The second paragraph of Justice Francis J. Swayze's Sesqui-Centennial of Sussex County Address..... THE MINISINK AND OTHER PATENTS In addition to the large grant in New York known as the Minisink patent of which I have already spoken, another large grant was made along the boundary line to the southeast of the Minisink Patent, and is known as the Waywayanda Patent. In 1724, 1,200 acres of this land were conveyed to Colonel Thomas DeKAY, of the City of New York. A portion of it is still in the ownership of his lineal descendant, Henry B. DeKAY. Col. DeKay did not remove immediately from the city of New York; for in 1733 he was alderman of the o?t ward of that city, but he must have come shortly afterward, and the date ascribed to his settlement, the first authentic date for the settlement of Vernon township, is 1734. Within a few years thereafter, Petrus DECKER in 1742 had settled at what is known as the Borough of Sussex, which for a long time bore the name of its first settler. This is the earliest settlement of which I have knowledge within the township of Wantage, but I am told that in 1739 taxes were imposed by Orange county upon property in Wantage for the cost of building the Goshen jail, and a deed from James ALEXANDER to Johannis Dirckse WESTBROOK for the Woobourne mill property, dated March 20, 1753 recites that the Proprietors in 1746 had agreed to give him 3 acres for a garden if he would thereon erect a mill for the convenience of the inhabitants, and that he had erected the mill in accordance with the contract; this land on the west branch of the Papakating was therefore conveyed to him for the use of his mill and garden spot for the annual rental of one ear of Indian corn yearly, if demanded on the premises. The recitals in this deed prove that in 1746 there was sufficient population in the neighborhood of Woodbourne to require a mill and to justify the Proprietors making a donation of land for the convenience of the inhabitants and incidently no doubt for the encouragement of other settlers and prospective purchasers of land. Have Fun, Cathy DiPietro, listowner NJSussex-L