Editing Minisink, New York (section)

==History==

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Historically, the name Minisink, which dates to the mid 17th century, has applied to a much larger area than the current town, running as far north as [[Minisink Ford, New York|Minisink Ford]], twenty miles northwest of present-day Minisink, south to the [[Delaware Water Gap]], thirty miles southwest of present-day Minisink, and from the [[Kittatinny Ridge]] to the east to the [[Pocono Mountains]] to the west (See [http://www.minisink.org/patent.html]). 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.

First settled by Europeans around 1725, the jurisdiction was organized by Americans as a town in 1788 following the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]].  In the following decades, the Town of Minisink lost territory to newer towns: [[Deerpark, New York|Deerpark]] (1798), [[Wawayanda, New York|Wawayanda]] (1849), and [[Greenville, Orange County, New York|Greenville]] (1853). In 1871, the community of [[Unionville, Orange County, New York|Unionville]] set itself off from the town by incorporating as a village.