CONTENTS. XV 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 Separation from Hingham 247 



Growth of the Community — Thirty Fishing Vessels — Sawmill and 

 Corn Mills — The Homes of that Time now Standing — Petition of 

 Precinct to be made a Town — Refusals, Petitions, Counter- 

 petitions — Success at last, 1770 — The Charter of Town — List of 

 Taxpayers of 1771. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 The Revolutionary War 277 



Wars Preceding the Revolution — Capture of Louisburg — French 

 Reduction — William Pitt Medal — Tea Party — Battle of Lexington 



— Cohasset Company — Bunker Hill — Persis Tower — Dorchester 

 Heights — Capture of English Brig — Diary of Ambrose Bates — 

 Not Worth a Continental — Surrender of Cornwallis. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Recuperating During the First Years of the Republic .... 311 



Financial Embarrassment— Rev. John Brown's Diary — Vessels — 

 Doane's Mil — Wreck of Gertrude Maria, 1793 — Shipbuilding 



— P'ish Packing — Foreign Voyages — Tanneries — Little Harbor 

 Meadows. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 The Militia and the War of 1812 335 



Early Trainbands — Continental Army — Militiamen of Cohasset, 

 1808 — British Embargo and Kidnapping — The Little United States 

 Navy — British threaten Cohasset — i-ieut. Thomas Stoddard's 

 Account — Peace Celebration — Militia, continued till 1840. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

 The Town's Church and its Divorce 356 



Town at first supplied Religious Function — Pastor, Janitor, Deacons, 

 Singers, etc. — Methodist Church at North Cohasset, 181 8 — Division 

 at the Center — Second Church organized, 1824 — Unitarians — 

 Church divorced from Town. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 School Progress and the Academy 373 



Dame Schools — Master — First Schoolhouse — Navigation — 

 Beechwood School — Jerusalem — Studies — Quill Pens, etc. — 

 King Street School — Districts — Academy — Proprietors and Pu- 

 pils — Centralizing Government — High School. 



