The town of Hingham was included in what was known as the Scituate circuit from 1807 to 1826.   From the latter year until 1828 it was included in the Weymouth Society, and in 1828 it became a separate society.   In 1807 Rev. Thomas Asbury, on the Scituate circuit, was the first Methodist minster who preached in Hingham.   He was an Englishman, said to have been a cousin of the celebrated Bishop Asbury.   He married Rachael Binney of Hull, and subsequently removed to Ohio, purchasing land on the present site of the city of Columbus.   In 1809, Moses Tower, of Hingham, married Mary Binney, of Hull, who was a member of the Methodist Church, and their house, and that of Robert Goold, were opened to Methodist meetings for many years.   Methodist ministers occasionally preached in these houses.   One of the Sabbath appointments for the Scituate circuit was Cohasset, where a house of worship was erected, and where the Methodists of Hingham worshipped until 1826, when they attended church services in Weymouth for about two years.
   The following ministers preached occasionally in Hingham before 1828, when, on the formation of a separate society, a regular pastor was stationed here: Thomas Asbury, George Pickering, John Broadhead, Joseph Snelling, Joseph A. Merrill, Benjamin F. Lambord, Stephen Baily, Edward Hyde, Aaron Lummus, Richard Emery, Bradbury Clay, B. Otheman, Orin Roberts, Benjamin Hazelton, Jotham Horton, Isaac Jennison, F. Upham, A. D. Sargent, Stephen Puffer, Benjamin Jones, Jobs Adams, Moses Sanderson, L. R. Sutherland, Samuel Norris, Jared Perkins.
   The first class of Methodists was formed in 1818, by Rev. Edward T. Taylor, of Boston (Father Taylor), and consisted of seven members, namely: Robert Goold, Mary Goold, George Lincoln, Abigail Goold Tower, Jane Goold, Mary Gould Pratt, and Isaiah Wilder.