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time Cohasset was set off from Hingham. He probably removed, 

 at or near the time of the Revolution, to Weymouth, where some 

 of his descendants still reside. 



Joseph Bossuet, for several years a physician in Hingham, was 

 a native of the city of Paris, France. He was educated at the 

 Hotel Dieu, the medical college in Paris, where he practised his 

 profession until France made common cause with the United 

 States, when he came to America as a surgeon and physician in 

 the War of the Revolution. During the war he was not only cap- 

 tured by the British, but he also met with many other reverses 

 and pecuniary losses. At the commencement of the present cen- 

 tury he located in Hingham, and resided, first, on North Street, 

 near the harbor, in the house now owned and occupied by Leonard 

 W. Litchfield. He afterwards lived in the Abicl Wilder house on 

 Lincoln Street. Dr. Bossuet was a thorough master of his profes- 

 sion. Having had a long and varied experience, and possessing 

 excellent judgment, his advice was frequently sought in difficult 

 cases by our local physicians as well as by those from the neigh- 

 boring towns. Late in life he removed with his family to Boston, 

 where he died 13 October, 1827, aged 81 years ; and his widow, 

 Mrs. Catharine Rumport de Vous Doncour Bossuet, died at Rox- 

 bury, Mass., in June, 1830, aged 52 years. Dr. Bossuet joined the 

 Massachusetts Medical Society in 1821. 



Dr. Boylston is supposed to have been located here as a physi- 

 cian in 1722 and 1723, as his name appears among those to whom 

 money was paid at that time by the Selectmen. 



Robert Capen announced through the columns of the local 

 newspaper, dated Hingham, Dec. 21, 1838, that he " has taken 

 the house of the late Joseph J. Whiting, at Queen Ann's Corner, 

 so called, where he may be found by those who desire his profes- 

 sional services." It is said that he came from Plymouth. He 

 remained in Hingham about two years. In 1838 he was elected 

 a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 



David Coggin received his degree of M. D. in 1868 from the 

 Harvard Medical School, and is a member of the Massachusetts 

 Medical Society. In 1869 he came to Hingham and practised in 

 his profession for about two years. Owing to impaired health, 

 however, he removed, in 1871, to St. Louis, Mo. He afterwards 

 returned east, and is now located at Salem, Mass., where he 

 makes a specialty of diseases of the eye. 



Charles Henry Colburn, who succeeded Dr. Ezra Stephenson, 

 was a son of Charles H. and Martha A. (Barnes) Colburn, and a 

 native of Philadelphia, Penn. In early life he came to Boston to 

 reside, and several years later was connected with some of the 

 prominent musical organizations of the city. During the Civil War 

 he joined the Sixth Regimental Band, and while in this service 

 acquired that practical information which proved of great value 

 to him in the profession he afterwards decided to follow. Upon 

 returning to Boston he devoted the greater part of his leisure to 



