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Publications, Historical Documents and Maps
These are some of the current Historical Commission's publications.
Links to purchase online are indicated below, and copies may also be available for purchase through the Hingham Historical Society.
A Guide to Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hingham, Alexander Macmillan and Stephen Dempsey, 2017
"Hingham is one of the oldest towns in America (settled 1633). The towns' primary resource that underlies the environmental excellence is its distinctive, contiguous, wood-frame architectural resource is an aesthetic, cultural and economic resource that is also a national heritage.
During each year many questions are posed to me regarding Hingham's natural and historic resources. Without question, the most sought after information is for a history of the town's old buildings. Invariably I am asked, 'Where is and how old is the oldest house in Hingham?
Tranquility Grove: The Great Abolitionist Picnic of 1844, Marth Bewick, 2018
Tranquility Grove: The Great Abolitionist Picnic of 1844 tells the story of an important event that took place in Hingham, Massachusetts. Attended by as many as 10,000 people, the largest abolitionist picnic in history marked the tenth anniversary of the end of slavery in the British West Indies. For abolitionists, celebrating the emancipation of West Indian slaves on August 1 was even more important than commemorating the 4th of July.
When I Think of Hingham, Michael J. Shilhan, 2002
Hingham Heritage Custom Google Map
The Hingham Heritage Map is a custom Google map with a series of topical overlays on which locations of local historical significance are geo-located and described.
- Winthrop’s Journal on the History of New England 1630-1649 (Vol. II) pp. 229-245
John Winthrop, Ed. By Hosmer (1908) - Magnalia Christi Americana - The Life of Mr. Peter Hobart ( pp. 497-502)
Cotton Mather (1702) - Oration delivered before the citizens of Hingham on the 4th of July, 1826
Solomon Lincoln (1826) -
History of the Town of Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Solomon Lincoln, Jr. (1827) - The Genealogy of the Spragues in Hingham
Hosea Sprague (1828) - Letter to Governor Levi Lincoln in relation to Harvard University
Francis C. Gray (1831) - History of Scituate, Massachusetts from its first settlement to 1831
Samuel Deane (1831) - Solomon Lincoln’s Bi-Centennial Address To the Town
Solomon Lincoln, Jr. (1835) - Speech of Mr. Levi Lincoln, Jr. of Massachusetts in Congress on Slavery Issue
Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1837) - Anti-slavery melodies, for the friends of freedom
Jairus Lincoln, Hingham Anti-slavery Society (Mass.)(1843) - Address delivered by Joseph Richardson at 50th year of his Ministry
Richardson (1856) - John Beal of Hingham, and One Line of Descendants
Shurtleff (1865) - History of the Town of Abington
Benjamin Hobart, (1866) - Sketch of the Official Life of John Andrew, and His Farewell Address
Albert Gallatin Browne (1868) - A Genealogical History of the Descendents of Joseph Peck
Ira Peck (1868) - Discourse Delivered to the First Parish in Hingham on Reopening of the Meeting-House
Calvin Lincoln (1869) - The Town of Hingham in the Late Civil War
Burr, Lincoln (1876) - Genealogy of the Cushing Family
Lemuel Cushing (1877) - Commemorative Services at the First Parish on Its 200th Anniversary
By the Parish (1882) - The New England Magazine (Stories on Hingham & John Andrew) (pp. 258-265; pp. 140-146)
Francis Lincoln (1885) -
History of Shipbuilding on the North River
l. Vernon Briggs (1889) - Tower Genealogy, an Account of the Descendants of John Tower
Charlemagne Tower, (1891) - Record of the Rust Family that settled in Hingham, 1634-1635
(1891) - Proceedings
of American Antiquarian Society, (P. 438 et seq) - Brief of Levi
Lincoln Sr. before Chief Justice William Cushing on status of slavery
under new Massachusetts Constitution (1781)
A.A. Society (1892)
George Lincoln, et als, (1893)
- Volume I, Part 1 (Historical)
- Volume l, Parts 1 and 2 (Historical) Large pdf file (Boston Pub. Library)
- Volume I, Parts 1 and 2 (Historical) smaller streaming flip file (Boston Pub. Library)
- Volume II (Genealogical)
- Volume III (Genealogical)
- Tourists’ Guide to Hingham, etc. (pp. 1-29)
Old Colony Railroad (1893) - Steven Gates of Hingham and his Descendents
Charles O. Gates (1893) - Our Colonial Homes (pp. 105-115)
Drake, (1894) - After Dinner and Other Speeches
John D. Long (1897) - A History of the Boston Base Ball Club (mentioning Fred Lake & Mike Kelly)
George Touhey (1897) - A Narrative History of the Town of Cohasset, Massachusetts
Edward V. Bigelow (1898) - Thomas Joy and his Descendents
James Joy (1900) - History of the Pilgrim Shore (Hingham, at pp. 86 et seq)
Edmund H. Garrett (1900) - Life in a New England Town, 1787-1788
From the Diary of John Quincy Adams, (Pub. 1903) - The Craftsman (Account of Hingham Arts & Crafts Society) see p. 276 et seq.)
United Crafts (1904) - The Life of John Andrew
Henry Pearson (1904) - The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Henry Lea, (1909) - Centennial Address in memory of Abraham Lincoln
John D. Long (1909) - Reminiscences of My 70 Years Education - Proceedings of Mass Historical Society (pp. 348-359)
John D. Long (1909) - The Chaffee Genealogy
William H. Chaffee (1909) - Hingham, a Story of Its Early Settlement and Life, its Ancient Landmarks, etc
D.A.R., (1911) - The Stoddard Family - Descendants of John Stoddard
(1912) - The Hills of Hingham,
Dallas Lore Sharp (1916) - Resolutions in Commemoration of John Davis Long
Massachusetts House of Representatives (1916) - Reminiscences of My 70 Years Education - Proceedings of Mass Historical Society p. 348-359
John D. Long (1909) - Loring Genealogy
Pope, Loring and Loring (1917) - Loring Geneology (Second Reference)
Pope, Loring and Loring (1917) -
Stowell Geneology
William Henry Harrison Stowell (1922)
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Historic Preservation
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Hingham, MA 02043-2759
Phone: 781-741-1492
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8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.Friday
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