. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . heHinghams be stepping stones to closer friendship between Anglo-Saxon people? . .When all the towns in both countries feel the same hearty good will no ill will can existbetween the nations. . The two Hinghams, when all is said, are strands in the bondsof confidence that bind English speaking people together. The following day as the Committee left the village many of the inhabitants werein their doorways waving the visitors a farewell. Near the old English town areto be found Norwich, Yarmouth, Ipswich, Weston, Wrentham, Boxford,
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . heHinghams be stepping stones to closer friendship between Anglo-Saxon people? . .When all the towns in both countries feel the same hearty good will no ill will can existbetween the nations. . The two Hinghams, when all is said, are strands in the bondsof confidence that bind English speaking people together. The following day as the Committee left the village many of the inhabitants werein their doorways waving the visitors a farewell. Near the old English town areto be found Norwich, Yarmouth, Ipswich, Weston, Wrentham, Boxford, Stone-ham, Lynn, Sudbury, Attleboro, Cambridge and Boston, all of which names canbe foimd in both countries. Just before America entered the Great War our Hingham took up a publicsubscription for the benefit of the war sufJerers in English Hingham, and collectedfifteen hundred dollars for this purpose. In return, a copy of the roll of honourof the English town during the war was sent over here and is now in the townbuilding. 168 HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS. J-rom •! photosrapk sent by Hingham, England, to Rev. Louis C. Cornish, formerly of Bingham, Massachusetts Kindness Rev. Louis C. Corniah MOUxNTING BLOCK NEAR THE VILLAGE GREEN, HINGHAM, ENGLAND The inscription above the stone reads: This stone was given in 1Q13 by the people of Hingham, Massa-chusetts, to replace the Ancient Mounting Block which stood upon this spot, presented to them in igii byHingham, Norfolk. (England) Very recently Mr. Cornish made another visit to old Hingham and made aspeech on the village green listened to by a large number of the inhabitants of theold town. Rev. Ebenezer Gay, known as the father of American Unitarianism, seems tohave been one of the wits of our Hingham in the early days. Once he was ridingto Boston with a friend and as they were crossing Boston Neck he was askedjocosely by his companion, Where would you be, my friend, if those gallows hadtheir due? Riding alone to Boston was the promp
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