Note 99 — WEYMOUTH IN ITS FIRST TWENTY YEARS. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY, NOVEMBER, 1882,

The Old North Church of Weymouth was organized Jan. 30, 1638/9. The diary of the Rev. Peter Hobart, the minister at Hingham, Mass., from 1635 to 1679, reads: “Jan. 30, 1639, [N. S.] A church gathered at Weymouth.” (From a paper on “The Organization of the Old North Church of Weymouth,” read before the Weymouth Historical Society, Feb. 24, 1904, by George W. Chamberlain, and published in the Weymouth Gazette, March 18, following.)