GREENE COUNTY 



This county is located in the southeastern part of the state 

 about halfway between New York and Albany, the Hudson 

 River forming the eastern boundary. Its area is 411,520 acres; 

 its extent from north to south is 20 miles, and from east to west 35 

 miles. The population is shown in the following table. 



Population by Townships 



(Census of 1915) 



Ashland 658 Hunter 2,944 



Athens 2,725 Jewett 1,014 



Cairo 1 ,967 Lexington 926 



Catskill * 9,021 New Baltimore 1,840 



Coxsacki." 3,453 Prattsville 887 



Durham 1.363 Windham 1,390 



Greenville 1,550 



Halcott 353 Total 30,091 



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



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



Greene County was formed from Albany and Ulster and named 

 in honor of General Xathaniel Greene of the Revolution. 



The first settlement was made in the eastern part of the county 

 at an early period by immigrants from Holland. A few Dutch 

 families from Schoharie County settled in the western part pre- 

 vious to the Revolution. During the war, being harassed by 

 Indians and Tories, they returned to Schoharie. A few small 

 i.-olated settlements were made in the interior of Greene County 

 150 years after the first settlements were made in the Hudson 

 valley. 



The great Hardenburgh patent granted by Queen Anne covered 

 nearly all that portion of the county lying west of the mountains. 

 The northern line of this grant was run at three different periods 

 near the close of the eighteenth century by three different 

 surveyors, no two of them agreeing to the width of whole farms, 



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