Ecclesiastical History. 



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The Parish House, which stands on Main Street, nearly opposite 

 the meeting-house was completed and dedicated March 20, 1891. 



There being no vestry room or chapel connected with the 

 meeting-house, the need had long been felt of a suitable building 

 for the uses of the Sunday-school and other purposes connected 

 with the religious and charitable work and social life of the 

 parish. For fifteen or twenty years efforts had been made by 

 those interested, with good success, to accumulate a fund suffi- 

 cient for the erection of such a building. The Ladies' Benevolent 

 Society connected with the parish, by means of fairs and enter- 

 tainments, made substantial contributions to this fund ; Rev. 

 Calvin Lincoln, by his will, left to the parish a sum of money 

 which could be used for the purpose ; these with other amounts 

 being invested from time to time increased by the accumulations 

 of interest ; money was subscribed for the purchase of the lot ; 

 and in due time this Parish House was built. Peabody & Stearns 

 were the architects. 



SECOND PARISH (COHASSET). 



»_^ The difficulties at- 



tending the formation 

 of this parish have al- 

 ready been stated. 



In what year a meet- 

 ing-house was erected 

 in Conohasset does not 

 appear by the records. 

 It was probably in 1713, 

 possibly not until after 

 1717, but certainly be- 

 fore 1721. Probably 

 there was preaching in 

 it before the settlement 

 of the first pastor. Its 

 dimensions were thirty- 

 five by twenty-five feet, 

 and it was situated on 

 the Plain a little to the 

 south of the present 

 house. May 14, 1713, 

 it was voted " that the proprietors of the undivided lands give 

 their consent to the inhabitants of Conohasset to erect a meeting- 

 house on that land called ' The Plain.' " 



Many facts relating to the history of the Second Parish may be 

 obtained from the valuable and interesting discourses delivered by 

 the Rev. Jacob Flint, on the completion of the first century of its 

 existence. 



COHASSET MEETING-HOUSE. 



