The peace had left John Hancock with little to complain about. As governor of Massachusetts, he reveled in his title, his entertainments, his independence from King George and from Samuel Adams. Hancock was now the first citizen of Massachusetts; whenever he appeared in public, admirers ran beside his carriage to cheer, gape at his mink coat and scramble for the coins he tossed out to them. As the governor’s wife, Dorothy Quincy Hancock served so many rich sauces to visiting French nobility that she instructed her servants to milk every cow on the Boston Common, no matter who owned it. Before the war’s end, Dolly Hancock had completed her husband’s happiness by giving him a son; Hancock used his son’s birth to demonstrate that he held no grudge from the day John Adams had risen in Philadelphia and nominated a commander in chief. He named the new heir John George Washington Hancock.