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The Minisink Patent, granted in 1704, was a somewhat smaller area, but still far larger than the present town, which was given its present boundaries in 1800. Adding to the confusion is the fact that the New York - New Jersey border was previously seven or eight miles north of its present location: Minisink was once in New Jersey.
Fog surrounds cliffs looming over the Delaware River whose valley is the core of the historic Minisink region, July 2007. The Minisink or (more recently) Minisink Valley is a loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey (Sussex and Warren counties), northeastern Pennsylvania (Pike and Monroe counties) and New York (Orange and Sullivan counties).
Thomas "Maas" Swartwout (c. 1660 – c. 1723) was one of the earliest settlers of the Neversink and Delaware River Valley, early landowner in colonial America, one of seven holders of the Wagheckemeck (Minisink Region) Peenpack land patent then in Ulster County October 14, 1697 and one of seven founders with Pierre Guimard, Jacques Caudebec, Anthony & Bernardus Swartwout, David Jamison and Jan ...
The fort is named for Lt. Martinus Decker, [1] great grandson of Jan Gerritsen Decker, the first Decker to live in the Minisink Valley. [ 2 ] On July 19, 1779, during the Revolutionary War , when the settlement was known as "Peenpack", the fort was burned during a raid by pro-British Native American leader Joseph Brant .
Minisink Archeological Site, also known as Minisink Historic District, is an archeological site of 1320 acres located in both Sussex County, New Jersey and Pike County, Pennsylvania. [3] It was part of a region occupied by Munsee -speaking Lenape that extended from southern New York across northern New Jersey to northeastern Pennsylvania.
In 1800, the Town of Minisink was given its present boundaries, thirty miles southwest of Minisink Ford. During the American Revolution in 1779, Minisink Ford was the site of the Battle of Minisink , in which 40–50 settlers were killed in an engagement with a band of Iroquois and Loyalists under Mohawk chief and Colonel Joseph Brant .
Minisink is a loosely defined region of the Upper Delaware Valley in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, first settled in the 1690s. Minisink may also refer to: Minisink, New York. Minisink Valley Central School District. Minisink Valley High School; Minisink Ford, New York; Minisink Archeological Site, a Native American site ...
In 1756, those remaining in New York were placed upon lands in Schoharie County and were incorporated with the Mohawk. [ 4 ] A considerable body, the Christian Munsee , who were converted by the Moravian missionaries, [ 1 ] drew off from the rest and formed a separate organization, most of them moving to Canada during the American Revolution .