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After several decades of commuting to Hingham to attend church, school, and town meetings, Cohasset became a precinct in 1717, with the right to have its own church and school. Finally, in 1770, it was incorporated as a separate town and could now govern itself independently of Hingham.
Cohasset became a town separate from Hingham in 1770, 100 years later. Previously, what is today the town of Cohasset was known as Hingham's Second Parish. Cohasset was originally part of Suffolk County, and when the southern part of the county was set off as Norfolk County in 1793, it included the towns of Cohasset, Hingham and Hull.
Cohasset was originally a part of Hingham, which was settled and incorporated in 1635. The area of Cohasset was common land in the early years; but the salt marshes, being clear of forest and with hay ready to be cut, were of particular value and began to be divided as early as 1647.
Cohasset, town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along Massachusetts Bay, about 20 miles (30 km) southeast of Boston. Captain John Smith supposedly landed there in 1614, and the site, settled about 1647, was a part of Hingham until its incorporation in 1770.
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The origins of Cohasset were with the town of Hingham. It was known as that town's 2nd precinct or 2nd parish and labeled East Hingham. It is said the town was found as early as 1614 when Captain John Smith was exploring the coast of New England.
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Cohasset once was Hingham’s Second Precinct and Second Parish before it became a separate town in the year 1770, some 135 years after the establishing of the parent settlement at Bare Cove. Not until 1670 had the upland areas of East Hingham, or Conahasset, been divided up among Hingham landowners.
For two centuries Cohasset had been an agricultural and maritime community, with shipbuilding, fishing, and commerce as its main industries. By the time the town's history was being written, however, far-reaching changes had already begun.
