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Hingham is a Saxon name. As early as 925 A.D. it is recorded as the property of King
Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great. Clear indication of its former riches is
provided by the 14th century parish church of St. Andrews although most of the
existing houses are 18th Century.
It has a daughter town in Hingham, Massachusetts. This name was given in 1635 to a settlement
founded by Puritan emigrants from Norfolk at Bare Cove on Massachusetts Bay, a few miles
south from the present city of Boston. Among the first emigrants from Hingham were members
of the Lincoln family, who owned land in Hingham and Swanton Morley and have entries in the
Hingham parish register. Samuel Lincoln (the direct ancestor of Abraham Lincoln) was baptised
in Hingham church and in 1637, at the age of 15, he emigrated with his employer amd family
from one Hingham to the other.
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