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stage-lines running out of Boston. It states that the Plymouth 

 stage started from King's Inn, and adds the following note : 

 " N. B. Plymouth stage passes through Bridgewater every 

 Wednesday and Thursday, and through Hingham all the other 

 regular days." There are similar notes in 1803 and 1804. The 

 time of leaving was five or six o'clock in the morning, according 

 to the season of the year. In 1805 the announcement is, " Ply- 

 mouth mail stage (through Hingham and Hanover) sets off from 

 Mrs. King's Inn every Tuesday and Friday at 5 o'clock in the 

 morning. Leaves Plymouth every Monday and Thursday." The 

 Plymouth stage continued for many years to run through Hing- 

 ham certain days in the week, and was the regular afternoon 

 stage to Boston, and the morning stage from Boston. 



Hingham as a line by itself first appears in the " Register " in 

 1815, when the stages were announced to leave Boston " from 

 Boyden's, Dock Square, Mon. Thur. Sat. 4 P. M." 



Three days in the week was the arrangement until 1826, when 

 it ran five days, and in 1827 Abiel Wilder advertised that his stage 

 would leave his house every day, except Sundays, at 6 o'clock 

 A. M., and Capt. Riley's, No. 9 Elm Street, Boston, at 4 o'clock 

 P. M. Mr. Wilder's was the regular Hingham stage, apparently 

 without competition, until the autumn of 1828. 



The following list of stage lines and proprietors, which is as 

 complete as can be ascertained, will show the stage arrangements 

 in and after 1828 in a convenient form. Possibly the list is in- 

 complete, but there continued to be a regular stage to Boston 

 until about the time of the opening of the railroad in 1849. 



1828. Abiel Wilder. Scituate & Boston Accommodation, Amos H. 

 Hunt. Marshfield, Scituate, Cohasset, and Hingham Mail, Jedediah 

 Little and Co., through Hingham three times a week. 



1828-1832. Little & Morey. 



1832. Moses Pattangall — winter of 1832-33. 



1833. A. & B. Wilder. Little & Morey. 



1834. A. & B. Wilder. 



1835. A. Wilder, Agt. 

 183G. A. Wilder, Agt. 

 1836-1842. Little & Morey. 

 1842-1843. Hersey & Hichborn. 



1844. Warren A. Hersey, proprietor ; Wm. Hichborn, driver. J. W. 

 Thayer, winter of 1844-45. 



1845. W. Hichborn, driver. 



1846. "Railroad Line," connecting with Old Colony Railroad at 

 Quiney ; Wm. Hichborn, driver. " Old Line," Reuben Gardner, — Hing- 

 ham to Boston. 



1847-48. P. Jones & Co. "will run a stage through Hingham." 



The last insertion of the stage-coach advertisement was in the 

 " Hingham Patriot," Aug. 11, 1848. 



The fare was at first $1.00. In 1830 Little and Morey reduced 

 it to 75 cents, and in 1841 to 50 cents. Other lines adopted the 

 same rate. 



