lesson 49 Where did the Saying :_Originate?____________
Where does the expression "put your John Hancock here...? 1. Named after the American merchant and statesman John Hancock (1737-1793), the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. According to legend, he signed his name in a bold fashion so that George III could read it. Since then "a John Hancock is associated with a signature. A synonym for signature. 2. John Hancock's famous quote: Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as liberty, without freedom of speech. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. 3, John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, has the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence. 4. The youngest signatories of the Declaration of Independence was Edward Rutledge (age 26) and the oldest was Benjamin Franklin (age 70) 5. Out of 200 copies that were printed by John Dunlap on the night of July 4, 1776, (via Thomas...