214 History of Hingham,. 



- service either in person or by some substitute to be allowed by 

 him that hath the charge of the watch or warde for that time, with 

 punishment for disobedience." The settlement of 1633, then 

 called Bare Cove, was in July, 1635, erected into a plantation, 

 which carried the right of sending deputies to the General Court ; 

 and in September of the latter year the name was changed to 

 Hingham. 



House lots were granted to some fifty individuals in June and 

 September, and other lands fur the purposes of pasturage and 

 tillage. The former were situated mainly upon Town, now North 

 Street, but during the year the settlement was extended to Broad 

 Cove Lane, now Lincoln Street, and in 1636 the grants were upon 

 what is now South Street and upon Batchelor's How, now the 

 northerly part of Main street. And these early beginnings of our 

 modern streets comprised the whole of the little town, with its two 

 hundred odd inhabitants, when in 1637 it first became a duty to 

 furnish a quota of her sons for the public defence. 



It was the second year of the Pequod War, and Massachusetts — 

 which had already been acting with Connecticut -- was to raise 

 an additional force of one hundred and twenty men, to be placed 

 under the command of Capt. Israel Stoughton ; this number was 

 subsequently increased to one hundred and seventy. Of these, 

 six were men from our town. We unfortunately know the names 

 of none of them, but we can follow in imagination the toilsome 

 march of the little army of which our forefathers formed a small 

 part, as it slowly and painfully made its way through the virgin 

 thickets, almost impenetrable with the stiff', unbending, knarled 

 scrub oak, the matted masses of luxuriant-growing and lacerating 

 horse-brier, beautiful in its polished green, and the almost tropi- 

 cally developed poison-sumac, seductive in its graceful form and 

 rich coloring ; through i.he great forests, dark with the uncut 

 forms of the towering pines ; and through the swamps of the coun- 

 try around Narragansctt Bay, with the rich, black soil of the bot- 

 toms, and the majestic white cedars rising, like great sentries of 

 the red man, far into the air ; and thence up towards the Mystic, 

 spreading widely over the country between. We need not re- 

 hearse the details too minutely here ; we know the story, — the 

 Indians defeated, their tribe destroved, and a dav of thanksgiving 

 appointed ; this time October 12, when it was also ordered that 

 the various towns should " feast" their soldiers, — an injunction 

 doubtless faithfully obeyed, here at least. 



From the time of the Pequod War, apprehensions of renewed 

 trouble with the natives, and the necessary precautions against it, 

 continually grew throughout the colony. Among the enactments 

 was one passed March 13, 1638, directing " that Hingham have a 

 barrel of powder, to be paid for by the town," and from 1640 to 

 1644 frequent orders regulated the time for training the train- 

 bands, and prescribed punishments for neglect. In the former of 



