Excerpt from The Historical Directory of Sussex County, N. J: Containing a Brief Summary of Events From Its First Settlement, With Descriptive and Historical Notices of Each Town It was in the year 1640, more than two hundred years ago, that these hardy pioneers entered the Minisink Valley, put up their log-huts on the banks of the Delaware, and soon made the fertile soil and the buried minerals contribute to their wants and their wealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.