{"id":6715,"count":1,"description":"De Peyster is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, USA. The population was 998 at the 2010 census. The name is that of one of the land owners of the region, Frederic De Peyster, grandfather of John Watts de Peyster.\nThe town was first settled around 1802.\nThe town was established in 1825 from parts of the Towns of De Kalb and Oswegatchie. The town name was proposed to be \"Stilwell\" after a prominent resident, but the town was given its current name in the hope of obtaining some benefit from De Peyster.\nNewton Martin Curtis, born in the town was a postmaster, brigadier general, and customs inspector.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 45.1 square miles (117\u00a0km), of which, 43.1 square miles (112\u00a0km) of it is land and 2.0 square miles (5.2\u00a0km) of it (4.54%) is water.\nThe northeast town line is defined by the Oswegatchie River and the northwest town line is defined by Black Lake. Mud Lake is a smaller lake in the southwest of the town. The...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/de-peyster\/","name":"De Peyster","slug":"de-peyster","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/6715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}