Cushetunk was the Indian name given to the Upper Delaware River valley which stretches for about five miles in each direction from the present town of Cochecton, New York. The Nathan Skinner Manuscript is a detailed source of genealogical, historical, and anecdotal information about the pioneer and Revolutionary War days from 1754 to 1783 in Cochecton/Cushetunk. In 1850, James Eldridge Quinlan, a junior editor for The Republican Watchman in Monticello, New York, began writing a series of columns on the history of the Cochecton region, using for his main resource the memory and written lore of...