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

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I am informed that the first in town were located farther west than the present ones on the west side, — nearly as far as the town pump ; that they were so narrow as to accommodate a horse only, as in those days people came to church on horseback. The first reference to them in the records that has been found is in 1826, when it was "voted that individuals have liberty to build horse sheds near the meeting house, under the direction of the selectmen, where they now stand," and a committee was d...rafted to draw plans. If the language of the last words refers to the sheds, and not to the selectmen, it would ap- pear that some were already on the ground, and that this action referred to new ones. In 1828 another committee was appointed to find land on which to build. In 1829 it was "voted that the selectmen sell at auction the ground formerly occupied as horse sheds west of the meeting house extending from the corner of the burying ground south, and so much land in addition as may be necessary for new stables, to the citizens of Hollis and no other ; that the selectmen sell at auction the ground formerly occupied by horse sheds extending west from the south end of the ground above described to the citizens of Hollis and to no other, for the express purpose of building horse sheds thereon ; and if ground cannot be obtained of Henry Price 21 for the purpose of making' such sheds of a suitable depth, that those who may build sheds have four feet of ground from the road, the town discontinuing the same as highway on condition that they procure land of Mr.

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