igS HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



Son and Holy Ghost. To God the Father, as our chief and only 

 good ; and unto our Lord Jesus Christ as our Prophet, Priest and 

 King, and only mediator of the covenant of grace \ and unto 

 the Spirit of God as our only sanctifier and comforter. And we 

 do give up ourselves one unto another in the Lord, covenanting 

 and promising to walk together as a Church of Christ, in all ways 

 of his own institution, according to the prescriptions of his holy 

 word, promising that with all tenderness and brotherly love, we 

 will with all faithfulness watch over each other's souls, and that 

 we will freely yield up ourselves to the discipline and power of 

 Christ in his church, and attend whatever ordinances Christ hath 

 appointed and declared in his word ; and wherein we fail, and 

 come short of duty, to wait upon him for pardon and remission, 

 beseeching him to make our spirits steadfast in his covenant, and 

 to own us as his church and covenant people forever. Amen. 



(Pastor) NEHEMIAH HOBART. 

 JOHN ORCUTT. 

 STEPHEN STODDARD. 

 THOMAS JAMES. 

 JOHN JACOB. 

 EBENEZER KENT. 

 JOSEPH BATES. 

 ELIJAH VINAL Jr.* 



Thus were they bound together in a fellowship so 

 sacred that the Hingham church had no need to fear for 

 their orthodoxy. 



But how about the school privileges } They must have 

 their children taught, and the Hingham people were will- 

 ing to refund a part of the Cohasset school tax, since the 

 rights of the precinct compelled it. 



As early as the spring of 1721 the precinct voted to 

 receive the school money "from the town of Hingham, 

 and to dispose of it as followeth : one third part of it to 

 be paid to a school dame for teaching the children to 

 read, and two thirds of the money to be disposed of to 



*This man was from North Scituate, as probably were several of the worship- 

 ers in these first days. 



