. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . society innocently cheerful. He served in onecampaign as chaplain to a colonial regiment in Nova Scotia, and 40 History of Hingham. by his word and example, during the Revolutionary period, encour-aged his fellow-citizens to maintain the struggle for liberty. Hedied in the sixty-seventh year of his age and the forty-fifth of hisministry. He preached until the last Sabbath of his life, andwas buried in Cohasset. It was during the ministry of Mr. Brown that Cohasset was setoff from Hingham and incorporated as a town in 1770, and fromthat time the
. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . society innocently cheerful. He served in onecampaign as chaplain to a colonial regiment in Nova Scotia, and 40 History of Hingham. by his word and example, during the Revolutionary period, encour-aged his fellow-citizens to maintain the struggle for liberty. Hedied in the sixty-seventh year of his age and the forty-fifth of hisministry. He preached until the last Sabbath of his life, andwas buried in Cohasset. It was during the ministry of Mr. Brown that Cohasset was setoff from Hingham and incorporated as a town in 1770, and fromthat time the history of this parish ceases to be a part of thehistory of Hinglmm. THIRD (AFTERWARDS SECOND) PARISH, SOUTH HINGHAM. The Third Parish,in Hingham, was setoff March 25, 1745,and a meeting-househad already been erect-ed in 1742. It com-prised the southerlyportion of the was much oppo-sition in the town tothe setting off of thisas a separate parish,and bitter controver-sies arose in conse-quence ; but by persist-part of the town at last. \W Bj^.tsiv, !»«//« P ? SOUTH HINGHAM MEETING-HOUSE. ent efforts the inhabitants of the southsucceeded in carrying out their wishes. On the church record we find : — Nov. 20, 1746. The church in the south parish, in Hingham, wasembodied by the rev*? Nathanael Eelles, of Scituate, and the rev? Wil-liam Smith, of Weymouth. And the covenant to which the members assented was the fol-lowing : — We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, apprehending ourselvescalled of God into a sacred fellowship with one another in the professionand practice of the holy christian religion as a particular Church of theLord Jesus Christ, do solemnly covenant with God and with one anotheras follows : — In the first place, We avouch the Lord this day to be our God, yield-ing ourselves to him to be his servants, and chusing him to be our por-tion forever. We give up ourselves unto that God, whose name alone is Jehovah,and is the Father, and the Son. and
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