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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]
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
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.
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.
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.
Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) ... Hingham, Massachusetts; New Haven v. Thomas Hogg ... Old Meeting House (Marblehead) Old Ship Church;
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 ...