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large number of Cohasset citizens at the north end of the 

 town have descended. Their home was in the neighbor- 

 hood of our central cemetery, upon lot seventy-one, which 

 had been granted originally to Rev. Peter Hobart of 

 Hingham. 



The committee that laid out the course of North Main 

 Street on May 4, 1685, turned it westward through the 

 end of this lot diagonally to about where Ripley Road now 

 joins the street. 



For this stretch of highway, about one thousand feet 

 long, the committee gave to " Daniel Lincoln of Conahas- 

 set a piece of land containing one acre and a half or there- 

 about butting upon the meadow of Mary Hearsey (widow) 

 easterly and upon the highway westerly." 



This acre and a half evidently is the hummock of land 

 where the home of Charles S. Bates now stands ; and it 

 may be remembered as one of those gravel moraines made 

 during the melting period of the great glacier when Little 

 Harbor was covered by a huge fragment of ice against the 

 irregular edges of which the gravel Ridges were heaped. 



Here at the shore of Little Harbor was a landing place* 

 for Daniel Lincoln's boat which might carry his loads to 

 and from Hingham Harbor ; also near this same place 

 there were two well-worn trails leading to the old home in 

 Hingham, one skirting the shore somewhat as Jerusalem 

 Road now does, and the other the direct one along the 

 line of North Main Street. Here f lived Daniel Lincoln, 

 a thrifty, hard-working farmer, for more than forty years. 



He lived to see several grandchildren well introduced to 

 life, and to see the little community grown to several hun- 

 dred inhabitants, having their own little church on the 

 common near Meeting-House Pond. 



The property which he accumulated may be guessed 



* This tiny wharf in Little Harbor was referred to in the inventory of William 

 Hersey's property, December 18, 1691, wherein a piece of marsh is described" at 

 Conahasset by Daniel Lincoln's loading place." 



t Somewhere near the east end of lot seventy-one. 



