I have been researching the local history of Warwick, New York, for a number of years. One project is transcribing articles, that I think important, from Warwick's two local papers. Regarding Wawayanda Patent. The name of Florida was officially given to this populated, industrial area in the 1760s. Wawayanda Town Clerk Teresa PiercePO Box 106Slate Hill, NY 10973Phone: 845-355-5700Email: tpierce10958@yahoo.comThe Town Clerk has the records of birth, death, or marriage for the town. A History of the Minisink Region: Which Includes the Present Towns of Minisink, Deerpark, Mount Hope, Greenville, and Wawayanda in Orange County, New York ; from Their Organization and First Settlement to Their Present Time ; Also Including, a General History of the First Settlement of the County: Author: Charles E. Stickney: Publisher Slate Hill is one of the eight hamlets found in the town of Wawayanda, New York.It is home to the Minisink Valley Central School District.Slate Hill is found in Orange County, New York, one of the fastest-growing counties in the state. The history of the farm at Meadowburn begins in the 1750’s when William Willet DeKay, one of the sons of Col. Thomas DeKay, built the small homestead that is still a part of the main house today. Ridgebury, New York is one of the eight Hamlets in the town of Wawayanda, New York.The hamlet and its township are located in Orange County, New York, approximately 65 miles north of New York City.. Wawayanda Town Clerk Teresa PiercePO Box 106Slate Hill, NY 10973Phone: 845-355-5700Email: tpierce10958@yahoo.comThe Town Clerk has the records of birth, death, or marriage for the town. A history of the Minisink region : which includes the present towns of Minisink, Mount Hope, Greenville and Wawayanda, in Orange County, New York ; from their organization and first settlement to the present time ; also, including a general history of the first settlement of the county His father earlier had bought 1,200 acres in the area, part of the original Wawayanda Patent, swapping some land in New York City. This Wawayanda Patent, containing over 150,000 acres, is the basis of ownership of land in central Orange County, which was granted March 5, 1703 and confirmed in the then usual manner by Royal Authority during the reign of Queen Anne. A history of the Minisink region; which includes the present towns of Minisink, Deerpark, Mount Hope, Greenville and Wawayanda, in Orange County Cornell University Library . The community's name originally was spelled "Ridgeberry", so named for the berries which grew on the ridge upon which the town site is located. Welcome Visitors. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. In a grant of land, called the Wawayanda Patent of 1703, a large area was called the Florida Tract. The area known as "Wawayanda" by the Minsis, after the winding stream and its adjacent land, was vaguely described in the grant as "vacant land". A hamlet located at the intersection of two free-flowing streams in the early 1700s was originally named Brookland. The Wawayanda Patent was a land grant in colonial New York.