by his word and example, during the Revolutionary period, encouraged his fellow-citizens to maintain the struggle for liberty.   He died in the sixty-seventh year of his age and the forty-fifth of his ministry.   He preached until the last Sabbath of his life, and was buried in Cohasset.

   It was during the ministry of Mr. Brown that Cohasset was set off from Hingham and incorporated as a town in 1770, and from that time the history of this parish ceases to be a part of the history of Hingham.

   The Third Parish, in Hingham, was set off March 25, 1745, and a meeting-house had already been erected in 1742.   It comprised the southerly portion of the town.   There was much opposition in the town to the setting off of this as a separate parish and bitter controversies arose in consequence; but by persistent efforts the inhabitants of the south part of the town at last succeeded in carrying out their wishes.

   On the church record we find: —

   "Nov. 20, 1746. The church in the south parish, in Hingham, was embodied by the rev^d Nathanael Eelles, of Scituate, and the rev^d William Smith, of Weymouth."

And the covenant to which the members assented was the following: —

   "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, apprehending ourselves called of God into a sacred fellowship with one another in the profession and practice of the holy christian religion as a particular Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, do solemnly covenant with God and with one another as follows: —
   "In the first place, We avouch the Lord this day to be our God, yielding ourselves to him to be his servants, and chusing him to be our portion forever.
   "We give up ourselves unto that God, whose name alone is Jehovah, and is the Father, and the Son, and the holy Ghost, to be his people, to