John Hancock : First to sign, first to invest in America's independence / Willard Sterne Randall.

"The Known World"
"No Pleasure Without Pain"
"Make a Stir for Us"
"We Are a Gone People"
"The Idol of the Mob"
"A Singular Dignity and Grace"
"Remove Immediately from Boston"
"A Shadow as Pale as Ashes"
"Why All This Haste?"
"Constant Application to Public Business"
"Too Precious a Keepsake"
"The Frenchmen Ate Voraciously"
"I Have Lost Many Thousands"
"A Delicate Business"
"Perhaps Restore Our Virtue"
"A Storm in the Atmosphere"
"Radically Generous and Benevolent"
"I Feel the Seeds of Mortality."