Records, 1635-1961.

ArchivalResource

Records, 1635-1961.

Records of baptisms, marriages, admittances to full membership, withdrawals, and deaths; Parish meeting records, committee meeting records, pew deeds and appraisals, account books, scrapbooks, ms. and printed sermons, service programs, brochures, etc.; some records of deaths of African-Americans and Native Americans; tax lists and property valuations for the First Parish; Hobart family genealogy by Jean M. Browne; Lewis C. Cornish's autobiography set in Hingham; some Second Parish (later First Parish Church of Cohasset) and Third Congregational Society (later Second Parish of Hingham) records. Persons represented in the collection include James Hawke, Joseph Richardson, Peter, David, and Nehemiah Hobart, Benjamin Jones, Fearing Burr, Calvin Lincoln, Henry E. Hersey, Ebenezer Gay, Henry Ware, Edward Horton, Hiram Collier, Arthur D. Marble, and Rev. Harry Hooper.

42 boxes, 2 narrow boxes, 3 v., 1 card file box, and 2 oversize v.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7140953

Massachusetts Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 20 Entities related to this resource.

First Church (Hingham, Mass.)

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Hobart family.

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Gay, Ebenezer, 1696-1787

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Probably a resident of Duxbury, Massachusetts. From the description of Ebenezer Gay diary, 1738. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 180917063 ...

Second Parish (Hingham, Mass.)

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Cornish, Lewis C.

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Marble, Arthur D.

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Ware, Henry, 1764-1845

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Ware (Harvard, A.B., 1785) taught theology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Ware, Sr., 1793-1842 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972914 Henry Ware, Sr., a Unitarian minister and theologian, was the fourth Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University from 1805 until 1837. Ware was instrumental in the creation of the Harvard Divinity School and the development of Unitarianism in New England. Henry Ware ...

Lincoln, Calvin.

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Hobart, Nehemiah, 1697-1740.

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Hawke, James, b. 1649.

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Hersey, Henry W.

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Jones, Benjamin.

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First Parish Church (Cohasset, Mass.)

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Hobart, Peter, 1604-1679

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Burr, Fearing

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Collier, Hiram.

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Hooper, Harry, Rev.

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Horton, Edward

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Hobart, David, d. 1717.

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Browne, Jean M.

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