PREFACE. 



'T^HIS Genealogy of the Families of Hingham has 

 been compiled in accordance with a vote of the 

 committee appointed by the town to prepare and publish 

 its history. It commences with the settlement of the 

 town in 1635, and ends September 1, 1889. 



Owing to the extent of the work, which has greatly 

 exceeded the early estimates made for this portion of the 

 history, it has been found necessary to curtail much of 

 the material at hand relating to the heads of families ; and 

 also to make free use of abbreviations. For the same 

 reason the compiler was instructed to limit the records of 

 families to those persons who are, or have been, residents 

 of the town ; but where part of a family of children were 

 born here, and others of the same family were born else- 

 where, the whole have been given when the names could 

 be ascertained, rather than to break the connection. 



That there may be errors of omitsion and errors of date, 

 as well as in the spelling of names (especially Christian 

 names) in some portions of the work, which the genealo- 

 gist of each family will r?otice, and perhaps criticise, is not 

 improbable. But when it is considered that more than fifty 

 thousand lines with as many Christian names and about 

 three times the number of dates have been written and 



