Besides the cemeteries connected with the churches, there are a
number of family burial places in the town; notably those of the
Manning, Seybolt, Seeley, Courtright, Vanbuskirk, Mulock, Remey and
Jenks families.
MISCELLANEOUS.
During the Civil War the town issued in August, 1864, bonds for
$25,159; they were all paid by February 11th, 1871.
Its officials have from the formation of the town proved worthy men.
It has been universally Democratic by a small majority.
Nathaniel Reeves Quick, justice of the peace from 1868 to 1873, was
a tall pleasant man, a descendant of the Quick family of
Pennsylvania. He was well posted on the history of the famous Tom
Quick, who was a member of the same family. The traditions which Mr.
Quick, of Greenville, had instilled into his mind from accounts
handed down to him by his grandfather, no doubt truthful, were not
altogether complimentary to the old Indian hunter. His grandfather
said (told by Nathaniel R. himself), that Tom, when hard pressed for
something to eat, would come to his house and stay till the good
housewife would absolutely refuse to cook for him any longer, and his
grandfather would inform Tom that he must either go to work or leave.
That, he said, always started him, for if there was anything in this
world that Tom hated it was to work. Then he would shoulder his gun
and tramp off in the forest for two or three months before he
ventured to show himself again at the house. In truth, his
grandfather did not put much dependence on the stories told by Tom
of his adventures, because he thought Tom was merely whiling the time
away with something to wheedle him with, in fact, a sort of "stand
off" for lodging.
The old Goshen and Minisink turnpike road of the last century,
crossing Shawangunk Mountain just west of Greenville village, was
changed by the State to a macadam road constructed or, nearly so, in
1907. It takes a new route across the mountain and has greatly
reduced the grade. The Goshen end of the road to Dolsentown was
completed a few years ago, and the one from Dolsentown through
Wawayanda and Minisink to the State line about two years ago. The new
road through Greenville connects with the Wawayanda line at Slate
Hill.
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