PUBLICATIONS. 



BY FEARING BURR. 



In presenting the following notices relating to the authors and 

 publications connected with the History of Hingham, it may be 

 proper to state that no merit for completeness or originality is 

 claimed. 



The field for research in this direction is one which has not 

 hitherto had the attention of the historian, and it has been found 

 necessary to devote much time and careful examination to the 

 subject. The prominent libraries of the city of Boston have been 

 visited, and collectors of rare books interviewed with the hope of 

 adding to the interest and perfection of the chapter. The earlier 

 publications from which quotations of title-pages are given have 

 received personal examination, and notices of those of more recent 

 date have in many instances had their authors' approval. 



The literary labors of those who by virtue of long-continued 

 residence in Hingham have gained citizenship here have been 

 justly added in full. The occasional addresses, orations, and 

 published discourses given by those neither residents nor natives 

 of the town could not be set aside, including as they do many valu- 

 able facts immediately connected with our local history. A few 

 notes and brief biographical sketches have been added where it 

 was thought they would afford information concerning the per- 

 sonal history of an author, thereby enhancing the value and use- 

 fulness of the work. Biographical notices of native or resident 

 clergymen, lawyers, and physicians will be found in the Ecclesias- 

 tical History, and chapters having special reference to their pro- 

 fessions. Should important omissions be discovered, no one will 

 regret their occurrence more than the writer. 



John G. Adams. 



Sermon at the Ordination and Installation of Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, 



as Pastor of the First Universalist Church in Hingham, Mass., Feb. 



19, 1868. Published with services of the occasion. Boston. C. C. 



Roberts, Printer, 1870. 12mo. cloth, pp. 71. (See Oltmpia Brown.) 



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