Ancient Landmarks. 195 



GLAD-TIDINGS ROCK. 



although particular portions are more specially designated. The 

 road winds up a slight rise from Tower's Bridge, and High Street, 

 a few rods beyond, runs west to Weymouth. Just off this street 

 is White-Horse Pond. Free Street is opposite to High, on 

 Main Street, and runs east to Lasell Street. Just north of Free 

 Street is a small conical height called Crow Hill, formerly a 

 famous resort for the birds of that feather. Near by is Crow- 

 Hill Swamp. 



A short distance further south Main Street crosses the stream 

 coming from Cushing's Pond bv Wilder's Bridge. From this 

 bridge to Mayse's (Liberty Pole) Hill, is Glad-Tidings Plain. 

 After surmounting another rise in the road, we find on the west 

 side the church of the Second Parish. 



This village is South Hingham, and the street is very wide 

 and straight for a long distance, running between extensive 

 bordering lawns and fine rows of trees. Back of the houses 

 on the east side is a high granite ledge, known as Glad- 

 Tidings Rock. 



In King Philip's War, a famous hunter, John Jacob by name, 

 went out to shoot deer near where the church now stands. He is 

 said to have frequently declared that he never would allow him- 

 self to be taken alive by the Indians if he encountered them. 

 They ambushed and shot him dead near this rock, and one tra- 

 dition says that his friends, overjoyed to find that he had been 

 killed outright and not captured to be tortured to death by the 

 savages, called it Glad-Tidings Rock. Another tradition re- 

 counts that a woman, lost by her friends, was discovered by them 

 from the top of the rock, and that from this circumstance the 

 ledge received its name. 



