Yes my Palatine family were among the lot that had their homes stolen from them in Schorie County..(Ive been there to the Stone Fort)
The Albany Five later the Albany Seven were a group of crooks who were English speaking and writing and they cheated the hard working Germans out of the lovely Dutch houses and farms they had carved out of the wilderness..
The thieves wrote to Queen Anne and claimed that the Germans were squatters on “their” land and as Anne was busy once again with another war and didn’t want to be bothered by problems in the colonies, she gave the job to one of her ministers to deal with..he sent the conmen paper deeds to the land and the Germans were driven off their own farms..
Many went down into PA but my 7th gggf is suppose to have said he was going to move up the Mohawk River so far that no white man would ever want his land and cheat him again...he took his family so far from civilization that the Monrovian missionaries mentioned him in their journals as being the man to contact for parlays with the Indians..
However it was all good...his daughter met her indentured Irish now Leatherstocking type fur trapper husband at the trading post..
Very cool!