Colonial lifestyles; slavery
Slavery in Warwick
Slavery was not confined to the southern states,  Many people in Warwick owned a slave or two, until New York State abolished the practice in 1827.
We know about Warwick’s slaves from stories written down in Under Old Rooftrees, from records of slave births and manumissions kept by the Town government, and from documents like this runaway notice by Garret Post, who at one time owned the Shingle House on Forester Ave.
•Slavery in New York
•Transcription of Warwick book of slave births and manumissions
 Newspaper ad from the Orange County Patriot 3/11/1817
By 1720, 5,740 enslaved individuals lived in the colony of New York (16% of the total population) and about half that number lived in New Jersey. By the mid-1700s slavery was deeply entrenched in New York. In 1750, the enslaved population of New York was 11,014 (14% of the total population), nearly double the figure of 1720. It would be another fifty years before the number of enslaved Africans began to decrease rather than increase.

There is a series of books about the genealogy of Orange County black families by Robert Brennan.