In 1768 the sixty-year struggle to open the lands of the Kayaderosseras Patent north of Albany for settlement was finally resolved.
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There they began their new life on the frontier, soon to be interrupted by the American Revolution.
This is the story of the families that left their homesteads in Connecticut and moved to Middleline Road in Ball\'s Town, in the Patent.
The long conflict with France was over, and disputes over ownership rights with the local Mohawk Indians had been settled.
In 1768 the sixty-year struggle to open the lands of the Kayaderosseras Patent north of Albany for settlement was finally resolved