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Various Authors
History of Hingham

The Online Edition

Volume I, Parts I & II - History

Various Authors, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Volume I (Hingham: Town of Hingham 1893).

Note that in the text frequent reference is made to a number of other works. They are:

• "Barry's History" — John Stetson Barry, The History of Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1855-1857).


• "Cushing's Manuscript" — Henry Ausin Whitney, ed., Early Settlers of Hingham. Extracts from the Minutes of Daniel Cushing, with a Photograph of his Manuscript List; also some Account of John Cutler, one of the Early Settlers of Hingham (Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1865).


• "Deane's History" — Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831 (Boston: James Loring, 1831; repr. N. Scituate MA: Bates and Vinal, 1899; Scituate MA: Scituate Historical Society, 1975).


• "Hingham in the Civil War" — Fearing Burr and George Lincoln, The Town of Hingham in the Late Civil War with Sketches of Its Soldiers and Sailors. Also the Address and Other Exercises at the Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. (Hingham, MA: Published by Order of the Town, Rand Avery & Co. Printers, Boston, 1876).


• "Hobart's Diary" — C. Edward Egan, Jr., "The Hobart Journal," published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 121 [1967], pp. 3-25, 102-127, 191-216, 269-294.


• "Lincoln's 'History of Hingham'" — Solomon Lincoln, Jr., History of the Town of Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. (Hingham, MA: Caleb Gill, Jr. and Farmer and Brown, 1827).


• "Ply. Col. Rec's." — Plymouth Colony Records, published as Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. (Boston: The Press of William White, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1855-61; repr. in 6 vols., New York: AMS Press, 1968).


• "Savage's 'Genealogical Dictionary'" — James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1860-62; repr. Baltimore: many eds. 1965-1998).


• "S. D." (Suffolk Deeds) — Mss. at Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, Boston.


• "S. P. R." (Suffolk Probate Records) — Mss. at Suffolk Probate and Family Court, Boston.

This is a work in progress, begun by the late CJ McNew, carried on by the current webmaster and supported by the greatly appreciated efforts of many volunteers. The pages here are a mixture of images, CJ's original text transcribed by volunteers, and reformatted pages, some of which are a reworking of CJ's text and some of which are new.

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I have added some notes [in red and in square brackets] to the reformatted pages to acknowledge volunteer transcribers and to correct typographical errors. Links between at the bottom of reformatted pages have also been added to aid navigation.

I would like to thank all of the volunteer transcribers who have made this project possible. Special thanks to Lisa Whiting, who edited the Military section and much of Volume I, Part 2, and transcribed most of the "S" through "Y" families and the entire supplement.

 

History

Volume I - Part I
	The Geology of Hingham	Thomas T. Bouvé	1
	Mineralogy	Thomas T. Bouvé	75
	Notes on Animal Life	Thomas T. Bouvé	79
	The Botany of Hingham	Thomas T. Bouvé	87
	Trees and Shrubs of Hingham	Edward T. Bouvé	139
	Ancient Landmarks	Edward T. Bouvé	157
	Early Settlers	John D. Long	201
	Military History	Walter L. Bouvé	209
Volume I - Part II
	Ecclesiastical History	Francis H. Lincoln	1
	Education	Francis H. Lincoln	83
	Manufacturers and Commerce	George Lincoln	155
	Agriculture	Edmund Hersey	181
	Publications	Fearing Barr	193
	Public Conveyances	Francis H. Lincoln	241
	Fire Department	Francis H. Lincoln	257
	Water-Works	Charles W. S. Seymour	261
	Public Institutions	Francis H. Lincoln	271
	Lodges and Societies	Francis H. Lincoln	289
	Native and Resident Physicians	George Lincoln	307
	Native and Resident Lawyers	Francis H. Lincoln	327
	Native Ministers	Francis H. Lincoln	341
	Burial Grounds	George Lincoln	355
	Miscellaneous Matters	Francis H. Lincoln	379
	Index (of Hingham History)		387

 

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