PUTNAM COUNTY 

 This county lies in the southeastern part of the state between 

 Dutchess and Westchester, with the Hudson River forming its 

 western boundary, and the state of Connecticut lying on the east. 

 Its area is about 149,120 acres. It extends approximately 22 

 miles from east to west, and 11 miles from north to south. The 

 population is shown in the following table: 



Population by Townships 



(Census of 1915) 



Carmel* 2, 737 Putnam Valley 992 



Kent 854 Southeast 3. 102 



Patterson 1, 451 



Phillipstown 3,571 Total 12,767 



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



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



Putnam County was set off from Dutchess County in 1812 and 

 named after General Israel Putnam, under whom many of the 

 landowners therein had served during the Revolutionary War. 



In 1697 Adolph Philipse, a wealthy merchant of New York, 

 whose family already held large grants of lands in the lower 

 part of Westchester County, and were there lords of the manor, 

 received a further patent for most of the present county of 

 Putnam, generally known under the name of " Philipse Upper 

 Patent," or the " Highland Patent." That grant reached from 

 Anthony's Nose northward along the east bank of the North River 

 to the mouth of Fishkill Creek and extended eastward from the 

 river practically to the bounds of Connecticut. Just east of 

 the Philipse Patent there was at that time in dispute between 

 Connecticut and New York a narrow strip known as the " Equiva- 

 lent Lands " or the " Oblong." To so much thereof as lay within 

 the north and south lines of the Philipse Upper Patent, his heirs 

 received a further grant shortly before the Revolution. 



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