Plate
This pink and white transfer-printed earthenware plate features a view of the Hancock family mansion, a famous colonial structure on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The two-storey granite-facaded structure was erected by Boston merchant Thomas Hancock (1703–1764) in 1737, the year his nephew and later occupant of the mansion, John Hancock (1737–1793), was born. During the American Revolutionary War the mansion was used as military headquarters during the Charlestown engagement of 1775 and for sheltering wounded soldiers during the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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