 Close to 850 families settled in the Hudson River Valley, primarily in what are now Germantown and Saugerties, New York.They produced stores for the Navy in work camps on each side of the Hudson.In 1723, 100 heads of families from the work camps were the first Europeans to acquire land west of Little Falls, New York, in present-day Herkimer County on both the north and south sides along the Mohawk River.