What nickname was given to the original Dutch settlers of New York?
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Monroe, New York six men and one woman. Cheesecocks as a precinct included all of present day Monroe, Woodbury, Tuxedo, and Stony Point (Monroe New York). Many of the patentees never saw the land they bought or were given. Many of the new settlers to come with the Cheesecocks Patent were Dutch and English. Both groups of settlers came from Long Island to this unknown land for its rich natural resources. The original name for the area on the Ramapo River surveyed by General Washington's geographer and surveyor Robert Erskine was Smith's Mill, described by Erskine as being "on a sudden bend of