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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.
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
It encompasses the earliest streets laid out in Hingham at the time of its founding in 1635, covering more than 300 years of development and a cross section of Hingham's architectural history. It includes some of the town's oldest buildings, including most notably the Old Ship Church and the General Benjamin Lincoln House , both National ...
Dr. Josiah Leavitt, descended from an early Puritan early settler of Hingham, was buried at Hingham, Massachusetts. Leavitt's second wife Azubah [25] died at Boston in November 1803 at age 44. [26] The Hingham meeting house Old Ship Church did not purchase an organ until 1869. Prior to that the congregants sang unaccompanied.
Oldest stone building in Massachusetts Coronet John Farnum Jr. House: Uxbridge: c. 1710: The Cornet John Farnum Jr. House was the site of the first Uxbridge Town Meeting in 1727. The house today is a museum and headquarters of the Uxbridge Historical Society. It is an excellent example of early New England colonial architecture. White–Ellery ...
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.