1	Bringing It Home: NYS Curriculum Connections to Warwick Primary Documents, Maps & Folkways by Sue Gardner Historical Society of the Town of Warwick & Albert Wisner Public Library 2007
2	Studying local history: History has little meaning unless it resonates with our daily lives. Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it. --N. Scott Momaday Seeing our challenges as part of a continuum gives them meaning and gives us hope. The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. --Mark Twain Our local history echoes that of the larger culture; differences and similarities between “then” to “now” are what imbue interest. History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. --Voltaire The uniqueness of a particular scene and time is what brings the past to life.
3	Prehistory: Geology
4	Prehistory: Paleontology
5	Warwick’s Prehistory: Archaeological Evidence The Dutchess Quarry Caves & the Drowned Lands
6	Prehistoric remains found in the Dutchess Quarry Caves
7	Warwick’s Prehistory: Archaeological Evidence
8	A Few of Warwick’s Native American Sites
9	Primary Document: Indian Deed of March 5, 1702-03
10	Primary Document: Early European Settlement Deposition of David Davis Relative to Maratanza Pond, Ulster County From the Cadwallader Colden Papers, Vol. 7 Published in “Collections of the New York Historical Society” For the year 1923 p. 55-56 “David Davis being Duely Sworn Deposeth and Saith that he is 75 years of age—that in the Year 1712 he Lived at Warwick in Orange County With Captain Aske—that at that time a Great Number of Indians Lived there that he often heard the Indians Speak of a Pond on the Mountain between the Drownded Land & Minisink which they called as he thinks Camallo—that some time after being in Company with Lawrance Decker who understood the Indian Language and Some Indians & mentioning the Name of the Pond the Indians & Decker Laugh’d upon which this Deponan(t) asked Decker what they Laugh’d when Decker said it was at the Name of the Pond which Signify a Place where Young Indians & their Wives Mett & made Merry—that in Perticular an Indian Called George who Could talk English….” (further details about dispute over pond omitted) [August 27, 1765]
11	Primary Document: The King’s Highway “Certificate of Laying Out of a King’s Road – 40 Rods Wide” Recorded at the request of Messrs. Thomas Smith and William Mapes, Commissioners for the Precinct of Goshen, this 29th day of October, 1736. November 20th 1735, at the request of Msrs. Benjamin Ask, Thomas Dekey, Richard Buell, Thomas Wright, Lawrence Decker, Joseph Perry and others of Wawayanda in Orange County, in the Province of New York, we have laid out a certain King’s Road of forty rod wide, beginning at or near the corner of Mr. Vincent Matthew’s Improved Land at or by Goshen road; thence running as the Old road runs about two rods to the north of Mr. Gold Smith house and thence along to a certain place to the Otterkill by a butter nut tree standing in the Loe Land; then from the butter nut tree over the brook up the Valley to the old path or road and so along the old roads to Cromelines Creek; then along the creek on the west side of the creek though the fence as the old road formerly went to the house of the said Cromlines; then along the south side of the swamp running to the old road. Then along the old road on the north side of Joseph Perry’s fence & so along the old Road to Lawrence Decker’s house on the south side of the house; along the side of the hill over the Crossway; then along the old Road through Thomas Blains fence on the South side of his house and so over the Bridge; then along the road as it goes to Abraham Wintfield house on the south side of the said house; then along the Old Wagon road tell it come near the Duble kill; then directly to the intended Bridges over the Duble Kill; then along on a strait course to the house where young Jacob Decker lives on the south side of the said house; then along the road that runs to Gold’s Plantation over the said Kill till it comes near the house of Thomas Dekey house; then running from the said road northward over the creek or run and so along the north side of the said Thomas Dekey’s barn & so to his house. (Signed) Tho Smith, William Mapes Recorded, Liber B. page 483, October 29, 1736, Orange County Records.”
12	Primary Document: Colonial Era Map (1776) Colonial Migrations & Culture, Land Claims, French & Indian War
13	Primary Document: Colonial Era Map (This map was drawn in 1776 from prior surveys)
14	Colonial Road Corridors: Opportunities for Growth
15	Colonial Roads Few major land routes Main roads went through New York City Secondary route through Goshen/Warwick. Colonial growth leads to problems with the English government. It becomes necessary to avoid New York City during the War.
16	Iron Act Closes Lawrence Scrawley/Crowley’s Forge in Bellvale
17	Some Colonial & Revolutionary Era Inns of Warwick Francis Baird’s Tavern, built 1766 on the King’s Highway
18	Sterling Iron Works: British Invasion Halted by Local Iron January 14, 1778 “…Your committee, who were sent to ascertain the place for fixing a chain and erecting fortifications for obstructing the navigation of Hudson’s river, beg leave to report… From these considerations, the committee are led to conclude that the most proper place to obstruct the navigation of the river is at West Point..” Jno. Sloss Hobart,Henry Wisner,John Hathorn,Zepha. Platt [Included as note, Public Papers of George Clinton Vol. II No. 1021]
19	Primary Documents: Revolutionary Era Visitors to Warwick George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 5 Financial Papers (Washington stopped at Warwick) by Jonathan Trumbull Jr., July, 1782, Revolutionary War Accounts, Vouchers, and Receipted Accounts 2 Other visitors included: May 20, 1779: “This morning the weather still continued rainy necessity obliged us to continue the march, the traveling is extremely bad, and 9 o’clock made a halt at a small village called Warwick, NY, six miles. Here we took breakfast at Baird’s Tavern, from whence we proceeded on the march to Hardiston, NJ 7 miles .”These troops were on the march to join Gen. Sullivan’s expedition against the Indians. Oct. 20, 1779: 3d Regiment Continental Line, Capt. Phillip Du Bois Beiver & Lieut. Frees Dec. 6, 1782 the Marquis de Chastellux, part of the French delegation. Other records of visitors
20	John Hathorn: Warwick’s Revolutionary Militia Leader
21	Revolutionary Era Local Militia, Battles, Tories Primary Documents: General Hathorn’s Report on the Battle of Minisink Hathorn and Wisner’s letters to Gov. Clinton Washington’s letter regarding mail route Salt shortages in Florida Warwick militia testifies against 13 Tories Hathorn reports on movements of the enemy Secondary Documents/ Oral Tradition Boston Tea Party Witness Burgoyne’s Army at Warwick Pursuit of Tories Report of Hathorn on Regiment Feud of Tory vs. Whig Henry Wisner of the Continental Congress Some Revolutionary War Sites in Warwick Defense of the Hudson
22	Warwick in 1805 from Memoirs of Henry Pelton
23	Primary Document: Memoirs of Henry Pelton In 1872 Henry Pelton wrote down his memories of Warwick, as it was when he arrived in 1805, which included a sketch of who lived where and other memories of the area. As we look at the map created from his descriptions by Elizabeth Van Duzer we can see: Roads of the colonial era are still recognizable today. There was a significant population already in the Town (3,747 in 1790) Environmental features such as stream beds were already being changed; the swampy areas of the Wawayanda Creek were already proving a source of health problems. Memories of Native Americans were being carried forward in oral tradition, but were often fragmentary.
24	Henry William Herbert: Species Change and Human Actions
25	Slavery in Warwick
26	Preludes to the Civil War: William Henry Seward
27	Advocate for Women’s Rights: Dr. Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck 1827-1910
28	Railroad Links Warwick to Markets & Travel Destinations
29	Railroad Links Warwick to Markets: Coal Fields of Pennsylvania to New England Travel Destinations: NYC, Boston, Washington, Etc. Primary Document: Railroad Timetable
30	1875 Map: Hamlet Life--Expansion & Inventions