The circumstances which gave rise to the formation of the Third Congregational Church and Society in 1806 have already been alluded to.   This society was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature, Feb. 27, 1807.   The church was organized under the name of the Third Church in Hingham, June 16, 1807.   The meeting-house was built, upon the same lot of land on which it now stands, at the time of the formation of the society by the proprietors, who were incorporated by an Act of the Legislature under the name of the New North Meeting-House Corporation, and was dedicated June 17, 1807.   The two corporations exist the same today.
   Rev. Henry Colman, the first minister, was born in Boston, Sept. 12, 1785, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1805.   He was ordained pastor of this society June 17, 1807, and was dismissed, at his request, March 14, 1820, in the thirteenth year of his ministry.   He died in Islington, England, Aug. 17, 1849.   After leaving Hingham he opened an academy in Brookline, continuing it for a few years, when he became the pastor of the Independent Church in Salem, holding that office from Feb. 16, 1825 to Dec. 7, 1831.   He then became almost exclusively a farmer, having purchased a farm at Deerfield, Mass.   Influenced by this pursuit and commissioned by the State, he visited Eng-