DELAWARE COUNTY 



This county lies in the southern part of the state at the head- 

 waters of the Delaware River. The area is 927,360 acres. The 

 county extends approximately 38 miles from north to south and 

 49 miles from cast to west. The population is distributed, through- 

 out the county as follows: 



Population nv Cities and Townships 



(Census of 1915) 



Andes 2,084 Masonville 988 



Bovina 867 Meredith 1,472 



Colchester 3,250 Middletown 4,026. 



Davenport 1,393 Roxbury 2,318 



Delhi * 2,852 Sidney 4,215 



Deposit 1,645 Stamford 2,343 



Franklin 2,222 Tompkins 1,919 



Hamden 1,387 Walton 5,275 



Hancock 4.908 



Harpersfield 1,223 Total 45,995 



Kortright 1,608 - 



* Delhi, in the town of Delhi, is the county seat. 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



Delaware County was formed from Ulster and Otsego in 1797. 

 It was named from the Delaware River, which derives its name 

 from Lord Delaware. The Mohicans, sometimes called the 

 Delaware Indians, frequented this section on hunting excursions, 

 establishing camps which remained fixed for months, but no 

 part of the present county was ever the permanent home of the 

 Indians. However, this right to rove the forests, in the opinion of 

 the savages, gave them an ownership in territory. 



"When the great Hardenherg Patent was granted by Queen Anne 

 in 1708 it was required of the patentees that they must extinguish 

 the Indian titles. In doing this there arose a controversy as to 

 whether the tract lying between the east and west branches of the 

 Delaware River was included in the sale. The dispute was settled 

 by the purchase of the territory from the Indians for the sum of 

 £149 19s. A later dispute as to the western boundary to which 

 white settlements might extend was settled by a treaty signed at 

 Fort Stanwix, 1768, by Sir William Johnson and representatives 



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