238 History of Bingham. 



1889. Financial and School Committee, with Course of Study in the 

 Public Schools, pp. 200. 



1890. Valuation of Real Estate in the Town of Hingham, as assessed 

 for the year 1890. pp. 241. 



1890, 1891. Financial and School Committee. 



1892. The same, with Names of the Legal Voters of the Town of Hing- 

 ham as contained on the Voting-list for the Election in November, 

 1892, and Reports of Committees on Electric Lighting and School- 

 houses, pp. 234. 



Copies of the early Town Reports are becoming scarce. This is es- 

 pecially true with regard to such as are in a good state of preservation. 

 The Reports of our School Committee for the years 1850 to 1853, in- 

 clusive, seem to have been esteemed of little importance, and have not 

 been generally preserved. Those for the year 1850 are particularly 

 rare. A complete series of these publications, in good condition, is some- 

 thing which the possessor may well prize. Such collections, though 

 found in the hands of some of our citizens, are limited in number, and 

 are yearly becoming more difficult to obtain. Of their value it is unne- 

 cessary to speak. Our local historians and genealogists, however, find 

 them almost indispensable as a convenient source for reference concern- 

 ing the various proceedings of the town and the action of its committees 

 during the past thirty or rorty years. 



LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. 



" Hingham Gazette." 



The " Hingham Gazette " was the first newspaper printed in Hingham. 

 It contained twenty columns, and was published weekly every Friday 

 morning, at Loring's Building, corner of Main and South streets, now 

 the site of Lincoln's Building, with the motto, " Let all the ends thou 

 aimest at be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." Jedidiah Farmer 

 and Simon Brown, under the firm of Farmer and Brown, were editors 

 and proprietors. In their address to patrons they state that " the 

 Gazette will be devoted to Political Intelligence, Literature, Religion, 

 Agricultural and Scientific Improvements . . . Free from the political 

 shackles of party feeling, its aim shall constantly be, Publick Good — 

 not men nor measures." The first number was issued January 5, 1827. 



1828. No change. 



1829. April 10. With this number the motto, " the Liberty of the Press 

 and the Liberty of the People must stand or fall together," was substi- 

 tuted in place of the original. September 25th, notice was given that 

 Simon Brown had transferred his interest in this paper to Jedidiah 

 Farmer, who assumed the management, and was announced as publisher. 



1830. No change. 



1831. The title heretofore in Roman letters appeared in German text. 

 The motto was stricken out. In other respects the same. 



1832 to 1835, inclusive, no changes. 



1835, October 2. An Extra was issued in the form of a "broadside," ex- 

 clusively devoted to the Exercises connected with the celebration of the 

 Two Hundredth Anniversary of the settlement of the town, on Monday, 

 September 28th. Copies are scarce. 



1836. Removed to Ford's Building, North Street. 



