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HINGHAM , a township of See also:Plymouth See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on Massachusetts See also:Bay. Pop (1890) 4564; (1900) 5059 (969 being See also:foreign-See also:born); (1905, See also:state See also:census) 4819; (1910) 4965. See also:Area, about 30 sq. in. The township is traversed by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, and contains the villages of Hingham, See also:West Hingham, Hingham Center, and See also:South Hingham. See also:Derby See also:Academy, a co-educational school
founded and endowed with about £12,000 in 1784 by Sarah Derby (1714–1790), was opened in 1791. Hingham has a public library (1868), with 12,000 volumes in 1908. The Old See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
Meeting See also:House, erected in 1681, is one of the See also:oldest See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church buildings in the See also:country used continuously. Manufactures were relatively much more important in the 17th and 18th centuries than since. There were settlers here as See also:early as 1633, some of them—notably See also:Edmund See also:Hobart, ancestor of See also:Bishop See also:John See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Hobart,—being natives of Hingham, See also:Norfolk, See also:England, whence the name; and in 1635 See also:common See also:land called Barecove became the township of Hingham.
See See also:History of the See also:Town of Hingham (4 vols., Hingham, 1893).
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