I. - GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE

The town of New Paltz is situated in the southeastern section of the county, and is bounded as follows: on the north by the towns of Rosendale and Esopus, on the south by the towns of Gardiner and Plattekill, on the east by the towns of Rochester and Marbletown. It is irregular in outline, and has a farm area of 19, 392 acres. The population of the town, as given in the census of 1870, is 2,465.

The boundaries of the town, as described by the revised statutes, are as follows:

"The town of New Paltz shall contain all that part of said county bounded northerly by Esopus and Hurly, easterly by the bounds of the county, southerly by Marlborough, Plattekill, and Shawangunk, and westerly by the the west bounds of the New Paltz patent, continued southerly to the southwesterly corner of the same, and thence along the highest part of the precipices of steep rocks to the northwest corner of Shawangunk." - Revised Statutes, vol. i. Page 219.

The above description must be modified by the language of the act erecting Rosendale, the act erecting Lloyd, the act annexing a portion to Esopus, and by the act erecting the town of Gardiner, as fully appears in the chapters upon these several towns included in this volume.