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"'The Minisink country' consists of the valley of the Neversink, west of the Shawangunk Mountains, and the Delaware valley, as far as the Delaware Water gap," an area that today occupies a portion of Orange County, New York; Sussex County, New Jersey; and Pike County, Pennsylvania. Its original inhabitants were of Dutch, French, and English origins, a number of whom came to the Minisink Valley from the vicinity of Kingston, New York. The work at hand, published originally by The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and translated and transcribed by the great genealogist Royden Vosburgh, outlines the history of the Dutch Reformed churches of the region and its ministers. These churches are today situated in places like Deer Park and Port Jervis, New York; Flatbrookville and Montague, New Jersey; and Dingmans and Bushkill, Pennsylvania. The bulk of the work, of course, lists the various birth, baptismal, or marriage records of the four principal Dutch Reformed churches: Minisink-Machackemeck, Minisink, Machackemeck, and Walpeck. For the most part the birth and baptismal records, which are most prevalent, divulge the date of the respected event, the names of the child and parents, and the names of witnesses (if any). The marriages indicate the names of the bride and groom, their place of birth and residence at the time of the ceremony, place of residence following the marriage, date of marriage, and sometimes the name of the officiating minister or a kinsman. In all, this rich resource identifies 4,500 persons who inhabited the Minisink Valley between 1716 and 1830.