 The first European settlers in the area of the present-day county arrived in 1685.They were a party of around twenty-five families from Scotland, led by David Toshach, the Laird of Monzievaird, and his brother-in-law Major Patrick McGregor, a former officer of the French Army.They settled in the Hudson Highlands at the place where the Moodna Creek enters the Hudson River, now known as New Windsor.