The following biographical sketches are of those natives of Hingham who became ministers and were settled in other places.   The list is as complete as our records have enabled the writer to make it, and it is hoped no important omissions have been made.   There are also sketches of a few who, though not born here, are sufficiently identified with the town to entitle them to notice.   Ministers who have been settled here are noticed, in connection with their parishes, in the chapter on Ecclesiastical History.

   JEDIDIAH ANDREWS [II. 12], son of Thomas Andrews, was born in Hingham, July 7, 1674, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1695.   He taught school in Hingham in 1697, and was ordained in Philadelphia in the autumn of 1701.   He appears to have performed a good deal of missionary labor in other places, as his record of baptisms shows that he ministered in Hopewell, Gloucester, Burlington, Amboy, and Staten Island.   He was the Recording Clerk of the Presbytery and of the Synod as long as he lived.   He conducted most of their correspondence, especially with New England, and was considered to be particularly gifted in bringing to a successful termination any disputes, both in congregations and among individuals.   He died, after a long ministry, in 1747.   Benjamin Franklin speaks of him thus: —

   "Though I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia.   He used to visit me sometimes as a friend, and admonish me to attend his administrations; and I was now and then prevailed on to do so, — once for five Sundays successively.   Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study, but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying; since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, — their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than