West Camp (Newton) is given in translation by Benjamin Myer Brink, in his History of Saugerties, as follows :

Know traveller, under this stone rests, beside his Sibylla Charlotte, a real traveller, of the High Dutch in North America their Joshua, and a pure Lutheran preacher of the same on the east and west side of the Hudson River. His first arrival was with Lord Lovelace in 1709, the first of January. His second with Col. Hunter, 17 10, the fourteenth of June. The journey of his soul to Heaven on St. John's day 17 19, interrupted his return to England. Do you wish to know more ? Seek in Melancthon's Fatherland who was Kocherthal, who Harschias, who Winchenbach ?

Through vSatigerties and along that shore of the river, in the eighteenth century, a tri-weekl}^ mail from New York to Albany was carried by a post-rider on horseback, and this mail, we may suppose, was never burdensome enough to distress his horse. But now we ma}^ turn our attention again for a while to the eastern shore of the stream. We find ourselves in what may be known as the land of the Livingstons. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts points out that

in the assembly of 1759, consisting of twenty-seven members, no less than four Livingstons sat: Philip for New York, WiUiam for the Manor, and Robert and Henry for Dutchess. By alHance by marriage with the Schuylers and the Jays, and by its wealth, the Livingston family held a pre-eminence rarely equalled in this country.