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History of Hingham. 



by his word and example, during the Revolutionary period, encour- 

 aged his fellow-citizens to maintain the struggle for liberty. He 

 died in the sixty-seventh year of his age and the forty-fifth of his 

 ministry. He preached until the last Sabbath of his life, and 

 was buried in Cohasset. 



It was during the ministry of Mr. Brown that Cohasset was set 

 off from Hingham and incorporated as a town in 1770, and from 

 that time the history of this parish ceases to be a part of the 

 history of Hinglmm. 



THIRD (AFTERWARDS SECOND) PARISH, SOUTH 



HINGHAM. 



The Third Parish, 

 in Hingham, was set 

 off March 25, 1745, 

 and a meeting-house 

 had already been erect- 

 ed in 1742. It com- 

 prised the southerly 

 portion of the town. 

 There was much oppo- 

 sition in the town to 

 the setting off of this 

 as a separate parish, 

 and bitter controver- 

 sies arose in conse- 

 quence ; but by persist- 

 part of the town at last 



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SOUTH HINGHAM MEETING-HOUSE. 



ent efforts the inhabitants of the south 

 succeeded in carrying out their wishes. 



On the church record we find : — 



"Nov. "20, 1746. The church in the south parish, in Hingham, was 

 embodied by the rev*? Nathanael Eelles, of Scituate, and the rev"? Wil- 

 liam Smith, of Weymouth." 



And the covenant to which the members assented was the fol- 

 lowing : — 



" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, apprehending ourselves 

 called of God into a sacred fellowship with one another in the profession 

 and practice of the holy christian religion as a particular Church of the 

 Lord Jesus Christ, do solemnly covenant with God and with one another 

 as follows : — 



" In the first place, We avouch the Lord this day to be our God, yield- 

 ing ourselves to him to be his servants, and chusing him to be our por- 

 tion forever. 



" We give up ourselves unto that God, whose name alone is Jehovah, 

 and is the Father, and the Son. and the holy Ghost, to be his people, to 



