Reverend Peter HOBART

1604 - 1679  (74 years)

• Name	Peter HOBART
  Title	Reverend
  Birth	16 Oct 1604	Hingham, Norfolk, England
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	1635	Charlestown, Massachusetts (a part of Boston)
  Death	20 Jan 1679	Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts
  Burial	Old Ship Church Burying Ground, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - Plot Sec B, Plot 44, Lot 7
  Notes	Graduated from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, Peter became a Puritan Pastor. He had eighteen children by two wives. "The first minister of the Hingham congregation who built the Old Ship Church was the Rev. Peter Hobart, who had attended what was then Puritan-dominated University of Cambridge. Natives of Hingham in the county of Norfolk in East Anglia, England, Peter Hobart, his father Edmund and his brother Capt. Joshua Hobart were among Hingham's most prominent early settlers. Edmund Hobart and his wife Margaret (Dewey), said Cotton Mather, "were eminent for piety...and feared God above many." Assisting Hobart in the foundation of the congregation was Rev. Robert Peck, Hobart's senior and formerly rector of St. Andrew's Church in Hingham, Norfolk. After 44 years of service, minister Peter Hobart died on January 20, 1679, on the eve of the building of the new house of worship. Hobart's diary of events in Hingham, begun in the year 1635, was continued on his death by his son David. By the time Old Ship was built, Harvard-educated Rev. John Norton, who had been ordained by Peter Hobart, had assumed Hobart's ministry. While Rev. Norton was the first pastor of the congregation at its new home in Old Ship Church, Rev. Peter Hobart was the founder of the congregation, although he died before the new meetinghouse was finished." Wikipedia Suffolk County was formed in 1643 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Plymouth County was formed in 1685 from the Plymouth Colony Hingham was chartered in 1635, formerly called Bare Cove Suffolk and Plymouth County lines were redrawn in 1803, resulting in Hingham being in Plymouth County
  Person ID	I85811	Zentmeyer Main Tree
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	Edmund HOBART, Sr.,   b. 1574, Hingham, Norfolk, England d. 8 Mar 1646, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Margaret DEWEY   d. Bef Oct 1634
  Marriage	7 Sep 1600	Hingham, Norfolk, England
  Family ID	F23213	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth IBROOK,   b. 31 Aug 1608, Southwold, Suffolk, England d. Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts - in childbirth (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	3 Jul 1628	Hingham, Norfolk, England
  Children	1. Reverend Joshua HOBART,   b. Jul 1629, Hingham, Norfolk, England d. 28 Feb 1716, Southold, Suffolk, New York (Age 86 years)   2. Reverend Jeremiah HOBART,   b. 6 Apr 1630, Southwold, Waveney District, Suffolk, England d. 6 Nov 1715, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 85 years)   3. Elizabeth HOBART,   b. 1632, England d. 26 Mar 1692, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 60 years)   4. Josiah HOBART,   b. 1634, England d. 1711, East Hampton, Long Island, New York (Age 77 years)   5. Ichabod HOBART,   b. 3 Oct 1635, Charlestown, Masssachusetts d. Jul 1636, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 0 years)   6. Hannah HOBART,   b. 30 Apr 1637, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 19 May 1637, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 0 years)   7. Hannah HOBART,   b. 16 May 1638, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 11 Sep 1691, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 53 years)   8. Bathsheba HOBART,   b. 28 Sep 1640, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 14 Apr 1724, Norwell, Suffolk (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 83 years)   9. Israel HOBART,   b. 29 Jun 1642, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 3 Jul 1731, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 89 years)   10. Jael HOBART,   b. 28 Dec 1643, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 14 Apr 1730, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 86 years) + 11. Reverend Gershom HOBART, Sr.,   b. Dec 1645, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 19 Dec 1707, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F1162	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Rebecca PECK,   b. 25 May 1620, Hingham, Norfolk, England d. 9 Sep 1693, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 73 years)
  Children	1. Japhet HOBART,   b. 4 Apr 1647, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. Bef 1670, Presumed lost at sea (Age 22 years)   2. Rev. Nehemiah HOBART,   b. 21 Nov 1648, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 25 Aug 1712, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 63 years)   3. David HOBART,   b. 7 Aug 1651, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 21 Aug 1717, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 66 years)   4. Rebeckah HOBART,   b. 9 Apr 1654, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 8 Apr 1727, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 72 years)   5. Abagail HOBART,   c. 2 Oct 1656, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts   6. Lediah HOBART,   b. 7 Jan 1659, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 18 Oct 1732, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 73 years)   7. Hezekiah HOBART,   b. 30 Aug 1661, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts d. 11 May 1662, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F1161	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2017

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Hingham Road Sign Apparently Hingham is halfway between Plymouth and Boston.
  		Plaque commemorating the arrival of Peter Hobart and his party in September 1635. Located at the corner of Ship St. and North St., Hingham. Peter Hobart had arrived in Boston earlier that year from Hingham, England and initially stayed in Charleston, a part of Boston.
  		Plaque commemorating Old Ship Church On the south side of Main St., next to the church.
  		Old Ship Church Image from the late 1800s by photographer Edwin N. Peabody
  		Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts This is the only surviving 17th-century Puritan meetinghouse, and it is the oldest church which has been continuously used for worship in the United States. The Basilica of Notre-Dame in Quebec City, Canada, which your webmaster and his wife visited in 2024 is actually older, having been constructed in 1647. The most distinctive feature of the Old Ship Church is its roof structure, which resembles a ship, which likely resulted in the name of the church. The structure has sometimes been identified as hammerbeam roof, which it is not.
  		Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts We visited the Old Ship Church in December of 2018.
  		Death Record for Peter Hobart In Hingham, Suffolk (now Plymouth) Massachusetts
  		Memorial Stone for Rev. Peter Hobart "In memory of Revd. Peter Hobart who died January 20th 1679 in the 75th year of his age and 53rd of his ministery 9 years of which he spent in Hingham Great Britain & 44 in Hingham, Massachusetts." Located in Old Ship Church Burying Ground, Hingham, Suffolk, (now Plymouth) Massachusetts Photo courtesy JLCraw
  		Rev. Peter Hobart Memorial Another view. Photo by Gary Zentmyer