Jeffersonville, Town of Fremont, Sullivan County, New York

From the Sullivan County Democrat, Callicoon, New York dated October 21, 2005:

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Jeffersonville - Long a Bustling Community
  The area of Sullivan County we know today as the Village of Jeffersonville
was originally settled in the 1830s and by the 1840s had become home to a
large population of German and Swiss immigrants who called their community
Winkelried.
  James Eldridge Quinlan, in his "History of Sullivan County," writes that
"in 1847, it was estimated that two hundred and fifty German families were
in Cochecton, Callicoon, and Fremont, and in 1855, the State census shows
that of the 2,649 residents of that nationality in Sullivan, 1,924 were
in those towns.  In addition to these, there were 171 from Switzerland in
Cochecton and Callicoon."
  Quinlan notes that much of the credit for the influx of German and Swiss
families to the area belonged to Monticello businessman Solomon Royce, who
had printed "large numbers of cicculars and handbills in the Grman language,
in which were set forth the advantages of settling in the northwest section
of Sullivan."

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