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. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . a mileand a half east of Shellsville, near the LebanonCounty line. It is a new place which sprang up sincethe war. It is a growing town, and has a large tradewith the surrounding country. The United Brethrenhave a neat church edifice and beautiful cemetery. Manada Furnace is in the northwest of the town-ship. It is owned by the Grubb heirs, and embracessome twenty-five hundred acres. It was built in 1836,but is not now in operation. Near it is the site ofold Fort Manada, ere
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . a mileand a half east of Shellsville, near the LebanonCounty line. It is a new place which sprang up sincethe war. It is a growing town, and has a large tradewith the surrounding country. The United Brethrenhave a neat church edifice and beautiful cemetery. Manada Furnace is in the northwest of the town-ship. It is owned by the Grubb heirs, and embracessome twenty-five hundred acres. It was built in 1836,but is not now in operation. Near it is the site ofold Fort Manada, erected about 1755 for protectionagainst the Indians, and as a kind of block-house towhich the early settlers fled on the advance of thered men. The German Baptists have a meeting-house in thesoutheast end of the township, and the MethodistEpiscopal congregation are near the centre, just aboutthe proposed South Mountain Railroad. HANOVER eleven miles from Harrisburg, on BowCreek, was located old Hanover Church, one of thelandmarks in the history of the Scotch-Irish and ofPresbyterianism in HANOVER CHURCH. In 1735 the Presbytery of Donegal, then the onlyPresbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Americawest of Philadelphia, was in session at Nottingham,Chester Co., Pa., in the month of September. ThisPresbytery had been created by order of the Synodof Philadelphia in September, 1732. The originalmembers of it were Rev. Messrs. James Anderson,Adam Boyd, William Bertram, John Thomson, andRobert Orr. On the 3d of September, 1735, a sup-plication was presented from A people on theborders of Suetara Congregation, desiring the coun-tenance of Presbytery in building a new meeting-house in order to have supplies, which being read,the Rev. William Bertram, the pastor of the Swatara congregation, reported that his people desired him tosignify to the Presbytery that they desire them todefer granting said supplication until they be matter was deferred until
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