Dorothy Quincy Hancock PORTRAYED BY KIM HANLEY
Witness to the Revolution: In April 1775 Dorothy Quincy was engaged to Boston’s wealthiest merchant and Revolutionary Hero, John Hancock. On April 14th she was with her betrothed in Lexington, MA when “the Shot Heard “Round the World” was fired. Newlywed in 1776, Mrs. John Hancock was in Philadelphia serving in an unofficial role as her husband’s secretary when he made his most famous signature on the New Declaration of Independence. When the French Alliance was brokered, it was a resourseful and quick thinking Mrs. Hancock who soothed over matters in Boston in the immediate aftermath of the French Bread Riots of September 1778.
As a witness of to the revolution, it seemed Mrs. Hancock was in all the right places at all the right times to tell some of the most interesting tales of American Independence.
Kim Hanley: Bio Actor/Historian, Interpreter, Reenactor, Impersonator