Ebenezer Hancock

  • American

Ebenezer Hancock was a bricklayer, a Deputy Paymaster-General in the Continental Army and a younger brother of John Hancock, the patriot. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1776/06/12 Ebenezer Hancock as appointed Deputy Paymaster-General for the Eastern Department of the Army. Life
1777/00/00 Continental Army soldiers pickup their pay from Ebenezer Hancock at Capen's silk and dry goods store. Work Union Oyster House Boston
1778/08/00 A loan of 2 million silver crowns from Louis XVI of France for the financing of the Army, negotiated in Paris by Benjamin Franklin, are carried from d'Estaing's war vessels and left in care of paymaster Gen Hancock. Work Ebenezer Hancock House Boston Battle of Saratoga
1785/08/24 John Hancock signs ownership of a "brick tenement" to his brother Ebenezer. Owner Ebenezer Hancock House Boston
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