Ancestry of
John Hancock

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Nathaniel Hancock Jr.

View famous kin of Nathaniel Hancock

• • Great-grandfather of John Hancock — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Hancock 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Dec 1638/1639 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Apr 1719 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Prentice
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Mar 1663/1664 
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  John Hancock (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Elizabeth Hancock

• Additional marriages for Nathaniel Hancock Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Green
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Dec 1699
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Nathaniel Hancock Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 323, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Hancock.
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 99.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 140.
  • ⁴ Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 1, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1901), 285.