John George Washington 'Johnny' Hancock

John "Johnny" George Washington Hancock, son of John Hancock and Dorothy Quincy, was b. Mar. 8, 1778 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; he was baptized at the Brattle Square Church on May 24, 1778. He died on Jan. 27,1787 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts from a head injury while skating on a pond in Milton, Massachusetts. He is buried at Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

John was mortally wounded in the head when he fell upon the ice while skating on a pond in Milton, Massachusetts.

• "This amiable child gave every indication of future eminence; and while his sweetness of temper, his strength of memory, and brilliancy of genius, led his parents to hope, that he would be not only the staff of their age, but eminently useful in the world!—Their hopes are suddenly blasted, and they feel the deepest affliction:
• Why falls the budding flower? Why dies the youth?
• Presumptuous reason crys. 'Tis not for us
• To search the ends of fate nor fault its means;
• Religion answers and our breasts are calmed." - Written by Samuel Adams Dorr, published in the American Herald, January, 1787.
• Inscription:
• No. 16 TOMB OF HANCOCK

Note: Grave marker is no longer there. The John Hancock memorial shaft is located where the Hancock family tomb is.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 4 2017, 4:50:06 UTC