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The Columbia Democrat
Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
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A grandson of patriot and statesman Governor Hancock was brought before the Boston Police Court on Thursday as a common drunkard, his appearance ragged and his once-bright prospects ruined by intemperance, as reported by The Times.
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A grandson of the patriot and statesman, Governor Hancock, was brought up to the Boston Police Court on Thursday, as a common drunkard. He had on a tattered frock, out at the elbows, and rusty with age, coarse trowsers, dirty and ragged, old pumps, so broken that his unwashed stockings were seen through them, and without vest or cravat. The Times says: "His prospects once were brighter than those of any other young man in town, but now the vital intemperance, has fastened upon him, and his blood is poisoned with its sting. His parents would have done any thing for him, being abundantly able, but now it is too late. His name blots the police records, and there his history is in part written."
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Boston
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Thursday
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brought up as a common drunkard; name blots the police records
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A grandson of the patriot and statesman, Governor Hancock, was brought up to the Boston Police Court on Thursday, as a common drunkard. He had on a tattered frock, out at the elbows, and rusty with age, coarse trowsers, dirty and ragged, old pumps, so broken that his unwashed stockings were seen through them, and without vest or cravat. His prospects once were brighter than those of any other young man in town, but now intemperance has fastened upon him, and his blood is poisoned with its sting. His parents would have done anything for him, being abundantly able, but now it is too late.