Box 14

Contains an invoice of bread shipped by Blanchard & Hancock, dated 1766.

Contains accounts current of John Hancock with merchants and tradesmen, including Ichabod Jones, John Matchett, Scott & Gill, and Joshua Winslow (1726-1801), dated January-May 1774. Charges include labor on his ships and wharf, flour, hardware, and hemp, as well as Winslow's services as an agent at Chignecto, Nova Scotia.

Contains accounts current of John Hancock with merchants and tradesmen, including Silvanus Tinker, Edward Grow, and Richard Surcomb, for trade and purchase of head matter, silk, pork, and other commodities, dated June-November 1774.

Contains accounts current of John Hancock with merchants and tradesmen, including Edward Jones, Thomas Waterman, and Jacob Sheafe, for rigging ships, purchase and trade of tar, candles, tea, and fish, dated 1776-1779.

Contains accounts current of John Hancock with merchants and tradesmen, including William Dinsdell, Daniel Sargent, and Thomas Legate, for labor, and trade and purchase of fabrics, potash, and other commodities, as well as charges for mercantile voyages, dated 1782-1783.

Contains accounts current of John Hancock with merchants and tradesmen, including Norton Brailsford, Nathaniel Balch (1735-1808), and lawyer Asa Spalding, for services like mending and glazing lanterns and drafting writs and bonds, and purchase of hats, cloth, and hardware, dated 1787-1792. There is also an account with Jonathan Bowman, his second cousin, for his share in the board of Dinah, a freed Hancock slave, and legal fees.

Contains bills to John Hancock for the purchase, gauging and full binding, and shipment of whale oil and bone, dated 1765-1768.

Contains bills to John Hancock for the purchase, gauging and full binding, and shipment of whale oil and bone, dated 1769.

Contains bills to John Hancock for the purchase, gauging and full binding, and shipment of whale oil and bone, dated 1770.

Contains bills to John Hancock for the purchase, gauging and full binding, and shipment of whale oil and bone, dated 1772-1783.

Contains accounts of expenses of John Hancock related to shipping whale oil to Great Britain, dated 1764-1767.

Contains accounts of expenses of John Hancock related to shipping whale oil to Great Britain, dated 1768-1771.

Contains accounts of expenses of John Hancock related to shipping whale oil to Great Britain, dated 1772-1776.

Contains bills for freighting goods like wine and flour, and wharfage bills to John Hancock, dated 1769-1783.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated 1765-1766. Charges include portage, pilotage, trucking cargo, and overhauling and rigging ships.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated January-June 1767. Charges include supplies, portage, customs duties, and cleaning and repairing ships.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated July 1767 to July 1768. Charges include portage, supplies, customs duties, iron work, and rigging ships.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated August-December 1768. Charges include labor on ships, portage, rigging ships, iron work, and supplies.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated January-May 1769. Charges include hardware, rigging ships, and block work.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated July 1769 to January 1770. Charges include block work, rigging ships, portage, and craftsmanship such as carving a six-foot figurehead for a vessel.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated May-December 1770. Charges include portage, iron work, supplies, and building cabins.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated January-June 1771. Charges include iron work, block work, wharfage, supplies, and making sails.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated August-December 1771. Charges include mending sails, portage, and wharfage of cannons.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated January-September 1772. Charges include wharfage and docking, work done on ships, including labor by John Matchett's slaves, iron work, and portage. There is an invoice from shipwright Moses Tyler for building the ship Hayley.

Contains bills and accounts of John Hancock related to mercantile voyages, dated October-December 1772. Charges include iron work, repairs, making sails, wharfage, and docking.