Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MASSACHUSETTS.) Pierpont, Robert and Ann. Long Wharf deed issued to John Hancock before the Revolution. Manuscript Document Signed. 4 pages, 13 x 8 inches, including docketing on final blank; separations at some folds. Boston, 20 August 1767
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In this deed, the Pierponts grant Hancock "all that certain warehouse with the wharfe whereon it stands . . . being the sixteenth lot in the first division of the long wharfe or pier commonly called Boston Pier at the lower end of King Street," as well as another wharf lot and a nearby parcel of land, all for the sum of £500. It is signed by both Pierponts, as well as John Hill (twice, as witness and Justice of the Peace), witness James Blake, and registrar Ezekiel Goldthwait.
Hancock was a successful young merchant at this point, thirty years old, a member of colony's House of Representatives and already vocal in opposition to the Stamp Act. Shortly after this deed was executed (and quite near the wharf) came the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Hancock's Long Wharf counting house still stands today, now known as the Gardiner Building.