Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church Paxtang, Derry and Manada, afterwards known as Hanover, were at this time under the pastoral care of Rev. Mr. Bertram, making a very large and widely scattered congregation. The meeting houses were at Paxtang and Derry, but as new settlers came in, and new lands were taken up, the boundaries of the congregation enlarged, and new meeting houses were needed. The people of Manada were settled along Manada creek, towards the Kittatinny or Blue Hills eastward and northward. The district covered by Mr. Bertram's charge Gwas from fifteen to twenty-five miles in length and breadth, reaching from the Conewago creek to the mountains, and embracing all the people east of the Susquehanna, beyond the western line of the Donegal congregation, Rev. Mr. Anderson's. It was by com mon consent a law of the times, that meeting houses should be about ten miles apart, so that the people might not be compelled to travel too far for Sabbath worship. The formation of new congregations was often a matter of diiliculty and much dispute, as was also the location of new meeting houses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.