John Hancock's Boston home hits market after 50 years with secret price tag

In the oldest neighborhoods of Boston, where the cobblestones still carry the memory of revolution, a 1767 Georgian townhouse is quietly seeking its next keeper. The Ebenezer Hancock House — the last surviving property in the city with a direct tie to Founding Father John Hancock — has come to market for the first time in fifty years, its asking price withheld from all but the most serious of suitors. That a building said to have sheltered two million French silver crowns for Continental Army troops has spent recent decades as a discreet law office speaks to how history can persist in plain si