The Town of Marbletown was settled as early as 1669, but did not receive its patent until the 25th of June, 1703.  The patent was granted by Col. Henry Beekman, Capt. Thomas Garton and Capt. Charles Brodhead in trust for the inhabitants.  The trustees continued to be elected annually, until 1808.
By 1672,there were fifty-three houses on the site of the village of Marbletown, most of them log dwellings.  The surface of the town was hilly upland, broken by valleys and streams.  The Esopus flows through the northern part, while the Rondout runs through the southeast corner with a fall at High Falls.  The town, like the county, changing as a part for Olive was removed in 1823, while the part for Rosendale was in 1844.
The men, who applied for land in 1703, were Capt. Richard Brodhead, John Cock Senior, Moses DuPuy, Jeremy Kittle, Jr., Loondert Kool, William Nottingham, Gysbert Roosa, Thomas Van derMark and Richard Wilson.  Of the pre-Revolutionary houses now standing in Ulster County, the one at Stone Ridge, known as the Wynkoop Lounsbery house, was built in or before 1772, by Cornelius E. Wynkoop, Major of the Minutemen.  He was born March 4, 1746, died September 19, 1795, aged 49 years, was buried by the "new" church at Marbletown.  On August 22, 1766, he was married to Cornelia Mancius, minister of the First Dutch Reformed Church of Kingston.  General Washington spent the night here, before going on to Hurley for reseption.
After the burning of Kingston in 1777, the courts were held for a time at Marbletown, in the house of Johannis Tack, which is diagonally opposite the Wyncoop-Lounsbery house.  At this time it was a public tavern.
The Council of Saftey fled to Marbletown on Ocotber 19, three days after the invasion of Kingston.  They resumed their sessions at the house of Andrew Oliver.  After being there a month, they removed to Hurley, on the 18th of November, meeting at the house of Captain Jan Van Deusen, until the 17th when they adjourned to Poughkeepsie.
In 1672, we had fifty-three houses in the Town of Marbletown, in 1870 our population was four thousand, two hundred twenty four.  The assesed valuation of $698,825.00 on 30, 146 acres.  In 1980 census our population was four thousand nine hundred fifty-six and five thousand eight hundred fifty-four in the 2000.