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In addition to later European-American migrants, the area was settled early by descendants of Lenape and other remnant groups, who eventually intermarried with Afro-Dutch and other ethnicities after the Revolutionary War.

These multiracial descendants were recognized in 1980 by the state as the Ramapough Mountain Indians ; they also have centers of population in Mahwah and Ringwood, New Jersey, which were areas of frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

For many years they lived by farming, hunting and fishing.

They tended to marry within their community until the mid-twentieth century.