Addresses At the Banquet of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
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29, 1760: "Sunday last the Prince of Wales was proclaimed King thro' ye city with pomp and joy. His coronation, I am told, will not be till April ; that I can't yet determine whether I shall stay to see it, but rather think I shall, as it is the grandest thing 1 shall ever meet with." He did remain, and later was presented at court, and it is said, though on what authority I know not, that the young monarch, George III., treated the handsome, rich, young American with great consideration, and p...resented him with a gold snuff-box. How little could either have dreamed that fifteen years later John Hancock would be President of that Congress which should declare the independence of the American Col- onies, or that the complaisant monarch would set a price on the head of the courteous American. Hancock returned to Boston in 1761, and shortly before leaving Lon- don, wrote: "I shall with satisfaction bid adieu to this grand place, with all its pleasurable enjoyments and tempting scenes, for more substantial pleasures, which I promise myself in the enjoyment of my friends in America." 46 On the first of January, 1763, his uncle took him into the firm, and •thus announces the fact to their London correspondents : "Gentn.
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