Samuel Sackett, about 1 740. u'j.oii the 2nd of January, 1739, ^^e find a deed for three acres of land given by Joseph Lane, Henry Beekman and Gertrude, his wife, unto Juli.-i Hyatt, John Haight and David Tra\is, trustees for the first Presbyterian church, on which land the meeting house was erected; (said' tliree acres being part of two hundred and twenty acres leased to Josepli Lar.c for three lives, 25th March, 1737,) dated 2nd of January, i'739, according to the act of 17 84, and the act of 1801.^

The following title occurs in an old hog skin record fonricrly in tlie possession of the Rev. Silas Constant:--

"A Record of the Proceedings of the Presbyterian Society of Hanover, from the seventh Day of Aug., in tlie Thirty Fourth year of the Ileieu of our Sovcrci -:i Lord George tlie Second l,y the Grace of God of Great JJntahi, France, Iroiatll &c., and in the year of our Lord Christ one Thousand and seven Hundred and sixty. An. Doai. 1760. 'V'

On the 26th of May, 17S4, this Society was incorporated mider the name and title of the -^ First Presbyterian Society, upon the plan of the Church of Scotland." Aaron Furman, Gilbert Travis, Ebenezer White. Elijah Lee. Henry Strong and Gabriel Carman, trustees; elected ^d of May, 17S4. A re-incorporation of the same occurs on the 4th of Mr.rch. i8o6.<^'

The P)-esbyterian Church is handsomely located on the highest ground of the \-iHagc, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country ; it was built in 1799, on the site of an older edifice erected cir. 173S. and destroyed by fire in June or July, 1799. The late Thomas Strong testified "that when the British, under Abercrombie, came to Crompoud and burnt Strong's house, it was in the afternoon.