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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

BY FRANCIS H. LINCOLN.

Old Ship Meeting House

FIRST PARISH.

   The first church in Hingham was formed in September, 1635.   Rev. Peter Hobart, of Hingham, in Norfolk, England, came to Charlestown in June, 1635.   Mr. Hobart was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1625.   He declined the invitations of several settlements to become their pastor, preferring to join that at Bare Cove, where many of his fellow-townsmen in the old country were already established.   On the second of September, 1635, the name of Bare Cove was changed to Hingham; and on the eighteenth of the same month Mr. Hobart and twenty-nine others drew for house-lots.   Here Mr. Hobart gathered the church which was the twelfth in order of time in Massachusetts proper.

 

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