Editing Staatsburg, New York (section)

==History==
Staatsburg was part of the Pawling-Staats land patent, one of many granted by the English colonial government in the 1690s with the intention of encouraging more colonials to settle in the sparsely populated Hudson Valley. The original patent was made to Henry Pawling.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/culturallandscap00odon O'Donnell, Patricia, "Cultural Landscape Report for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Volume II: Treatment," 1992, 5.]</ref> Subsequently, a large portion of the patent was purchased by Dr. Samuel Staats, a surgeon of Dutch origins who resided in New York City.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NZx3gehXILIC "Collections on the History of Albany from its Discovery to the Present Time, with Notices of its Public Institutions and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased, Vol. IV"] (J. Munsell, Albany, NY, 1871), 168.</ref> He and Dirck Vanderburgh bought it for 130 pounds from Pawling's widow. As a result of the combination of their names, the area came to be known as "Staatsburgh".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hydeparkny.us/Community/ |title=History - Hyde Park, NY |access-date=2012-08-28 |archive-date=2012-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728121755/http://www.hydeparkny.us/Community/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The concluding "h" in the name appears to have been dropped in 1890 as part of the [[United States Board on Geographic Names]]' standardization efforts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/|title = U.S. Board on Geographic Names}}</ref>