 Many Palatines married only within the German community until the 19th century.The Palatines settled on the frontiers of New York province in Kanienkeh ("the land of the flint"), the homeland of the Five Nations of the Iroquois League (becoming the Six Nations when the Tuscarora joined the League in 1722) in what is now upstate New York, and formed a very close relationship with the Iroquois.The American historian David L. Preston described the lives of the Palatine community as being "interwoven" with the Iroquois communities.