The Colonial Society of Massachusetts selected Jeffrey Griffith to curate, transcribe, and publish letters authored and received by John Hancock. In both printed and digital form, over 4,000 letters from 1754-1793 have been transcribed, annotated, and indexed, with new discoveries regularly increasing the amount of material included and made available to researchers.
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