Samuel J. Clark, aged 7 years, died August 17, 1825. Harvey H. Clark, of Greenville, was elected Town Clerk of that town in 1855, 1859 and 1860; also, Supervisor of that town in 1865 and 1866. W. L. Clark was Town Clerk of the same town in 1856, and Alfred L. Clark in 1857. Whether originally of one common ancestry or not, we do not know. DECKER. This family has also representatives in Greenville and Wawayanda. The different branches are probably directly or remotely connected with Isaac Decker, who settled near Ridgebury in the year 1800. Dewitt Decker, Esq., (of another family) was elected Supervisor of Minisink in 1860 and again in 1861. His son, Mr. Henry D. Decker, was elected Town Clerk in 1864, 1865 and 1866. MEMBER OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS FROM MINISINK. ORGANIZATION IN 1788 TO 1866. The first Town Meeting was held at the house of John Van Tyle, April, 1789. 1820-Joshua Sayre. 1821-David Christie. 1822-Benjamin Dunning. 1823-Benjamin Dunning. 1824 Increase B.Stoddard. 1825-David Christie. 1826-David Christie. 1827-David Christie. 1828-David Christie. 1829-James Hulse. 1830-James Hulse. 1831-Hulet Clark. 1832-Merit H. Cash. 1833-Merit H. Cash. Hulet Clark. James Hulse. Martin L. Mapes. James Hulse. James Hulse. Joseph Davis. Merit H. Cash. Merit H. Cash. David H. Slawson. David H. Slawson. John C. Owen. 1834-Joseph Davis. 1835-Isaac Cook. 1836-Isaac Cook. 1837-Isaac Cook. 1838-Gideon W. Cock, Sr. 1839-Gideon W. Cock, Sr. Roswell Mead. Roswell Mead. Richard M. Tuthill. Richard M. Tuthill, Jr. Dewitt C. Hallock, 1840-Roswell Mead. 1841-Roswell Mead. 1842-John C. Wisner. 1843-John C. Wisner. 1844-Joseph Davis. 1845-Gabriel Horton. 1846-Gabriel Horton. 1847-Stewart T. Durland. 1848-Stewart T. Durland. 1849-Daniel Fullerton. 1850-Timothy Wood. 1851-Hulet Clark. 1852-Hulet Clark. 1853-Hulet Clark. 1854-Albert A. Seymour. 1855-Albert A. Seymour. 1856-Joseph M. Case. 1857-Joseph M. Case. 1858-John C. Wisner. 1859-John C. Wisner. 1860-Dewitt Decker. Erastus Stickney. Henry H. Stewart. Henry C. Halsey. 1861-Dewitt Decker. 1862-Joseph M. Case. 1863-Joseph M. Case. 1864-Joseph M. Case. Henry D. Decker. 1865-Joseph M. Case. Henry D. Decker. 1866-Joseph M. Case. Henry D. Decker. The number of acres of land assessed in the town in 1865, was 14,045; assessed value thereof, $512,209, or about $36 47 per acre; personal property, $140,989. CHAPTER XI.. TOWN OF DEERPARK. In 1798 the county of Rockland was set off from Orange by act of the legislature; and in order to maintain the size of Orange county, five towns from Ulster were incorporated into its limits, making it of its prèsent dimensions. The present town of Deerpark was thus formed principally from the town of Mamakating, in Ulster county. Eager says the name arose from the following circumstance: A man by the name of McDaniel, one of the early settlers, owned a small tract of land somewhere within its limits, which he enclosed with a fence made of brush and small trees lopped together. Some of his neighbors to ridicule it called it McDaniel's "deer-park;" and the name became so familiar that the whole vicinity soon went by the same cognomen by which the town is now known. The most of the town is included in the limits of the old Minisink patent, which also covers a large portion of the town of Minisink, in conjunction with the Wawayanda patent. As has been made known in the previous chapters of this work, this portion of Orange was one of the earliest settled; the fertile valleys of the Delaware and Neversink attracting attention from the very first visitors of that region. In 1800, two years after the formation of the town of Deerpark, it had a popu |