price will be given at the Paper-Mills in Milton.
The Character of a PATRIOT.
HE feels a more generous principle reigning in his breast and governing all his actions : whose soul is unbiaised by sinister motives, unaffected by the allurements of riches and honors, and blind to all the charms of pleasure and grandure : whom flattery with her syren tongue cannot fascinate, whom corruption with her powerful bait cannot lure from his duty, whom threats cannot deter nor frowns dismay ; whose love for the community is not extinguished, nay, nor even damped by the ingratitude of his countrymen, but still continues with an unabated glow. Notwithstanding all his discouragements, he still remains firmly attached to the constitution of the STATE, still invariably pursuing the good of the Whole. On this his whole attention is fix-
The Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq;
PRESIDENT of the HONOURABLE the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
ed, hither all his endeavors tend, here all his actions terminate.
View him in his most private retirement, where he is no less active than in his public conduct. Here the whole force of his understanding is exerted, and every thought directed to the glory and welfare of his Country.—When he has projected any plan for its advantage, and contemplates the various and complicated parts, all harmoniously conspiring to the production of the desired effect, his soul is filled with the most refined delight, the most permanent satisfaction: Neither Milton in painting his lovely paradise, nor the bishop of Cloyne in adjusting his immaterial scheme, no, nor Newton in discovering and establishing the grand laws of nature, felt pleasures more in intellectual, joys more sublime.