Lydia Henchman Hancock
(1776-1777)
BIRTH
1776
PLACE
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
DEATH
1777
PLACE
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America
FAMILY
CHILDREN
John Hancock
(1737-1793)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lydia Henchman Hancock (1776–1777) was the infant daughter of John Hancock and Dorothy Quincy. Named for her father’s aunt, she died before her first birthday. A small watercolour attributed to Charles Willson Peale preserves her likeness at the RISD Museum, paired in a locket with a portrait of her younger brother John. Later catalogs confused the child with her great-aunt of the same name. The miniature was probably a memorial portrait; accounts differ on her exact dates.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Lydia Henchman Hancock’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Lydia Henchman Hancock is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Lydia Henchman Hancock died in 1777, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America. Lydia Henchman Hancock was the infant daughter of John Hancock and Dorothy Quincy. Named for her father’s aunt, she died before her first birthday. A small watercolour attributed to Charles Willson Peale preserves her likeness at the RISD Museum, paired in a locket with a portrait of her younger brother John. Later catalogs confused the child with her great-aunt of the same name. The miniature was probably a memorial portrait; accounts differ on her exact dates. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Granary Burying Ground
Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA
GRAVE
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