He also antagonized ecclesiastical authorities with other forbidden practices.
Peck lowered the chancel railing of the church, in accord with Puritan sentiment that the Anglican church of the day was too removed from its parishioners. Francis Blomefield called his "violent schismatical spirit". Peck was known for what the eminent Norfolk historian Rev. Robert Peck, when they fell afoul of the strict doctrines of Anglican England. Many of the original founders were forced to flee their native town in Norfolk with both their vicars, Rev. A statue of President Lincoln adorns the area adjacent to downtown Hingham Square. The town was named for Hingham, a market town in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, whence most of the first colonists came, including Abraham Lincoln's ancestor Samuel Lincoln (1622–1690), his first American ancestor, who came to Massachusetts in 1637. The eastern part of the town split off to become Cohasset in 1770.
The town was within Suffolk County from its founding in 1643 until 1803, and Plymouth County from 1803 to the present. The town of Hingham was dubbed "Bare Cove" by the first colonizing English in 1633, but two years later was incorporated as a town under the name "Hingham." The land on which Hingham was settled was deeded to the English by the Wampanoag sachem Wompatuck in 1655. The Old Ordinary is an early Hingham tavern that was donated to the Hingham Historical Society by Hingham philanthropist Wilmon Brewer.
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