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Samuel Hobart his ensign ; Capt. Pyam dishing, who succeeded 

 Major Gushing in the command of the company, and his lieuten- 

 ant, Robert Garnet, and ensign John Jacob ; Daniel Lincoln, 

 captain of the third company, with Isaac Lincoln, lieutenant, and 

 David Tower, Jr., ensign. The fourth Hingham company was 

 commanded by Thomas Jones, and his lieutenant was Benjamin 

 Thaxter, with Ebenezer Beale, Jr., for his ensign. The troop of 

 horse which still existed was officered by David Cushing, captain, 

 Benjamin Hayden, lieutenant, Jonathan Bass, cornet, and Joseph 

 Cushing, quartermaster. Soon after, James Humphrey became 

 first major, and Benjamin Lincoln, Jr., second major of the 

 regiment. 



In 1771 this old command, formed in the early days of the 

 colony, and so long known as the Third Suffolk, had hecome the 

 second regiment, with John Thaxter, colonel, and Benjamin Lin- 

 coln, lieutenant-colonel. The companies from Hingham were 

 officered as follows : 1st company. James Lincoln, captain ; Elijah 

 Lincoln, lieutenant; 2d company, Enoch Whiton, Jr., captain; 

 Theophilus Wilder, Jr., lieutenant ; 3d company, Isaiah Cushing, 

 captain ; Peter Cushing. lieutenant : John Burr, ensign. 



There was also a train of artillery attached to this regiment, 

 which evidently belonged here, as all its officers were from Hing- 

 ham. They were as follows: Francis barker, Jr., captain ; Sam- 

 uel Thaxter, 1st lieutenant; Jotham Loring, 2d lieutenant; and 

 Levi Lincoln, lieutenant-fireworker. 



Lieut.-Colonel Lincoln was in command of the regiment at the 

 opening of the Revolution, and the muster rolls of the day style 

 it " Col. Lincoln's." although there is some uncertainty about his 

 being so commissioned. 



In the stirring and exciting events preceding and leading up to 

 the war between the colonies and Great Britain, Hingham was an 

 active participant. With that of so many other towns, her history 

 contributes to the familiar narrative of the great part taken by 

 Massachusetts in the resistance to tyrannical and oppressive 

 acts of parliament and king. The names of Hancock, Otis, and 

 Lincoln have for her more even than the interest elsewhere 

 surrounding them, for to the families bearing them she feels the 

 affection and pride belonging to the children of the household. 

 John Hancock, Major-General, President of Congress, and Gover- 

 nor of Massachusetts, was the son of Mary Hawke of Hingham, 

 who first married Samuel Thaxter, Jr., and then John Hancock, of 

 Braintree ; while John Otis, the ancestor of the patriot, was one 

 of the earliest settlers of the town and the possessor of large tracts 

 of land here, and his descendants resided in Hingham for genera- 

 tions. Mary Otis, daughter of James the patriot, married the 

 son of General Lincoln, while other members of the family were 

 connected by marriage with the Thaxters, Gays, Lincolns, and 

 Herseys. The Lincolns fill the pages of local and common- 



