This is a photo of a pin I found in my yard in about 1960 while digging in my garden. It shows the New Jersey state emblem with the date 1776 in the center and Bellvale, New Jersey in the blue area around the edges. Since I started researching Bellvale I found that there had been many conflicts over the border between NY and NJ. In an excellent article by Henry Pelton in the Warwick Historic Papers on page 32, Mr Pelton states: " that the Old Jersey Claim Line appears to have crossed Sterling Lake, leaving Greenwood Lake entirely in New Jersey, passed somewhere between the residences of W.F. Wheeler(now the Peach Grove Inn) and B. B. Sayer(stone house on RT.17A opposite Hickory Hill Park entrance).

For more information asbout the boundary dispute check the Albert Wisner Library Site-go to the Warwick Valley History page and check out the Warwick History Database section. It contains so much information!