Person:Thomas Hancock (23)

Name	Thomas Hancock
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	1763	Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Christening^[1]	13 Dec 1767
Marriage	15 Nov 1785	Petersham, Worchester, Massachusetts, USAto Sophia Holland
Marriage	12 May 1791	Leominster, Worchester, Massachusetts, USAto Keziah Nichols
Marriage	9 Apr 1809	Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USAto Abigail Wilson
Marriage	16 Mar 1834	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USAto Rebecca Burrell
Death^[2]	20 Mar 1843	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

References

↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
387.

Chocksett Church baptism records: 1767:Dec^r 13 Children of Sam^ll. Handcock, Thomas, William.
↑ In Braintree Thomas Hancock, in Boston Recorder (Boston, Massachusetts)
Volume: XXVIII Issue: 15 Page: 59 , Thursday, April 13, 1843.

link 80 years old (in 1843 ergo born 1763) d Braintree Revolutionary Soldier; lost his sight 19 years ago in a blast; married four times;
Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, comp. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the Modern Towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the City of Quincy. (Boston, Massachusetts: Published in cooperation with the Quincy Historical Society by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983)
734, 2124.

THOMAS HANCOCK, died Mar. 20, 1843 a. 80, a Revolutionary pensioner, totally blind for past 18
or 20 yrs. from injury while blasting rocks.
Married 1st Apr.9, 1809 at Quincy, Abigail (Wilson) Booth "both of Braintree", widow of William Booth of
Randolph, born ____, died May 19, 1833 a. 81 (Ch. Rec.).
Married 2nd intention Mar. 1, 1834, Rebecca Burrell of Weymouth, born ____
His obituary is from the Quincy Patriot of Mar. 25, 1843, and in Orthodox Ch. Rec.
i. George, bapt. Oct. 24, 1813 at Braintree.