. Historical collections of the state of New York : being a general collection of the most interesting facts, biographical sketches, varied descriptions, &c. relating to the past and present : with geographical descriptions of the counties, cities, and principal villages throughout the state . arly period there weresettlers upon the Minisink on the Delaware, who transported some val-uable minerals by the road along the Rondout to the North river. Thiscounty appears to have suffered more from Indian hostilities than anyother portion of the country while under the Dutch. The quarrelappears to ha
. Historical collections of the state of New York : being a general collection of the most interesting facts, biographical sketches, varied descriptions, &c. relating to the past and present : with geographical descriptions of the counties, cities, and principal villages throughout the state . arly period there weresettlers upon the Minisink on the Delaware, who transported some val-uable minerals by the road along the Rondout to the North river. Thiscounty appears to have suffered more from Indian hostilities than anyother portion of the country while under the Dutch. The quarrelappears to have arisen on account of an Indian woman being killedwhen stealing peaches from a garden. The county is divided into14 towns: Esopus, Marlborough, Rochester, Wawarsing, Hurley, New Paltz, Saugerties, Woodstock. Kingston, Olive, Shandaken, Marbletovra, Plattekill, Shawangunk, Kingston was one of the earliest Dutch settlements in the state, hav-ing commenced in the year 1616, and is said to have been the thirdplace settled in New York, In the year 1662, it had a settled min-ster, and the county records commence about that period. Kingstonvillage, formerly called Esopus, was incorporated in 1805. The fol-lowing engraving shows the appearance of the village as viewed from 342 ULSTER Eastern view of Kingston. from a dwelling house situated on a gentle enainence a few rods southof the Rondout road. The Catskill mountains are seen in the ex-treme distance. The village is regularly laid out on ten streets, andbeautifully situated on the fertile pine flats elevated about 40 feet abovethe Esopus creek. These flats commence at Kingston and extend toSaugerties, about ten or twelve miles, and are from two to two and ahalf miles in width. The village contains the county buildings, 1 DutchReformed, 1 Episcopal, 1 Methodist, and 1 Baptist church, .an acade-my, 2 banks, 3 newspaper establishments, a large iron foundry, andabout 275 dwellings, many of which are built of blue limestone. I
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