Identifier: hinghamstoryofit00daug (find matches)
Title: Hingham : a story of its early settlement and life, its ancient landmarks, its historic sites and buildings
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Daughters of the American Revolution. Old Colony Chapter (Hingham, Mass.)
Subjects: Hingham (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: (Hingham? Mass.) : Old Colony Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ur forbears. The scene of that and some other stories islaid in our vicinity. In one of them is a detailed experience ofMrs. Rowson in her childhood, on the occasion of a skirmishbetween some American soldiers, who rowed from Hull to theBoston lio-hthouse and burnt it, and the British sailors andmarines who pursued them. The death and burial of one of thelatter, which the child herself witnessed, made a deep impressionon her mind. Mrs. Rowson and her husband, who was a singer of somenote, went upon the stage in England, and later in Philadelphia,and still later in the old Federal Street Theatre in Boston. Leav-ins: the stag:e Mrs. Rowson became a teacher in Medford, and stilllater had a very successful and fashionable young ladies schoolin Boston. Among her pupils were the daughters of leadingBoston families, a list of whose names survives and recalls theancient flavor of its best citizens. She was also a prolific writerof verse, much of which was published. She died in Boston in1824.
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> DC< Q DCO UJ X COLONIAL HOUSES. 95 The Tower House, — This house stands on the east side ofMain Street near the brook that runs between Hingham Centreand South Hingham. It was liuilt by John Tower, an originalsettler, near the middle of the seventeenth century. A well dugby him is still in use. The house has been in possession of hisdirect descendants ever since, and although additions and repairshave been made, the original structure is still standing and con-stitutes a part of the Tow^er homestead to-day. It has been putin excellent condition and is a picturesque feature. Two yearsago in May the descendants of John Tower formed a familyTower Association, and in large numbers celebrated the threehundredth anniversary of his birth. The Old Ordinary.— The tavern or Old Ordinary, thethird oldest house in Hingham, stands on a low hill just off theBoston Turnpike. The land was granted to Joseph Andrews onthe settlement of the town in 1635, and here the main portionof the house

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