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The current minister is Kenneth Read-Brown, a descendant of Rev. Peter Hobart. [14] The congregation is Unitarian Universalist and is a Welcoming Congregation.Some of the meetinghouse furnishings still in use date to its founding: Old Ship's christening bowl, for instance, was made before 1600 and was likely brought to the Massachusetts Bay Colony by emigrants from Hingham, England.
The Old Meeting House, which is at the heart of the Meetinghouse Common District, is the second oldest Puritan Congregationalist meeting house still standing in Massachusetts, after the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham built in 1681. [4]
Old Ship Church, 1681, Hingham, Massachusetts. Deacon John Leavitt (1608–1691) was a tailor, public officeholder, and founding deacon of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America and the oldest church in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States.
Hingham (/ ˈ h ɪ ŋ ə m / HING-əm) is a town in northern Plymouth County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Part of the Greater Boston region, it is located on the South Shore of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. [5] Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on Boston Harbor.
Third Haven Meeting House: Talbot County, Maryland: MD 1681–84 Quaker (Friends) Oldest Quaker meeting house in the United States. Old Ship Church: Hingham, Massachusetts: MA 1681 Puritan, Congregational, now Unitarian Universalist Only remaining 17th-century Puritan meetinghouse in the US. [3] St. Luke's Church: Smithfield, Virginia: VA 1682
The Leavitt family of Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, is an American family which descends from deacon John Leavitt (1608-1691), an English Puritan tailor who settled first at Dorchester (Boston), and later at Hingham, where he served as founding deacon of Old Ship Church, a Puritan meetinghouse that is the oldest church in continuous ecclesiastical use in America.
William Sprague (October 26, 1609 – October 26, 1675 in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony) left England on the ship Lyon's Whelp for Plymouth/Salem Massachusetts. He was originally from Upwey, near Weymouth, Dorset, England. Sprague arrived at Naumkeag (Salem) in mid-July 1629 with his brothers Ralph and Richard.
John Strong (1610–1699) was an English-born New England colonist, politician, Puritan church leader, tanner, and one of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut, and Northampton, Massachusetts, as well as the progenitor of nearly all the Strong families in what is now the United States. He was referred to as Elder John Strong because he was an ...