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First Signer of the Declaration of Independence (Massachusetts); Revolutionary leader; Massachusetts Governor. Document Signed while the Governor of Massachusetts (signature cancelled), oblong narrow 8vo, Boston, April 9, 1793. Promissory note, in the year of his death, in favor of MOSES GILL (later Lieutenant Governor who acted as Governor after the Governor Increase Sumner), written by Gill with his signature in the text and also endorsed by him on the verso. Hancock's signature is heavily cancelled in ink but still discernable; the paper is otherwise fine.