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Show ll, THE SALT LAKE TEIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY Inlhe Footsteps The story of Abraham Lincoln really begin In Bingham, Masa, In th year 137, when the first of hi family Une cam to' the Puritan colony of Boaton Bay. TV cannot account for Abraham Unooln without knowing this story. He was not an accident. The Lincoln were necessary and Important before the miracle of Abraham Lincoln happened. It could not have been without auch vigorous. Independent pioneering ancestors. ,1 have found It an enlightening; and Inspiring thing to follow the Llncolns, beginning at Hingham, to visit all th I lace in which they lived, to travel the roade that they have traveled and to go the records of their through at frst-han- d etivttiea. The whole history of the United States seemed to roll out before me In th wandering and the doing of thla family. In thta narrative a million readers will find a parallel to their own family history. The man an America were founded by and grew from auch fam-ti- oJ Abraham Lincoln rt . The Lincoln were neeeeaary and portant before the miracle of Abraham IJnooln happened. It could not have been without such vigorous, independent ploneer.ng ancestors. It ts now since a boy, Samuel Lincoln, a lad of 17 or 18, such a boy as we now. tend to high school r This boy college, landed In America. waa the of Abraham Lincoln. Young as he was, he was not without some experience of 'life. He had sat on a backless bench in a seventeenth century school room In Hingham, England, and received his share of Its narrow, but thorough, teaching.' .And, he was to earn his living, and weaving waa the natural trade for a boy Norfolk county, England, at that time, he had been apprenticed apprenticed to a man by the name of Francis Lawes. living1 In Norwich, no many miles from Hingham. When you were apprenticed In those days you left your family and became a member of your master s family. You had more to do than to learn to weave. In fact, you .were what was called an Indentured servant. Mr. Lawes was under contract to teach Samuel the trade and to give him his keep and a small prooaoiy a very small weekly or monthly sum. Samuel, in turn, was. obliged to obey Mr. Lawes, and that meant not only that he must learn to weave, but he must wait on the family. If the family waa ungenerous and domineering, it is easy to aee that the apprentices had a bad time. Indeed, they had so bad a time that only a few years after Samuel left England there was what was called we trike. the "apprentices' revolt" should probably say today. It produced the state of thing which led Daniel Defoe to complain that whtle once ap prentices cleaned their masters' shoes snd brought in water and waited at the table, now their mastera were obliged to Veep porters, or "fetch men," as he call tnem, to wan upon ins apprentices, Samuel did not profit by the apprentice!!' strike, for In 1687 Francis Lawes decided to go to America snd to take him alone. It was In April that they "passed into foreign parts," as the record has it a Ion voyage; over two months and in June arrived In Saletn, Mass. Samuel did not stay in Salem. Befors many weeks he took ship for a town twenty miles or thereabouts to the south, called H'ngham, or .New Hingham, after his old home In Norfolk county, England. X say "took ship," and that la aura, for tn those days he could not have gone overland. Safe trails had not yet been established, snd there was no way to cross so w'de a river as the Charles: 1n but Of fishing and trading boats were already not a few plying 'the coast. And It Was in one of that Samuel sailed out one day t by th McClure paper Syndicate. ! , i I 1 Hons now ccuBvlng th (IU of the homo built In Bingham. Mass.. between of 1640 and 1650 by Samuel Lincoln, tho Abraham Lincoln. Many of tho timbers In this house wer used by Samuel Lincoln in building hla first home. It is owned and occupied by a descendant. new meetin hous on. Th majority ruled, but th feud has never quite died out. "If they had not put the meeting house there.'1 I one heard a Illngham- . Ite eayl ' However, that meeting house. Built in with th money that Samuel and l8l his sons and his neighbors subscribed, still stand: it splendid timbers sound and seasoned ar to to seen in It loft. It has been enlarged, to be sui. ceiled. made comfortable in many ways unknown to Samuel's day. but Its bone and sinews are the same. And it has the distinction of being the oldest meeting house In this country, to nave been ui continuous use for aa long aa 144 years. Samuel Lincoln worshipped "in it to the end of hi Ufa That nd cam on May it, 190. Under that date Daniel Cushing put down in his account book; "Old Sam Llnkoln died of the smallpox." Dread disease th only disease on finds mentioned in Peter Hobart's diary account book. or Daniel Cunning's Samuel undoubtedly was buried in the family lot In the old cemeury, but no mark of his grav nor en of Martha, hi wife, nor of th thre babies sh lost,' exist today. Hingham seems to hav gen through a period of vandalism in th latter part of th eighteenth and early part of th nineteenth century, when Its chief idea was to rid itself as completely and as rapidly as possible of the old graveyard and all that waa in it. wbov and below th ground. '. I d not know that I hav ever come across any more ruthless treatment than this that Hingham gave to th grave of th men and women who had broken th first ground and put up th first houses and built the first church, a well as the church of which they ar o proud todsv. They wanted the lend, wanted It for shop and an easier approach to th bluffs beyond, so they hacked down th Into hill, dumping bone and headstone something like a garbage heap, as they went. Hinham' boys and girls of th early nineteenth century remember ths old burial ground aa a cow pasture, wita exercise the mind If they do hot entertain it. There la a curious Ulna of pleasure in horrors, snd no doubt the orgies of terror, in which ths early Puritans indulged had tneir laacinauon. Their r: Irion, loo. waa not of a kind which made niefrTtnxprelve or servila Under Peter Hobart s le&oersnip, maeea. Samuel had it was just the opposite. been but a few years in Hingham when enlivened was town1 the by a quarrel with the general court, a sort of colonial council at, Boston, which set them all by the ears-- a teat most necessary at the moment of how far central authority was to mierrere wun local auinoruy. The trouble arose over the eaptalncy of Hlngham'a company of militia. The th majority of the town foil out withsome man who had held th position for timevand elected a successor. Th gen- refused to ratify. Peter Hoeral court haxt ledTn-- a revolt asrainst thla decision, and signed a petition asking reconsideration. Governor Wlnthrop and the mag istrate reaented this Questioning of their authoritv. There waa a trial a trial led which went against Hingham and clti-en, to th fining of a number of the Hobart Peter Hobart among them, was loud in contempt; there was no reason for th fin, hs said, except that h had s'gned a petition, and he hinted that th the general court waa goinf beyond Its charter, not only in thla powers ofAtVWH-hut an of this, of course, enlv etlffened the backs of th authorities. Hobart was a marked man. On a later occasion, when the ministers of ths colony had been summoned to consultation, fa wa ordered out of the meeting. And again. when a great marrtag of a former Hingham resdent waa to be solemmfled at Boston, and Hobart was asked to come him and preach, the magistrate sent home. The reason they gave was that he was a "bold man and would speak . his mind." In Ths quarrel was a long tlmbacked UP Th mlnoritv which th central authorltiea claimed that the a'.ons ftr nnlo - w i ( New, I f.ve-acr- Ptr TARDELL ' ': . M.- - 1923. Copyright oty. se ' inrAmerica. Samuel used, w can see today wtih certainty what they w ere like iu the town's exceuent museum. In Hingham. as 1n all of the Massachusetts colonie of tlvat day, the minister waa the rt-- l ng spirit. The character, the Intelligence, the tolerance or intolerance of the community depended largely upon him. When a man waa a member of the church for he had no standing in the community if he was not a member, not even being sllowed to rot In civil affairs he thinking and actions were largely shaped by the minister. Luckily for Samuel, and I think for his descendants, the minister under whom he sat was far and away from Th being the worst of the Puritan Rev. Peter I ion art had an Independent liberal mind than sp.ritmenand a mors at the head of the government th and many of th ministers of th colonies. He was devoted to his parish. Much of ths llttl evidence of documentary what6wnt on In the town in Samuel's dav eomes from Peter Hobart's habit of from day setting down what happened aone to day. Mis oiary, careiuuy up in red morooco, ha found a safe piae in th f4ea of the Massachusetts Historical It Is a book well worth looking at bound In wtsened leather, a homemade binding, I take It, from th way the leather Is folded over tn pastenoaro cover and from th narrow leather thongs Communion service used In Samuel that bind it a wonderful thing to get Lincoln's time la the Old Ship your handa on If you ear for Ink and church at Hingham, Mac. Photopaper and th way they atand up under time- - I hav aeen two manuscript copies graph gpedaJly taken for first pubrof Peter Hobart'a diary, th on made lication ia this series. perhaps forty, th other fifty, years ago. and in both of them th ink and paper and old, compared te th origThomas, a bachelor, died and left every- are faded first inal, th ntry of which waa mad thing he had to Samuel. It helped him at 2S7 vears ro. with the Intro least e to buy a tract of land in one ''J with- my wife and remark: of the beet locations along the brooK, ductory safely- to New t,ng as one can see, going into Hingham four childre came : forever .praysed b todav. As vou com In on the train land June ye 15; my of god and king." Heaven, th Boston cannot god from miss, looking you Cm everv mage of the book one almost out at the right, a glittering whit statue died a Lincoln a married, finds born, in beau a of Daniel Webster, standing are populous, growing line. These war not The tifully kept flower garden. for to means, to any kin Samuel, by the fields once owned to Samuel Lin all coln, and up the street a little further Hingham ther had come lust before or did he other Lincoln, distantly. stands, an old house on th sit of thof if at all, related. Indeed, ther were at on that he built in lilt. Nothing of th name sturdy setjier the original is left exoept some o( toe least ight Todav- - as tn Samuel s day. the timbers. Into this house Samuel took a wife. most frequent name In th town records the telephone All that we know of her Is that her of Hingham Including nam waa Martha. A ftlc problem for book i Lincoln. Th fact that Samuel Lincoln was and Ambitious young genealogists 4s to solve the family name of th woman that Sam- remained a church member throughout She must have hla life is proof enough that he walked uel Lincoln married. was been a vigorous woman, for shs was a straight and narrow path. Life Hobart chief duty th a serious matter under to th solendidly equal settlement of a new country lays on a matter of strictest rules, tnat tne e. ' By IDA ather His two ih existence which we can- - say with any dertainty were one In their hands. These are a big and a tittle wooden mortar, w.th their pestles, owned, as is proper, by descendants of one of the But If ws early Hingham L:ncolns. cannot put our hands on th chairs, the tables, the bedstesds and coverlets, th Dutch oven-an- d fork, the wooden porringer, the toasting plates and saucer that tion of their migration, and it was these things, fought ever year after year, that had broken down old institutions, destroyed industries, driven out much of the skilled management that heretofore had directed affairs, until finally the whole agricultural machine, particularly tern part of- England, had been of th thrown into such confusion that was almost impossible. Th group that Samuel Joined in New Hingham left Old Hingham largely because they were no longer able to earn a decent living there. But there was much mors with Sam. uel. and probably most of the young. There waa adventure. What mors royal adventure has the world ever offered than this of cros.ng a mysterious ocean to a continent only a tragment or wnos shore line had been charted a continent Inhabited by a strange people continent where, so It waa believed, ther was fabulous wealth for U taking? oo rains tn At th time or Samuel Im- . I 1923. v ;. '., ,. there . ,. ,J". , , ... ., .. , J- - along these from Salem harbor. at from Salem Into Last photograph, of PrwldsnLliicoln, taken a few month before his death. What a Hingham bay to take before man had came down slashed the great timber that to the very water's edge of many a Hingham "Plantation," as th settle- st Enoch Hobart's: th case set down in a numerical alphabet he sometimes promontory and Island, .before he had ment! were called,werenumbered perhaps seitzed the rocks' and bluffs of Boston fifty people ther only about 14,000 used of a hasty marriage, a premature colonies. in all the New England Every birth, th kind of thing that proves to harbor for his lights snd marks, his this number Increased, and what us that , the Puritans, with all their guns and forts, his factories and chim month was of interest to Samuel wa that he sevarity, never succeeded in suppressr.evs. ing drunkenness or immorality makes The bay Into which Samuel came Is knew so many of the people that came. Tou Most important of all these early ar- us auspicious. Indeed, that that very seone of rare Interest and beauty. the was Peok. Robert of rivals that may have stimulated what they make it coming from the north by turn who had baptised him back In verity soflght to root out. ing aroundwe the tip of that curved finger minister 1622 had in England and who brought It humanizes one's Idea of Hingham know as Hull. Across its of land way. no little to know that there wer men water to the south lies a cove. Bare him up in th sternestone Puritan ef the most of Daniel Cuahirig's JoumaMstle bent in cove, the first settlers called It, and it Robert Peck had ofbeen who the community. bis faith on Samuel Lincoln and h was Into this that the vessel on which uncompromising to disobey must hav talked over things in th Samuel was a passenger made its way. could be counted on boldly wrhlch did he of of order a town bishop many a day, much in the fashion, Bare cove ran up between two high any preach In a I fancy, that a couple of hundred years Muffs in those days, a snug and shel- not approve. He would not "Book later, a tered spot, where now are asphalted surplice. He would not read the was to gossip and disSport" which the church authorltiea cuss ofin Samuel's streets, railroad tracks, rows of housesg of a country store of southwestern thought would be good for the Puritans and shops. Indeed, one of the most into aeventeenth a a Indiana, country store over which he century attempt things for a sightseer in Hingham into presided in New Salem. IU., and later and troduce the continental Sunday contoday ia to read on a tablet, high autonot would he store on the square in England. Particularly still, in a dry, above a street along which was 111. table be re Springfield, drug Daniel Cushing mobiles run. and a block and more awsy sent that the communion nav of the church Just about tne earn Kina oi man u from the present wharf, the fact that moved from the could it all to reach It. in found Lincoln where Abraham with that everybody Peter Hofbart. about whom we are to me vim w tne town. piacAnd oi nonor in i 1834. hear later, debarked on that spot In I xormer In arch chancel. When Samuel' Unooln th arrived when, Hing September, 163J. nimwou strong enousu ham it waa Uttle more than a collection Samuel hardly etoppeo. now even, to Disnop uiougni to force of log houses, strung along a brook and ecclesiastically look about him in hie first moment. It politically r tabi back into iu old place, and wntcn riowea into me eaa or had been montha now since he left Old the ok of those clear, musical. New Eng th order was carried out in th Old Hingham. and In that time he had seen in rose over Peck th Robert down few old friends; but here, 'awaiting him rLngham church, and called his parish- land brooks, bounding recks, through narrow meadows of high on the wharf were many, among them holy indignation undoubt is llttl together. InTher lush grass a brook whteh today two of his brothers, Thomas, the oldest ioners waa the rrouD. or on Its happily on would not know waa in x- of the family, a weaver; his brother that Samuelthat from altar the own w so tnorougniy aa dragged older outskirts, or lstenoe, two three years Daniel, only Its new piace, xrippeo it. or ics ruuing in for the convenience of the town, then hunaelf. and with them a cousin, settle lowered the which candles, and the nttle and in Th men actually of valley All these three Nicholas Jacob. chancel several Inches below ment ley was narrow, tep bulla rising had been in the Massachusetts colony floor of the timber-prim- eval with nave. clothed th of each on were that side, nearly four years, and already timber oak, hemlock, walnut Robert Peck had to pay th price of householders and landholders in New ...-hi continued revolting. He waa stripped shagbark, ssh, beech, cedar, elm, wonder Hingham. WOOOS tO WOrK wiuu There excommunicated. ful brothers these of xyjm iivm wic were his here living they Why of houses, to the south of of his this cousin? Why was this tiny wa nothing for him to do, so he thought. main group "on stood the an eminence," the brook, new from to of ma.de tn New Hingham up but to follow tn Puritans people c"hurch. of logs, thatched, and. soon after Old Hingham T We have been taught world. surrounded to b by a And thla h did in im. landing only Samuel's arrival, to say that it was because they sought Ood S few months after Samuel a plan in which they could worship own palisad. His going naa ceen a areaarui ks te of th first thing Samuel naa On according to the dictates of their eonsoteno. It la an lnoomplet expla- Old Hingham. But what ws a tragedy to learn was why it was necessary to nation. to Old Hingham was a blessing to New. have a citadel in tni ireiia wettiemwni, their first and whv military service wa required of True, these people that Samuel had tor Robert Peck became Joined and their forebears for genera- teacher, and to see him going an and out everyone, that had reached his age and tions had been struggling tn England to among th utue nouses ot rew Hinc-hamrih. The settlers then and indeed must have done much to make life through all hi life had to keep the esoape the tyranny of priests and prelates. to secur th right to own and read mora natural for young Samuel. Indian constantly in mrao. oaniuw Another early arrival that meant much not allowed to go a mile frem.hi home th Bible, to interpret tt In their own war. to mak and aav their own prayers, to Samuel wa that of Daniel Cushmg, without hla musket. When, he went to and to do awav with th complicated a young man near hi own. age, with church or to a town meeting he must There was a compensating ceremonial that. In their Judgment, the whom he had no doubt gone to school go armed. whatever convenience, tor muiu and to church and played church bad substituted for righteouanea " had Robert Peck tolerated or neart. proper game der. psaslng freely for farthings. He Ther had been struggling, too. for a In Old Hingham. He wa a young man took his turn at the guard that was government In which they could have ef ambition, energy a very human per- set at atinset. H learned, too, the Ina full representation, for the right to run son, too. He ran a general tore, and dian - method of warfare, fighting behind town clerk, grew p,operoua To nerrect ner irmiua in nw. their own local affairs, to hold meetings, Th New most own in land. Hingham. their Influential imomve their school, in cucuhj ui Hinaham early lOTDao in Their struggle bad had it up and downs satisfactory record- of what want on tn the big timber In certain section i la Daniel Cush .knot for tralnlna our. v, and from the point of view of many of tha. town that w- hav which he not only poses. One "part of th furnishing of them was at this time almost hopeleea. tng" account book, in. bui Hingham church waa a barrel of powWhen Samuel left England it had bean set oown nis oauj itohwuw the since ther had been a meet many of ths doings of his neighbor eirht vears kept full. 8o at the very Mr. der, always abused aamiiol's life in the new world ing of- parliament, Charles I having abut time thai Israel hiaLeavett "base with wife and Norton the Qoors on its memoer in lOia. there was ths thrill of danger snd the All these things go into th explana- - epeeche"; th time Ms boy got drunk responsibility of doing hi part to meet it. first problem was to find Samuel' -- u Tiwn waa no chance for him at hla trade. A man could not be spared The eet- t tha.t moment for weaving. innm. what there were of them, women. But had been turned over to the If there was no work at hi trade, there waa plenty of other kindanou-.- It waa nip for the and tuck to raise corn enough fish, winter, to catch and salt new to cut wood for ths fire, to butld thepopu-latihouses that the rapid y Increasing New Hmgham waa demanded.. growing, and a strong young man waa in - , aall--th- . ' -, ,, be-a- m v- .n i.r' i There was work In near-b- y settlement too. when the town, consented that Ons There was Soituate, only about ten go miles to the . .southeast, everal years There were Brain tlian ier There tre. . and Hull, near neighbors. m, ttnatnn. raoidlv arowing. and de timbers, planks, boarda Ther mending unav., - shinvards at various points. maats. Then, too, a lively to take ready exchange of commodities wa soon togoing the on with the English settlements south in Virginia and the West Indlea chances In the reckoning We often forget that th New England settlers had for market provided by trade, the excellentin the Barbadoes, Bertheir own people New Providence. muda, St Kits. Old andwhen Samuel LinAs a 'matter of fact coln began hla business career In New as many wer times Htne-halour there English people in the south snd the West New all of EngIndion colonies as in land. Lincoln's Samuel brother, In 1S44 Mine-ham- J Tire-plac- hearth as uus front the old ordinary at Bin giant, Maw. ua isuuv v- ninmw muivwu u It was around such a - Old meeting house in Hingham, Mas., built in 1681, known m the "Old Ship church," the tradition being that ite frame wa made of ship timbers. BunueJ Lincoln contributed to . the building of this church, and attended it with his family t the time of his death. women, th bearing of many healthy children. Her first eon was born in 1650 and baptised Samuel. In twentv. thre years Martha brourht into th world 1vb children. Advocate of birth control may raise their handa In horror and expect to find record of death ac Thrsa of companying those ef birth. Martha' children did not grow up, but for lived seventy years er there eight And as Martha herself, about. ah outlived Samuel, dying in 1691. i nougn mere ia nothing out a few old tembera left of the home in which Samuel nd Martha reared their family, it la not difficult to reconstruct tt. A hous of tcut timbers, th very heart of which wa in great nrepiace. with its wide hearth and deep oven, it shelf for dishes and cranes for nots. its curved settees at e'.thor side, a candle shelf in th mid dle of each high oack, making cosy ingle, nooks for the children snd their ldrs. Before this flreplac food wss prepared and eaten. Before It th family gathered to carry on a seer of simple industries. Before it they talked, popped their corn and melted ttmir maple sugar. Before tt, too, they knelt morning and night for prayer. No doubt among th Iron and peter so and wooden utensils preserved today careiuuy in .New f.ng.ana Dy descendants of the settlers there ar articles that Samuel and Martha used; but so far aa I hav been able to find, ther ar only j.. k , ' , . j' -- ; - v., '. ' - "'- , ,. - "... . " A ;, ... ,.,i,tn.,... ... C. r . m n . I r - 4. . 4 2-- . heap of broken coffins, fragments of shroud and oocaying nones seatTerea about They played push ball on th flat and fought Indian battle tombstone among th graves of tbair fathers. Th old late headstones, on of which undoubtedly belonged to Ssmuel, were many of them aold. Ther ar at least two ch'mnsvs to be seen in Hingham known that headtoday in which It Iswas told on a visit stone want and I mat oniy a imm to th town in Mm ViAfnm when renairs war making on th old dy house, th great doorstep a fin piec ot atone was turner oT.lv to iliermver that It was the "head stone of on of th Rev. Peter Hobart s family. But Samuel Lincoln, though dead and hi bone unhonored, did not pas out of the Jif of New Hingham. H left behind four son, grown, and four daughters. These children he had seen married into the best of Hinghara's fam-W- e. In the old horn In which he 'died hi oldest son. his namesake, wss living, and there, sitting at the firesid. wa. He wa not to hi grandson, Samuel. know It, but tt ws to b true, that out of the line of thta oldost son war to coma some of th most distinguished of New England a oitlsema, among them thre governor of commonwealth. . He wa not to know, but It was true, that from another of his son, the on whose now make, was to acqualntauc w must wa to contribute com th man who - a any a muchany man which tothis orsoluthe has produced othrofcountry those tangled problems of liberty tion th poor, snd 'authority, of th rich andwith which of tolerance and Intolerance, thooe he had been forced to graPPl rly day. (Th next articl win deal wifii LinLincoln, fourth son of Samuel of coln and Abraham Lincoln.) lz ot. WO' J J. UaJ A. to the new of Samuel Lincoln from smallpox. Photograph specially taken for first publication la this ' ' series. . Above Entry In the Her. Peter Hobart's diary of his coming world. Below Entry in Daniel Cushing 's account book of death - . church authorities saw to it that you obeyed or knew the reason why. There waa no etcap from church going, for vry Sunday morning a church officer went from house, to house, running in idlers. There was no sleeping In church, watchfor at everv service a hawk-eye- d man st in th rear of th great bar man who room, knocking the head of any dozed with a pole, tickling the ear Tou of any woman ' with a feather. must at least appear to listen to Peter sermons on fallen Hobart's two-homan, an angry God, election, damnation, eternal fire. Severe and forbidding a It all sounds, life must have been. In the main, healthy and full of interest Theological discus- - - development of Hingham waa seriously in lured oy it spirit of revolt. .However what they msy have lost in tMa waa gained in a vigorous spirit which con- tmuea unairsia to cnauengs even- eccteai ast authority If its right wr in' vaded. Just as Simue! Lincoln wss obliged to consider wher local authority should end and central authority begin, so he was early obliged to consider that stand in Question of the relaUv rights ef rich and poor. Almost immediately the ettlers-and unenfranchised they mad s of th peopl had lined up themselves uo against th ruliwt few. Again snd again th struggle shows itself tn the record of th doing of th mag trates. A classical eias is that of Mrs. Shr man, who had lost a sow. Runaway animals, particularly pigs, war on of th chief annoyance of tn eariy setuers. and It is not to be wondered, at that a waa often captured and confined by stray nuaoanaman tne prosperous enougn w provide himself with pens. Mrs. Sher man had no pen, and she orougnt suit she believed. againat a neighbor who, sne naa iosi. bad captured the animal In csss seemed to Th documents the enow that th lady did not have aatia- na evidence tnai ina row ractory wa tn spite of claimed hers, and by her shs was thla the deputies stood wss rich. poor, the man she sued pum. nr Indians, q&mnation, imam rich, against the poor, th tyranny of we tnese tne ques the general court ion.w tions tnat Bamuei unooin w "decide to ronalder and questions that mind active and hla hie neighbor ' kept not altogether peaceiui suojecis, out stout ones, fit for men, bound to develop character. grip, ITnhanrillr. not all of the Hingham d!- cusslona in which Samuel Lincoln must have taken part were a wormy in as these. In the later yeara of hi life Hingham was' rent in twain by row over tne ait or a new cnurcn a common enough happening among the comPuritane. IrMeed, Cotton Mather rebuildplain that in the colonies "the of meeting houses un ing anil fitted neighbor for lifting up pure handa without wrath in those houses." It cerdid so in Hingham tainlynew A meeting house had beeom necthat it would essary. It was estimated could b gotten 50. beslds what cost In 1W0 a subfor the old building. 143 to which was taken up scription Samuel and members put their names. This beautiful font is in ths new church at Cohaaaet, Mass, It is a hla eons did very well, putting In, 5. like Then from the remains of the font in which Btrauel Lincoln and many- of the came thethem, something question of th site. It wn earliest Hingham settlers were christened. The remains were a gift from the to be changed, and there waa sharp director and vestry of the church in Hingham, old England, to that of Cohasset. vision cf opinion. In 18S! the constable took a vote "for another place to act ye Photograph specially taken for first publication in tius series. , J. '''.. 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After you have used tt and it has proved Itsf f mrans i( to be that of rlieumw- getting rid of such form tim, you may s;nd the pr'cs of is. one dollar, but unoerstan.t, 1 do si'it want your mone'y unki( you are, perfectly satisfied to send It. Isn't fair? Why suffer sny hn is thus oftered you iree? liwi't delay. Write to.iiiy. Mark H. Jackson. No. ISt-JSyracuse, N. Y. Mr. Jackson ia rvsponslbls. sub-acu- iul j. l'i:r statement true. tnt v-li- |