07/27/2026
🇺🇸 Happy 250th year of Independence! 🇺🇸
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Not in the national archives! Hardly seen before, American historical document!
Do we all know the history behind the Sons of Liberty? The ones who sparked the war with England to fight for our independence?!
This land purchase agreement is from James Sabin who was owner of “Sabin’s Tavern” where the sons of liberty first met and led the first blow in the American Revolutionary War by the colonists and was a major supporter of the American Revolution.
It is signed to John Hancock, one of the most prominent figures of the American Revolution. John Hancock served as President of the Second Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4th, 1776. He was a major supporter of the revolution both politically as well as financially. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence as well as our articles of confederation. After the revolution he was governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785 and again 1787-until his death in 1793.
The Sons of Liberty did not gather on just a single day. They first banded together on August 14, 1765 and continued to meet, protest, and organize across the American colonies for years, most notably staging the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773.
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest on December 16, 1773, where American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the ocean. The key elements were the Tea Act of 1773, the Sons of Liberty, and British taxation without representation.
This Document is from March 11th, 1773! Just months before the Boston Tea Party formed, proving that these American loving patriots and forefathers of our country were pi**ed off and in cahoots well before any of these historic events!
The document-
* Date: March 11, 1773.
* Grantor (seller)- James Sabin of Providence, Rhode Island, described as a merchant
* Grantee (buyer)- John Hancock of Boston, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
* Purchase price- Twenty pounds lawful money.
* Property- About 19 acres in Providence, referred to as part of the Abbot Farm
* Acknowledged and signed by Darius Sessions, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, a well-known colonial official
*Dated-“In the year One Thousand and Seventy Three and in the Thirteenth year of the Kings Reign”
Notice how the document reads “John Hancock of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Esquire”. The word “Esquire” is key here, as it’s how the historic John Hancock was regarded on the majority of his legal documents due to his residence, status and title at this time in history!
250 years of Independence 🇺🇸
