let me just scribble my John Hancock on the bottom of the form
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Aside from Revere, John Hancock and Samuel Adams are there.—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 July 2025 Don’t expect to just open your checkbook, scrawl your John Hancock, and then jump behind the bar and start running the place.—Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2025 But Judge John Hancock and some of his siblings may have tried to keep enslaved families together.—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The only man to actually sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776: The president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock.—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for John Hancock
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John Hancock; from the prominence of his signature on the Declaration of Independence
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