Before the organization of any Episcopal mission or church in Hingham, there had been for many years intermittent services in the town.
   In 1824, the first services of the Episcopal Church were held in Hingham and continued for a time, with good attendance, in a hall fitted up for the purpose by Mr. Daniel Bassett, an ardent Episcopalian.
   The number of those interested for any length of time was so small, however, that no attempt was made to establish a church on a permanent foundation.
   From the Hingham Gazette we learn that Rev. Mr. Cutler preached on the Sunday following Christmas, 1827; and from a private letter that the Rt. Rev. Alexander Viets Griswold, S. T. D., Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, preached in Hingham on an evening in June, 1828, which was probably the first visitation of a Bishop to Hingham.
   About the year 1841 Rev. Samuel Cutler, of Hanover, held services in Bassett's hall, being assisted by clergymen who chanced to be in the vicinity during the summer season.
   The families of Daniel Bassett, Atherton Tilden, and Edward Wilder were the only residents of the town, so far as can be ascertained, at that time identified with the church.
   In 1843, services were again held in the same hall by Rev. John P. Robinson, of Quincy.   The hall was loaned for the purpose, seats were put in, and prayer-books purchased, which were marked upon the covers, "Episcopal Church, Hingham."   Some of these books are now in use.   The services were abandoned after a short time, as the number interested in them was small.
   Rev. Theodore W. Snow, a missionary in 1844, "visited many places in the Diocese, and among others held one of more services in Hingham."
   May 30, 1869, an evening service was held in Loring Hall, and through the following summer continued regularly.   The Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, S. T. D., LL.D., Bishop of Massachusetts,