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History of Hingham. 



quite large expenditures required. In 1884 they had paid into 

 the treasury of the corporation 14,482.67, 1286.67 of which was 



appropriated for placing in the 

 " old ground " a granite monu- 

 ment commemorative of the 

 "Early Settlers of the West 

 part of Hingham." In addition 

 to the sum of $4,482.67, con- 

 tributed by the ladies, who are 

 now organized under the stat- 

 utes as " The Ladies Fort Hill 

 Sewing Circle in Hingham," 

 they have given to the proprie- 

 tors of the cemetery $2,000, to 

 be held as a fund, the income of 

 which is to be devoted to the 

 care of the cemetery. In 1890 

 a chapel similar in form to the 

 one in the Hingham cemetery, 

 but of smaller size, was erected. 

 The contractor was J. F. Vinal 

 of Weymouth. 



In 1866, the proprietors pur- 

 chased of the estate of David 

 Brown about one acre of land 

 the northwesterlv side of 



i/»"j/v<: Co nos 



on 



EARLY SETTLERS' MONUMENT, FORT 

 HILL CEMETERY. 



Fort Hill Street, for the mate- 

 rial to be used in filling and 

 grading lots ; the ledges under- 

 lying much of the cemetery ground requiring large filling to fit 

 the lots for burial purposes. 



The town by vote have given the proprietors the care and man- 

 agement of the " Old Burying Ground," reserving therein a lot 

 for the burial of such as may have no one to provide for them ; 

 and the town also appropriated $75 towards building the fence 

 on the line of the cemetery and the schoolhouse lot. 



Since the proprietors organized in 1851 they have sold one 

 hundred and forty lots. 



The officers of the Fort Hill Cemetery Corporation since it 

 organized have been as follows : — 



Presidents: David Stoddar, 1851-52; Marshall Lincoln, 1852- 

 54 ; Martin B. Stoddar, 1854-55 : Joseph A. Newhall, 1855-68 ; 

 William Lincoln, 1868-79; Henry L. Fletcher, 1879, and in 

 successive years following. 



Secretary : Quincy Bicknell, Jr., 1851 to 1856 ; now Quincy 

 Bicknell, and annually re-elected to the present time. 



Treasurers : Thomas W. Stoddar, 1851-81 ; Isaac W. Our, 

 1881, and to the present time. 



Directors: Warren A. Hersey, 1851-52 ; Ezra Bicknell, 1851- 



