Talk:Mamakating, New York

History clarification?
Regarding the quote: The town of Mamakating was organized on March 7, 1788 and was the first township of Sullivan County.

Mamakating may have been the first township of Sullivan County, but 1788 it was still in Ulster County. Sullivan County didn't cleave off from Ulster until 1809. In 1788, was Mamakating the same size and shape it is today, with Frantzdale (then Homowack, now Spring Glen, nicknamed "County Line") straddling the border of Mamakating and Wawarsing?

Here's a 1758 map that shows early patents and precincts in what is now Orange County, Rockland County, parts of Sullivan and Ulster Counties, and northern New Jersey. You may have to join the group to see it, though. Back then, the size and shape was indeed different. Look in the photo album section: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocgsny/photos/album/365043629/pic/1267068899/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc

Thank you for your time, Wordreader (talk) 01:14, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Authorship of history section
The history section was added at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mamakating,_New_York&diff=103978006&oldid=74051772 showing John Masten as author. A version that looks the same is still on the historical society website with his name at the bottom. However, The WP article has been much edited and now mentions his name but not as the author. Can one assume that the above-mentioned edit adding the history was sufficient attribution? Was John the author who added his work here (thus making the current version OK without specific attribution)? That editor's contribution page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Markscheck - contains some edit summaries that suggest otherwise, e.g.
 * " 2013-01-14T15:22:33 (diff | hist) . . (+6,385)‎ . . Wurtsboro, New York ‎ (Used the official history, took out the subjective information, adding a whole new page for Wurtsboro Hills.)"

If material can be tagged "Copyright (c)2001, Michael J. Roosa and James Arnott. Reprinted by permission of the authors", as is part of that Wurtboro article, is it suitable for Wikipedia?

Robin Patterson (talk) 06:47, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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