Excerpt from The New England Meeting House With a History of the Congregational Meeting Houses in Hollis, N. H: A Discourse on the Centennial Anniversary of the Building of the Present Meeting House We have in this state today, in present use, at least seventeen meeting houses that were erected previous to 1800, the earliest being that at Newington, built between 1710 and 1713. The first church in Derry, the spire of which can be seen on a clear day from the Pepperell road. 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.