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pond, are artificial. According to one tradition Accord Pond 

 received its name from the following circumstances. 



A treaty with the Indians was about to be concluded by the 

 inhabitants of the adjacent country, and it was 'decided to as- 

 semble for the purpose at the point where the three towns of 

 Abington, Scituate, and Hingham at that time met, somewhere 

 near the middle of the pond which lay within the limits of these 

 three townships. The conference was held in winter, on the ice, 

 and was entirely successful, the questions at issue being settled 

 amicably. On account of the happy accord which manifested 

 itself between the contracting parties, the sheet of water received 

 from that time the name of Accord Pond. 



There are other traditions of similar import, but this one 

 seems the most interesting. 



One other large natural pond was within the original limits of 

 Hingham, — Scituate Pond ; but it lies in Cohasset, which town, 

 as previously stated, was set off from Hingham in 1770. 



A small stream called Slough River flows from the Farm 

 Hills across Gardner Street, and empties into the northern ex- 

 tremity of Accord Pond. 



On Main Street, a long house, almost the last building in Hing- 

 ham before reaching the town line, was in the early part of the 

 century Sivret's Tavern. The old country taverns in those days 

 were vastly more numerous than they are now, when the railroads 

 covering the country have rendered them superfluous. 



And now that bright yellow sunset over there, beyond the Blue 

 Hills, indicates a fine day for to-morrow. 



This bright morning follows appropriately in the wake of the 

 past few perfect days ; and now let us start for a stroll at the old 

 cove itself. From the Mill bridge, passing west through North 

 Street (the old Town Street of the early settlers) we come within 

 a few rods to where the road bends slightly to the right. Here, 

 where the millpond contracts to half its previous width, there 

 was in the early days of the town, a second mill, and mill-dam 

 across to the cemetery hill. A short distance farther west is 

 Ship Street on the right, in old times Fish Street. At this 

 spot the early settlers with Rev. Peter Hobart landed from 

 their boats. 



The old houses on either corner of Ship and North Streets were 

 formerly the Waters Taverns. An old house next to the one of 

 these two on the westerly corner, was tbe Nye Tavern. Here is 

 where certain British officers, quartered in town as prisoners of 

 war during the Revolution, were brought for their meals. The 

 old house next west of the Nye Tavern, standing on rising ground, 

 with many trees about it, the Gay Mansion, was the home of the 



