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Dedham, a discourse delivered before 

 Constellation Lodge at, ii. 221. 



Dedication of Loring Hall, ii. 281. 



Dedication of the Baptist Meeting- House, 

 ii. 59. 



Dedication of the Chapel of the United 

 Social Society of South Hingham, ii. 

 78. 



Dedication of Loring Hall, ii. 281-282. 



Dedication of the Church of St. Paul 

 (Roman Catholic), ii. 79, 80. 



Dedication of the Hingham Public Li- 

 brary Building (the first), ii. 146. 



Dedication of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, ii. 62. 



Dedication of the Meeting-House of the 

 Evangelical Congregational Society, ii. 

 67. 



Dedication of the Parish-House, ii. 37. 



Dedication of the Meeting-House of the 

 First Universalist Society, ii. 65. 



Dedication of " Wilder Memorial " Hall, 

 ii. 286-287. 



Dedicatory Address, and Reports of the 

 Trustees of the Hingham Public Li- 

 brary, ii. 233. See also ii. 144-154. 



Dedication of the spacious manufactory 

 building of Messrs. Burr, Brown, & Co., 

 ii. 161-162. 



Deed from Hon. Albert Fearing to the 

 trustees of the Hingham Public Library, 

 ii. 146, 148, 149. 



Deerfield, a funeral discourse on the death 

 of Luther B. Lincoln preached at, ii. 

 218. 



Deerfield Collection of Sacred Music, 

 author of the, ii. 354. 



Deer Hill, and Deer Hill Lane, i. 163, 169. 



Degrees received, Bachelor of Theology, 

 ii. 343 ; LL.B., 328, 329, 330, 337, 338, 

 340; M.D., 309, 310 (2), 311 (2), 312, 

 313, 314, 318, 319 (2), 322 (2), 325 (2) ; 

 S.T.D., 342, 353, 354. 



Delegates for revising the Constitution of 

 Massachusetts, ii. 44, 342, 346. 



Dempsey, James, i. 366. 



Department of the South, commander of 

 the, i. 321. 



Deputy Collectors of the Customs in 

 Hingham, list of, ii. 385. 



Derby Academy, i. 188; its founder and 

 benefactor, ii. 115, 116 ; first opened as 

 a school, 129, 130; importance of the 

 annual lecture in years past, 137; its 

 hall frequently used at a former period 

 by religious societies, for town meet- 

 ings, social gatherings, etc., 135 ; un- 

 successful attempt to utilize it for the 

 purpose of a high school for the town, 

 136, 137. 



Derby, death of Madam, ii. 129. 



Derby Lectures (discourses and sermons), 

 by whom and where held, ii. 130, 138, 

 142, 203 (2), 218, 222,233. 



Derby School, act for establishing the ; 

 deeds of bargain and sale, of lease 



and release ; name changed to Derby 

 Academy ; surroundings of the, ii. 117, 

 122, 130. 



Derby's Bridge, i. 198. 



Descendauts of the early settlers of Hing- 

 ham, and bearing their surnames, who 

 served in the Revolution, and in the 

 Civil War, i. 328, 368, 369. 



Description of Hingham at its settlement, 

 i. 241. 



Destruction of the first Public Library 

 building with its contents by fire, ii. 

 153. 



Devil's Armchair, the, i. 159. 



Devil's Back, i. 183. 



Devonian fossils, illustrations of, i. 210. 



Diabase, generally known as Trap (geo- 

 logical), i. 31. 



Diaries of Lieut. Thomas Burr, Daniel 

 Cushing, and of Paul Litchfield of 

 Scituate, quotations from the, i. 250, 

 288, 300, 301. 



Died in captivity at Halifax, i. 308. 



Died, or killed in battle, in the Civil War, 

 i. 333, 334, 343 (7), 344 (9), 345 (5), 346 

 (3), 347 (3), 348 (7), 349 (3), 351 (2), 

 353(7), 354 (12), 355 (5), 356 (1), 357 

 (1), 358 (3), 360 (4), 362 (2), 363 (4), 367. 



Dieskau's defeat, i. 265. 



Dig-away, or Didgeway, Hill, i. 185. 



Dighton, collector of, i. 325. 



Dike, militia regiment of Colonel, i. 310. 



Dikes, i. 31, 34, 35, 49. 



Dill, Daniel, i. 325, 326, 335. 



Dill, John, i. 282, 323, 325. 



Dill, Lemuel, i. 326. 



Dill, Nathaniel, i. 282, 299, 323. 



Dimensions of the Catholic Church, ii. 79. 



Dimensions of Loring Hall, ii. 281. 



Dimensions of the First and Second 

 Meeting- Houses in the Second Precinct 

 (Cohasset), ii. 37, 39. 



Diorite, exposures of, i. 25-29. 



Dishet, James, i. 320. 



Dismal Swamp, the, i. 191. 



Dissensions in the original Wampatuck 

 Encampment No. 18, I. O. O. F., ii. 295. 



District attorney, an assistant for the 

 Southeastern District of Massachusetts, 

 ii. 328. 



Dixon, John, t ii. 310. 



Divinity, Professor of in the University at 

 Cambridge, ii. 228. 



Divisions of land, the early, i. 161, 162, 

 163, 184. 



Doane's Island, i. 158. 



Dobb's Ferry, i. 325. 



Dolan, John, i. 357. 



Donations to tl\e Hingham Public Li- 

 brary, ii. 144, 145, 151, 152, 154. 



Donavan, John R., i. 361. 



Donnelin, Patrick, i. 357. 



Donnells, Reuben, i. 262. 



Door-blind and sash manufactory, ii 165. 



Dorby, sermon at the ordination of Rev. 

 Jonathan, h. 204. 



