206 History of H Ingham. 



of Great Brittanie France and Ireland King defender of the faith &c. 

 1G65. 



Signed sealled and delivered 

 In the presence of us : 



Job Noeshteans Indian 



the marke of W william Man 



ananianut Indian 

 the marke of 8 Robert Mamun- 



tahgin Indian 

 John Hues 

 Mattias Q Briggs 

 the marke of |" Jon Judkins 



the marke JO of (l. s.) Wompa- 



tuck called by the English Josiak 



cheif sachem, 

 the marke J of Squmuck (t,. s.) 



called by the English Daniell 



sonne of Chickatabut. 

 the marke fTTl 0I Ahahden (l. s.) 



Josiali Wompatuck Squmuck Ahahden Indians apeared p'soually the 

 19th of may 1668 and acknowledged this instrum't of writing to be theyr 

 act and deed freely and voluntary without compulsion, acknowledged 

 before 



Jno. Leverett, Ast. 



It needs but a glance at the names of the early settlers of Hing- 

 ham, as given above by Mr. Lincoln, to recognize the founders of 

 some of the most respectable and influential families of Massa- 

 chusetts. Few names are more distinguished in the annals of the 

 Commonwealth or nation than that of dishing. There is reason 

 to believe that Abraham Lincoln was one of the manv descendants 

 from Hingham stock who have made it illustrious in American 

 history. Nearly all of the names in the foregoing lists are still 

 familiar in this generation. These first settlers were men of 

 character and force, of good English blood, whose enterprise and 

 vigor were evident in the very spirit of adventure and push which 

 prompted their outset from the fatherland and their settlement in 

 the new country. They were of the Puritan order which followed 

 Winthrop rather than of the Pilgrim element that settled at Ply- 

 mouth a few vears earlier. The distinction between the two is now 

 well understood. The Pilgrims were Brownists or Separatists, 

 later called Independents, opposed to the national church, insist- 

 ing on separation from it, and reducing the religious system to 

 the simplest form of independent church societies. 



Indeed it was natural that the spirit that led to reform and 

 greater simplicity in church methods and organization, which was 

 the aim of the Puritans, should go still further and demand entire 

 separation and independence, which was Separatism, and of which 

 the most illustrious type is found in the Pilgrims who sailed in 

 the " Mayflower," and settled in Plymouth in 1620. It is to be 

 noticed that those who thus went to the extreme of ecclesiastical 

 independence were consistent in granting the same liberty to others 

 which they claimed for themselves ; and it is true that the Pil- 

 grims were more tolerant than the Puritans. Lying on the 

 border-line between the jurisdictions of Plymouth and the Massa- 

 chusetts Bay, the first settlers of Hingham are not to be too closely 

 identified with either. They were within the outer limits of the 



