The following is an entry on Scouting, from “History of Weymouth Massachusetts In Four Volumes, Published by the Weymouth Historical Society in 1923, Vol. 2, Page 678
In 1911 Rev. Walter H. Commons, who was then the pastor of the Congregational Church, East Weymouth, after reading the Boy Scout Handbook, edited by Gen. Baden Powell, decided that such an organization would be valuable training for the young boys in his parish. He therefore organized a scout troop and asked Mr. Ernest C. Smith of East Weymouth to be scoutmaster. Rev. Robert Cochran, pastor of the Union Congregational Church of Weymouth and Braintree, had, however, applied for a commission previous to this. He never got to the point of organizing a troop, but his commission was issued before that of Mr. Smith. The troop in East Weymouth Congregational Church was numbered Troop 2, although it is really the oldest organized troop in town. Troop 2 has a continued existence up to the present day, and now has twenty-two boys, with Mr. Albin Johnson as scoutmaster.
In 1917 Weymouth was joined with the towns of Avon, Braintree, Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Scituate, Randolph and Holbrook and formed the Old Colony Council, with an employed executive, Mr. Harold Converse. Mr. Converse was succeeded by Mr. Howard M. Clark, who was in turn succeeded by Mr. Duncan MacKellar.
